Penguin Random House Sues Escambia County, Florida School Board

[Joinfortmill]

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/a-little-optimism-in-the-middle-of?utm_source=substack&utm_medium

'A Little Optimism in the Middle of a Lot of Mess': Joyce Vance



'The lawsuit was brought against the Escambia County School Board by the publisher Penguin Random House, PEN America, five authors, and two parents after the school district removed books about race and LGBTQ people from shelves. The lawsuit alleges that banning books in school libraries violates the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause.

The school district must have good reasons for banning books, right? Apparently not even a shadow of one. The complaint alleges, “The School District and the School Board have done so based on their disagreement with the ideas expressed in those books.”...NBC’s Antonia Hylton reported that she was able to reach a school board member, who expressed surprise they had been sued because so many school districts in Florida are doing the same thing.

The plaintiffs have asked the court to issue preliminary and permanent injunctive relief requiring the school district to restore removed books to libraries in the school district....As outrageous as the conduct of state and local government has been, there is every reason to believe the federal courts in the 11th Circuit will uphold the law and put an end to the nonsense of at least the worst of it. In the meantime, DeSantis is likely doing more to motivate Democratic voters ahead of next year’s elections than anyone else.'

[Ray Bruns]

1. They had a very good reason to ban those books.

They didn’t like what they were teaching young people.

[AllaN01Bear]

10. they would not like many of the cartoons from the 80s either ,esp he man and she ra

which taught morals .

[bucolic_frolic]

2. The corporate ideal is to do business, and it's good they join free speech issues

[Alexander Of Assyria]

7. Every lost taxpayer funded performance art lawsuit should be repaid personally by republicans.

Taxpayers, is this how you want your money burned?? For one man’s personal political gain?? Not only lawyer costs repaid personally, all the time consumed and wasted in the legislation run up…millions of dollars in salaries paid to lawmakers and staff working long hours on this theatre day and night.

Repay it all! Lazy bums.

Denying that this is what it’s all about?…join the flat earth society!

[NNadir]

3. Yes!!!

Yes, YES!!!! YES!!!!!

Make them defend their fascist ignorance in court.

[Scrivener7]

4. Random House has a long history of fighting censorship. Good for them.

[Effete Snob]

5. I lived in a random house

It was very unpredictable.

Especially the penguins.

[jaxexpat]

8. Iffy, twice a day and every 48 hrs.

[niyad]

6. Excellent!

[leftyladyfrommo]

9. Good. These heavy hitters need to start getting

involved.

[AllaN01Bear]

11. eggscllent