What is wrong with this picture?

[goaded]

Every day, everywhere, babies are carried...

In backpacks, in front packs, in slings, and in strollers,
in car seats, and bike seats, and on Daddy's shoulders.

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I ask, because the book's been banned in a school district in Florida.

There was a Walton's episode, that I wish I could find on YouTube. People decided to burn every German book they could find, but one of them started "In the beginning, God created the heavens and earth..."

Don't ban books.

[Lliam]

A few classic works of literature that have been banned by various schools, cities, states or countries over the years include:

The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye, by JD Salinger
The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
Ulysses, by James Joyce
Beloved, by Toni Morrison
The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
1984, by George Orwell
Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
Animal Farm, by George Orwell
The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner
A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
Native Son, by Richard Wright
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey
Slaughterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway
The Call of the Wild, by Jack London
Go Tell It on the Mountain, by James Baldwin
All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren
The Lord of the Rings, by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair
Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D. H. Lawrence
Banned by U. S. Customs (1929).
A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie
Sophie's Choice, by William Styron
Sons and Lovers, by D. H. Lawrence
Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs
Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
Women in Love, by DH Lawrence
The Naked and the Dead, by Norman Mailer
Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller
An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser
Rabbit, Run, by John Updike

The bans are due to religion, politics and, recently, PC culture.
Fuck that!!!

[goaded]

Ooh, which ones were because of "PC culture"? Huckleberry Finn, for extreme use of the N-word, I suppose, which others.

[DaveToo]

Book burning is a pastime for folks, mostly politicians or those that want to be, in Florida.

[DaveToo]

Thanks for the MHO!

[Razp_Sorbet]

Apparently it's because some of the illustrations may depict same sex couples

[goaded]

That's the really crazy thing, though. They could equally well not (and nobody should care, anyway).

[Razp_Sorbet]

It's Florida 🤷🏻‍♀️ they remove books "for the purposes of reviewing and re-evaluating age-appropriateness and content" which is a long winded version of saying we are homophobic and want to shelter children from the real world and then will blame society when they grow up to hate us

[demonics]

You don't even live here, hush.

[goaded]

@demonics That's called ad hominem, look it up.

[demonics]

She's complaining about a problem that doesn't affect her, and only cares about when politically expedient i. e. a state she was told not to like. Here are the 75 other countries you could bitch about but no, 'Florida is in the news so here's my $0.02.' By next week it'll be something else and she'll forget all about Florida, like a cat and laser pointer. Slacktivism, look it up.

[goaded]

@demonics Still ad hominem.

[Razp_Sorbet]

@demonics incredibly false who could forget about all the shit things many us states are doing to the LGBT community and women? Both of which are communities I'm a part of. Does it personally affect me? No but if shit like this keeps happening it sets a precedence to the leaders of the rest of the world. I don't want to live in a sheltered hateful world and I definitely don't want to raise children in a world like that.

As for your map would you care to explain what it's showing?

[demonics]

1. The map shows countries where you'd be killed or jailed.
2. Reality has a conservative bias. Meaning, we recognize that the world as you see it today is temporary and that eventually things go upside down, and we return to barbarism, and conflict. Women become property again, and the weak get eaten alive, sometimes literally. Feminism, these weird sexual deviancies are as a result of a society that has been made too safe. When food and shelter are no longer scarce people delve into leisure. Too much leisure leads to excess and debauchery. Classic statements like "strong men make good times, good times make weak men, weak men make bad times, bad times make strong men", or Aristotle's "masculine republics, lead to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies lead to tyranny," are time honored for a reason. As a woman, the bubble you live in is SO thick, this all sounds like nonsense... until its slapping you in the face and is too late i. e.:

www.newsweek.com/venezuelas-economic-crisis-has-forced-doctors-become-prostitutes-672035

The first sign of a threat to her security, the human female will seek out the protection of a man be it an actual man, or the government.
slate.com/.../...irus-roommate-loneliness-sex.html

This Tumblr and social media induced nonsense purple hairs spew relentlessly will evaporate almost immediately.

[Razp_Sorbet]

@demonics have you ever thought for just a minute... That all the issues in the world are actually just because of shit leaders. The united states is not liberal. It's very far from it and it's turning to shit. Take a look at Switzerland, one of the most liberal countries. Compare the issues the people from USA and Switzerland are most worried about, for Switzerland its covid 19, retirement , unemployment, environment. For the USA it's, government disatisfaction

[Razp_Sorbet]

Disease, economy in general, cost of living, immigration, Justice system, so on and so on

[AviatorTom]

Florida school district found the two men embracing (just right of the tree) to be potentially offensive since it might imply gay men. All I see in the picture is a lot of noise... lots of people and things. It doesn't bother me.

