Freckle Face Strawberry banned by Trump administration

[rambot]

How small government is a Pentagon school supposed to be?

How dangerous is a book about a girl with freckles likely to be to anyone?

 

[Servus]

This is NOT a new book. There are a half dozen sequels at this point.

New addition to the Pentagon school collection.

 

[rambot]

Sure, I get it, I who have been raised in chastening with a rod and trained up in the way that I should go in a manner that most people in your country would call child abuse and who then endured 20 years of the chastening of war as a soldier before ending up a refugee without status for another 20 years in a country thousands of miles from my homeland, effectively being a slave and who has only learned six languages in my adult life am a deceived fool because I am content with my lot and described as far too charitable and considerate to strangers and pan handlers even though I have virtually nothing.

You on the other hand who have been raised in the deceitfulness of riches, in ease and abundance and who preaches the wisdom of the wise while conjuring up imaginary claims in your mind to argue with, because you don’t seem to even understand your own language, sees clearly while I walk in blind deception.

Thank God we have people like you to teach us that the teachings of Jesus were wrong and that chastening and poverty leads to deception whilst riches and ease leads to wisdom.

 

[Servus]

How dangerous is a book about a girl with freckles likely to be to anyone?

It's not the only book on hold. It being on hold has nothing to do with content. But let the hysteria continue.

 

[rambot]

No word has been banned. Why are you trying to spread "dis/mis/information"?

What did the AP call the body of water next to Mexico again?

And how was the response from the administration reasonable, intelligent and worthy of support?

 

[rambot]

It's not the only book on hold. It being on hold has nothing to do with content. But let the hysteria continue.

You have mentioned this, and i'm not saying I doubt you, but do you have some kinda source to back this up? You've repeated it several times without support and I'm curious about it.

 

[Servus]

You have mentioned this, and i'm not saying I doubt you, but do you have some kinda source to back this up? You've repeated it several times without support and I'm curious about it.

It's what I read in various news stories. Those who bothered to look it up should know what I know. Although I made a mistake.

"The Department of Defense circulated a memo to parents on Monday that said that it was examining library books “potentially related to gender ideology or discriminatory equity ideology topics”.

Pentagon schools suspend library books for ‘compliance review’ under Trump orders

Revealed: defense department sends memo that it’s reviewing for books ‘related to gender … or discriminatory equity ideology topics’

www.theguardian.com

 

[rambot]

It's what I read in various news stories. Those who bothered to look it up should know what I know.

I've read 5 or 6 articles on it.
None of them describe what you're saying.

They all say it WAS in the school and then it was taken OUT of the school.

I even read a Fox news story and they didn't share what you said. In fact, a spokesmen clearly indicated (in said news report) "A spokesperson for DODEA says the book was removed as part of a review process in response to executive orders issued by President Donald Trump regarding gender ideology and DEI programs."
Actress Julianne Moore says her children’s book about being a redhead has been banned

So it's not the only book getting reviewed? And that is supposed to make the situation better? And they indicate the EXACT logic for that particular book getting put into the review process....which is what this thread has been about.

You keep trying to speak pejoratively to everyone making hay in this thread but it's all just flatulence in a windstorm.


So yeah, I'm hoping you could provide a source.

 

[Chesterton]

What did the AP call the body of water next to Mexico again?

And how was the response from the administration reasonable, intelligent and worthy of support?

What does that have to do with what I said? NO WORDS HAVE BEEN BANNED. NO BOOKS HAVE BEEN BANNED. Why do you people have to be such drama queens?

 

[rambot]

What does that have to do with what I said? NO WORDS HAVE BEEN BANNED. NO BOOKS HAVE BEEN BANNED.

You said no word has been banned. AP has lost access to the press pool for calling the "Gulf of Mexico" by it's name because this adminstration has randomly changed the name and taken punitive steps against organizations who use banned words or phrases (or words and phrases they don't like).

Why do you people have to be such drama queens?

Someday you might be affected by all this and you might be able to acknowledge it happening.

 

[Chesterton]

You said no word has been banned. AP has lost access to the press pool for calling the "Gulf of Mexico" by it's name because this adminstration has randomly changed the name and taken punitive steps against organizations who use banned words or phrases (or words and phrases they don't like).

