cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16364130
Appeals court tells Texas it cannot ban books for mentioning ‘butt and fart’
Conservative-dominated court restores books denounced by officials as ‘pornographic filth’ to school libraries
An appellate court has ruled that Texas cannot ban books from libraries simply because they mention “butt and fart” and other content which some state officials may dislike.
The fifth US circuit court of appeals issued its decision on Thursday in a 76-page majority opinion, which was written by Judge Jacques Wiener Jr and opened with a quote from American poet Walt Whitman: “The dirtiest book in all the world is the expurgated book.”
In its decision, the appellate court declared that “government actors may not remove books from a public library with the intent to deprive patrons of access to ideas with which they disagree”.
mention “butt and fart”
denounced by officials as ‘pornographic filth’
Some people
Yeah. They (pretend to) consider the kind of things that children (and many adults) find more hilarious than anything else “pornographic filth” and racial and ethnic slurs protected speech.
These people are literally mentally unwell authoritarian bigots.
Almost the entirety of what my kids find funny is just adding ‘poopy’, ‘pee’, butt’, and ‘fart’ to sentences. If there is a god, I’m pretty sure they could’ve found less funny ways for us to expel gases and bodily waste than the current system (though we’d still joke about it).
Americans completely lost the plot.
Makes me think they have poop and fart fetishes
An appellate court has ruled that Texas cannot ban books from libraries
We now live in a world where a news article needs to contain this line. (and this is far from the only recent example)
Think about that.
Yeah… The jury’s still out on whether or not this is the darkest timeline, but it’s definitely the stupidest 🤦
This timeline went off the rails somewhere between The Berestein Bears and Sinbad’s genie movie.
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Those books include seven “butt and fart” books with titles including I Broke My Butt! and Larry the Farting Leprechaun
I know what’s on my summer reading list.
Judge Weiner is protecting Texans rights to read about butt and fart.
https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/words/Butt
Though bible always talks around farts.
Oh thank god…
That was a close one for your publishing empire!
What a time to be alive
Butt, farts are funny!
Okay, I have to ask…what the Chicken McFucknuggets is that a thumbnail of? Even full screen, I can’t figure it out. It looks like a bare ass shot from underneath on the left side, but the right cheek looks off. Also, I know The Guardian is a shit rag, but I can’t imagine they’d just be posting bare ass pics like that with their articles.
what the Chicken McFucknuggets is that a thumbnail of?
It’s the marble ass of a statue 😁
Also, I know The Guardian is a shit rag,
Nah, they’re usually pretty good. With some notable exceptions.
I can’t imagine they’d just be posting bare ass pics like that with their articles
It’s not a real ass and even if it was, so what? Would you consider that “pornographic filth”? 🙄
Okay noted, but how is it oriented? Is ass crack of the statue the diagonal like going down and to the left from the top right? If so, then why does the left butt cheek look so round and the right one so flat? It’s just a really weird camera orientation, my brain can’t grok it.
My guess is that the disparity comes from the muscle working differently with each leg. For example by one leg being bent and the other straight. Possibly some leaning and/or sitting too 🤷
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Autistic and having a hard time parsing abstract images from weird camera angles, but thanks for the support. 👍