[goaded]

Did they actually admit that was the reason? It seemed likely, but considering 70% of Americans are in favour of same-sex marriages nowadays, and men do occasionally put their arms around each other's shoulders, it seems a bit extreme.

[NathanDavis]

ask... a leftist, and they will tell you all of what is offensive about it...

ask the right... and they will tell you all of what is a threat to America, in it...

[goaded]

Quarter right. I don't think anyone can find anything offensive about it, and the right won't tell us what the "threat to America" supposedly is, although they clearly think it poses one. we can only make an educated guess.

[NathanDavis]

can't find anything offensive about it?

I think you really underestimate some of the left here in the USA... lmao

or how neurotic the far right can be about pretty much anything they see differently

[Adam1978]

The strollers are turned the wrong way. The should be facing the parents. The kids need to be able to see them. Otherwise can't spot anything wrong.

[goaded]

Not bad, but that's how most of them work, in my experience. Kids like to see new things, too.

[Adam1978]

They can still see new things. The direction doesn't matter for that. You can have facing away strollers when kids are older and more independent but usually you stop with strollers then and let them walk.

[goaded]

You're right, I think ours faced towards us, when they were very little.

[Still-alive]

looks like Daddy is carrying a full grown man on his shoulders.. not a baby lol

[goaded]

I always said a hat makes you look more mature.

[exitseven]

I was in Vermont once and I saw that Huckleberry Finn was banned at a local school. I guess they objected to his relationship with an escaped slave.

[goaded]

Why would you guess that? You can't think of any other possible reason?

[goaded]

Also, and unsurprisingly, it appears not to be true. Vermont doesn't go in for banning books. Compare to Texas Representative Matt Krause's list of 850 books he wants banned.

The list (pdf), if you want some good reads for children: static.texastribune.org/.../krausebooklist.pdf

vtcynic.com/.../

[exitseven]

@goaded I think this was a local banning and not statewide.

[exitseven]

I looked at this list but there is no context about where these books will be banned. If it is in the public schools I would agree with probably most of these titles just from reading the title. This crap does not belong in our schools. If it is just banning them from selling them in a store then that would be unconstitutional.

[goaded]

I can't find any reference to it in Vermont, I'm sure it would have made the news. Besides, the usual reason given for it to be banned is the use of the N-word, but you were just trolling.

[exitseven]

no, I am not trolling. I did see this although it was 4 or 5 years ago.

[Snakeyes7]

It's a book right? What do the rest of the pages have?

[goaded]

Buy a copy. Or you can preview a lot of it on Amazon. What terrible thing do you think there might be in a board book about babies for very small children?

[Snakeyes7]

I don't know that's what I want to find out.

[goaded]

1. Assume, for the sake of argument, that this page is the "worst" page in the book. Why would someone ban it?

2. What do you imagine *might* be in a published board book about babies for very small children that should lead to it being excluded from a school library?

[Snakeyes7]

1. I have no idea.

2. Something about their parents or other adults doing something awful to them but pass it off as something harmless, normal or something that should be normal.

It's more likely going to have some sort of implication that gender is a social construct being applied to little kids.

[goaded]

It's a book about babies. Milk-goes-in-shit-comes-out, carried everywhere, can't focus their eyes yet babies. You can't seriously believe there's anything in there about gender identity, can you?

[Snakeyes7]

It's the only reason I can think of that would lead this book to be removed from schools.

[goaded]

I think the "problem" was the page I showed, no other.

[crmoore]

There's white people in it /s

[goaded]

Why would that be a problem, there are white people all over the place?

[crmoore]

It was just a joke

[MysteriousDarkness]

@crmoore
It was a joke that fell flat.

[crmoore]

Oh darn. I was trying so hard with it, too. Now I'm going to feel bad about myself.

[KrakenAttackin]

@goaded. There are idiot snowflakes all over the place as well.

[TX651]

I see nothing, just outdated.

[goaded]

Really? Do babies float, nowadays? (Actually, that would be cool; pull them along on a string like a helium balloon!)

It's a 2004 book: "Every day, everywhere, babies are born. They're kissed and dressed and rocked and fed--and completely adored by the families that love them. With an irresistible rhyming text and delightfully endearing illustrations,..."

I suppose nobody's looking at their phones.

[goaded]

2001, aparently, according to this article: www.independent.co.uk/.../...florida-b2063611.html

[Guy13]

I do not know…

[Guy13]

Picture is not very clear actually. Fill me in please⁉️

[goaded]

I don't think there's any tiny hidden detail. Apparently, there's something wrong with the picture.

[demonics]

Wheres the pregnant woman?

[goaded]

I see what you did there. Do you think that was the reason the book was banned from school libraries?

[Astarlessnightsky]

I see nothing wrong