NO WORD HAS BEEN BANNED. The AP lost access. And the AP, once a respectable news outlet, is garbage.

Someday you might be affected by all this and you might be able to acknowledge it happening.

I think we will all be positively affected.

 

[rambot]

NO WORD HAS BEEN BANNED. The AP lost access.

You make it sound like those two ideas are absolutely irrelevant to each other without addressing what happened.

I think we will all be positively affected.

Well that's absolutely delusional to think that people losing their jobs are being positively affected.

 

[RDKirk]

Sure, I get it, I who have been raised in chastening with a rod and trained up in the way that I should go in a manner that most people in your country would call child abuse and who then endured 20 years of the chastening of war as a soldier before ending up a refugee without status for another 20 years in a country thousands of miles from my homeland, effectively being a slave and who has only learned six languages in my adult life am a deceived fool because I am content with my lot and described as far too charitable and considerate to strangers and pan handlers even though I have virtually nothing.

You on the other hand who have been raised in the deceitfulness of riches, in ease and abundance and who preaches the wisdom of the wise while conjuring up imaginary claims in your mind to argue with, because you don’t seem to even understand your own language, sees clearly while I walk in blind deception.

Thank God we have people like you to teach us that the teachings of Jesus were wrong and that chastening and poverty leads to deception whilst riches and ease leads to wisdom.

You don't know how I was raised, buddy.

 

[Sif]

"Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia"

If any books are actually banned I am sure it will be doubleplusgood!

 

[Chesterton]

1) Had I used the word "things", this wouldn't be an issue......so what you're doing is not really addressing anything.
2) The AP was punished EXPLICITLY for using a phrase the adminstration didn't want them to use. You make it sound like because this administration didn't "create a list of banned words" or in some other way explicitly use the word "Banned" well, then they obviously haven't "Banned" anything.

Of course if you are PUNISHED for using certain words, to suggest they are not "banned" is just giving a different name to a pile of excrement.

No one was "punished".

As a former government employee, I take significant umbrage at the accusation that government employees don't have self respect. People who choose to work in government do so because they want to work in service to people in their society and country. They often do this work at lower pay grades then they do in the private sector.
Your characterization of "useful and productive to society" misses a LOT of what is happening in the private sector. "Go work at the cheerio's factory. How great could America be if we only have 7 flavours of cheerios!"; "Go be a personal assistant to an oil executive. YOu'll definitely be helping society as you make sure his office has the appropriate number of pens". Going into the private sector, 99% of the time enriches someone else. I have a feeling a LOT of people believe that enriching someone else is a meaningful way to contribute to society as opposed to helping people.


Your take reads like the Christians who don't want to follow Jesus' teaching in the Beautitudes because it makes them seem "weak".

We have too many people earning large salaries for doing nothing, or worse, doing things detrimental to society. I have more respect for a person flipping burgers at McDonalds than I do for any bureaucrat.

 

[keith99]

"Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia"

If any books are actually banned I am sure it will be doubleplusgood!

With all the talk about annexing Canada and Greenland and whatever it is that Trump wants for The Panama Canal and Gaza, I'm somewhat surprised that there has not been anything about annexing Airstrip One!

 

[Johan2222]

You don't know how I was raised, buddy.

I know you were raised to be comfortable trying to be deceptive about what people have said and then arguing with them using your deception as a basis for truth and even when you are confronted with your error, not repenting or apologising for it.

 

[rambot]

No one was "punished".

OF course they were. The fact that you don't characterize it that way is your fault.

We have too many people earning large salaries for doing nothing, or worse, doing things detrimental to society. I have more respect for a person flipping burgers at McDonalds than I do for any bureaucrat.

Your understanding of individuals who work for the government is some kind of ridiculous characterization you've conjured up.

As if Penny in Human Resources at USAID ever did anything to make you angry, personally.

 

[durangodawood]

Wow some feisty chit chat here!

 

[Chesterton]

Your understanding of individuals who work for the government is some kind of ridiculous characterization you've conjured up.

Oh how I wish that were true. Problem is, I've dealt with the people who push papers around in order to accomplish nothing but making make life less efficient and more miserable for the rest of us.

As if Penny in Human Resources at USAID ever did anything to make you angry, personally.

She did in fact. She turned me down for a date.