{"id":20528,"date":"2023-12-13T12:56:23","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T19:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=20528"},"modified":"2023-12-13T12:56:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T19:56:23","slug":"what-is-allowed-and-what-isnt-by-this-they-shall-be-known","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2023\/12\/13\/what-is-allowed-and-what-isnt-by-this-they-shall-be-known\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Allowed And What Isn&#8217;t, By This They Shall Be Known"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Purported \u201cbook bans\u201d are all the social justice rage these day. So much so that one of the newly sworn in members of the Central Buck school board swore on\u2026 a stack of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillyburbs.com\/story\/news\/local\/2023\/12\/05\/karen-smith-sworn-in-central-bucks-banned-books-bucks-county-lgbtq-school-board-pa\/71813461007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">banned books<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cSmith stood out at the Dec. 4 reorganization meeting as she took her oath of office with her hand placed on top of six frequently banned and challenged books. Smith, who would be named president of the board, and the other Democrats on the board have long cried foul as the former GOP-majority forged ahead with controversial library policy that critics said was a defacto book ban.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Ah yes, books so banned that the board member was free to bring them in and swear her oath on them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Notice the weasel words. \u00a0 In fact no book was banned. One book was removed from a <em>display<\/em> due to a political\/social neutrality policy and was returned the next day. \u00a0 One book was opposed because it had sexually explicit material. Other books were included by the school board member simply because an anti-Woke parents group opposed them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Oh, but it\u2019s all about being against censorship and not banning any view or belief, right?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20529\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/strait-pride-flag.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Compare and contrast books that many parents find objectionable to be given to young children with this school in Colorado that <em>literally banned<\/em> the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/father-sues-school-district-refusing-display-straight-pride-flag-alongside-progress-pride-flag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Straight Pride<\/a>\u201d flag while flying the \u201cProgress Pride\u201d flag.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cA Colorado father is suing the state\u2019s largest school district, claiming staff refused to let him display a \u2018straight pride\u2019 flag alongside the Progress Pride flags on view throughout his children\u2019s Denver school.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cNathan Feldman argues his children are being barred from exercising their freedom of speech in a case of viewpoint discrimination.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cFeldman\u2019s lawyer, Michael Yoder, blamed equity policies like Denver\u2019s for \u2018the overt sexualization of content in elementary schools nationwide.\u2019 Progress Pride flags and gender identity books geared toward young children encourage students to ask about them and foster one-sided conversation around inappropriate topics in the classroom, he said.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Further:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xfS8V0-QwWQ?si=wSD7CS59cSB64rUD\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Sadly, this isn\u2019t hypocrisy, but rather the intolerance exploiting the tolerance of others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/muaddib.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8772\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/muaddib.png 800w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/muaddib-300x196.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"What Is Allowed And What Isn't, By This They Shall Be Known\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Purported 'book bans' are all the social justice rage these day.  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So much so that one of the newly sworn in members of the Central Buck school board swore on\u2026 a stack of \u201cbanned books\u201d. \u201cSmith stood out at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2023\/12\/13\/what-is-allowed-and-what-isnt-by-this-they-shall-be-known\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,17],"tags":[55,24,48],"class_list":["post-20528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-progressives","tag-gender","tag-leviathan","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20530,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20528\/revisions\/20530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}