Scattershots – 15jun23

George Rebane

The latest liberal lies involve their claims of book banning, specifically by Gov Desantis in Florida school libraries.  The lamestream has worked hard and successfully to convince the nation that the Right is the party of book banners.  However, the truth of the matter is that even  in their posterchild state of Florida, no books have been banned in school libraries – they were simply mover from shelves designated for the lower grades to ones for middle grades and above.  The DNC and their lamestream correctly assess their ideological constituencies to be sufficiently ignorant to believe this latest propaganda.  In the 15jun23 Union, columnist Terry McLaughlin gives us the real story of how such books containing sexually explicit content are actually made available to Florida’s public school students.

Today Rick Howell, one of our local Left’s more prominent looney luminaries, takes sometime Union columnist Thea Hood to task on her 10jun23 essay on ‘wokeness’.  Leftwingers with prominent intellectual deficits continue to deny the progressives’ ongoing use of woke as an important socio-political attribute that describes correct-thinking Americans.  Howell follows in the footsteps of Robert Summa who as regional editor oversaw the most recent ownership transfer of The Union.  Last year Mr Summa, now recalled, went overboard when he denied Jo Ann’s discussion of woke in a letter she wrote.  Summa claimed that woke was a rightwing concept not known to the Left and used only by the Right to denigrate the good works of Democrats and their constituents.  And he maintained this ridiculous position in the face of a dozen books and countless commentaries written on the definition of woke and its practice in the public sphere.

Comments

[Gregory]

Perhaps more descriptive titles would help... for example, call "Gender Queer", "My First Gay Blowjob" instead.

"Woke" was used enthusiastically by the Left until the Right and Center and Center-Left caught on and started laughing.

[Scott O]

Yeah - the Dems are up to their old BS. The only way they can deal with DeSantis is to lie about him. He isn't attacking gays and trannies, just protecting children. Joy Reid came up with quite a whopper - claimed DeSantis won't allow black history to be taught.
At my high school library we could read several different magazines, but Playboy was never among them. Gasp! Censorship! I don't recall any Dems screaming that Playboy mag was being "banned" in California.
The way to shut down the left's BS is to simply call their bluff. When ever you hear some one claim Florida is banning books, ask them for the name of a title of a book that you can't buy in Florida because of DeSantis. Then ask if Amazon will carry all titles currently being published. Oops.

[Don Bessee]

HAHA! -

Crenshaw grills Dem witness over failure to name one study citing benefits of surgeries for trans kids
'Name one study,' Crenshaw told Yale School of Medicine assistant professor Meredithe McNamara

"Totally agree," the Texas congressman told McNamara. "It's good to look at systematic reviews, right? That's the gold standard of evidence when you're trying to understand whether something works or it doesn't. The British Journal of Medicine looked at 61 systematic reviews with the conclusion that, quote, ‘There is great uncertainty about the effects of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries in young people.’ The Journal of the Endocrine Society came up with the same conclusion, even the American Academy of Pediatrics. They all cite the lack of evidence."

"If you're doing a therapy, and it's, you know, temporary, fine, whatever, maybe let's try it and see if it works," he continued. "But when you're talking about permanent physiological changes, do you not agree, just from an ethical standpoint, that you might want extremely strong evidence of the benefits? There's no systematic review that states that there's strong evidence of benefits."

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/crenshaw-grills-dem-witness-failure-name-one-study-citing-benefits-surgeries-trans-kids

;-)

[D. Pecker, Enquirer]

Question: did Terry McLaughlin travel to Florida to verify her claims?

https://www.verifythis.com/article/news/verify/education-verify/desantis-banned-book-claim-fact-check/536-45201eb2-7f37-43a8-a494-4123510d3db6

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Scotto: 'Then ask if Amazon will carry all titles currently being published."

My proxy for Amazon (and other online bookstore) censorship is Alexander Dugin books.

The State seems to have decided that those are verboten, although finding books *about* him is easy-peasy.

To be fair, it could simply be that publishers are not allowed to actually print them, but that shouldn't stop the Kindle biz.

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re: censorship in the era of the book-selling oligopolies.

There's probably a newsletter that could be made out of this. My bet is that you don't only see the results of the currently-dominant Leftist hivemind at work, but also other special interest groups.

As a political concept, the natural countermove is to compare Amazon/B&N/Powell's with K-12 libraries and the war over deshelving (or upshelving to older classrooms) books on gay (never straight) sex. They aren't comparable situations, but that never stopped anybody.

[Scott O]

Speaking of books you aren't supposed to read -
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/06/power-line-u-is-back-with-a-plague-of-models-banned-by-amazon.php
For that reason alone, I'm ordering it.
It's available on Alibris.
Lord only knows what reason Amazon has for banning the book from its system.