Conservative 'Moms for Liberty' enraged after Brevard County teacher raises $5k for 'banned book' dr

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Conservative 'Moms for Liberty' enraged after Brevard County teacher raises $5k for 'banned book' drive

By Meaghan Ellis, AlterNet
Published June 02, 2022

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A teacher is Brevard County, Fla., is raising money in an effort to get banned booked back into the hands of students.

According to Florida Today, Adam Tritt, an advanced placement English teacher at Bayside High, launched the fundraiser in hopes of purchases challenged reading material like "The Slaughterhouse-Five" for his students' summer reading requirements. However, the list of books quickly drew backlash from critics.

Per Florida Today:

https://www.rawstory.com/conservative-moms-for-liberty-enraged-after-brevard-county-teacher-raises-5k-for-banned-book-drive/


Moms for Liberty.... I can I use another acronym for MfL.....

[RKP5637]

1. 'Moms for Liberty' neeeds psychological profiles done on them!!! Likely interesting findings. n/t

[DBoon]

2. From Florida Today original article

https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/education/2022/05/31/moms-liberty-criticizes-banned-book-drive-brevard-teacher/9925288002/

Moms for Liberty has challenged 41 books in Brevard libraries, saying the books contain sexual content not meant for children. The chapter’s decision to challenge "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut sparked outrage from teachers and community members; the chapter said some of the books it has challenged may be appropriate for some high school students, but the district should reevaluate which age levels access the challenged works.
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“If they're 15 or 16, these books are geared toward that age,” Tritt said. “You could be seventh or eighth grade and read, ‘Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret,’ But I wanted to have parents there so there will be supervision.”

Tritt will focus on a few books that the Brevard chapter of Moms for Liberty challenged, plus a few he thinks are soon to follow. "Slaughterhouse-Five" will be the main focus, he said. He will also seek out copies of "Forever" by Judy Blume, "Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky, "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini, "All Boys Aren’t Blue" by George Matthew Johnson and "This Book is Gay" by Juno Dawson.

Two graphic novels, "Genderqueer: A Memoir" by Maia Kobabe and "Maus" by Art Spiegelman, are also included. "Genderqueer" is a memoir of Kobabe’s reckoning with gender and sexuality that Brevard Public Schools removed from libraries in October because it included sexual illustrations. "Maus" is a Pulitzer-winning graphic novel retelling the author’s parents’ accounts of surviving The Holocaust; it was removed from classrooms by a Tennessee school board in January for including swear words and a drawing of breasts.

[Diamond_Dog]

3. Liberty?

What a misnomer.

Yeah, “Liberty” to impose my narrow minded racist bigoted beliefs onto everyone else.

[Martin Eden]

9. That was my first thought.

Banning books is the opposite of Liberty.

George Orwell was a prophet

[andym]

4. Traditionalism redux

similar attitudes about books mocked here in the "Music Man"

[gratuitous]

5. You know, Moms for Liberty . . .

If you spent more time reading books than banning books, you wouldn't be so easily outsmarted. But then, you might not want to ban books if you were even a little smarter. That's quite the conundrum.

Also, you know that if you fundraise off your humiliation, you'll be great big hypocrites.

[Ninga]

6. Do not underestimate mom's for liberty!

They are led by a very articulate strong Cuban woman, who is a mother of teenagers and a huge favorite of DeSantis. The Hispanic cultures are being indoctrinated to believe that Democrats equal socialist/Communist movements. Hispanic voters in Florida are turning to republican candidates more and more.

[Pyryck]

7. Moms for Liberty

Is NOT a grass-roots organization. It is meant to enrage the righties and is funded by the usual folks. Follow the money.

[Lochloosa]

10. Heritage Foundation Tool

[Skittles]

8. how do they reconcile banning books with liberty

fascist fucks