Hundreds of books are being banned in TN, including classics

This madness can’t last. But I don’t know if it matters because it’s Tennessee. I’ve been to Memphis. There is no reason for me to set foot in the state again.

Dumb fucks in Tennessee don't read, any way.

So this is all working out quite well for them.

The irony is that if they actually READ books, they probably wouldn't be banning them.

I live in TN. I read 300 books a year, fiction and non-fiction combined. That’s completely separate from the medical research I read in my work.

Then again I have to constantly remind people that the two blue islands—Nashville & Knoxville—that cluster around the major universities are completely different from the very red rest of the state. (Memphis is its own purple special case.) The red rest of the state is constantly pissed off at those of us in the blue islands because we push for Bad Things like knowledge and science. They like to pass laws like this in part to fuck with “those libtards over in Nashville”

The librarians must be so depressed - I can’t even imagine what it’s like for them.

What could possibly be objectionable about Calvin and Hobbes?

[quote] What could possibly be objectionable about Calvin and Hobbes?

We don't like sardonic wit. Especially at our expense.

Oh, and by the way? TIGERS CAN'T TALK!

Thanks Tennessee for making us look like oases of learning!

R5 I'm a librarian in a blue state -- one of the bluest -- but there is MAGA here too. They're exhausting and never stop complaining about . . . God, everything. I'm getting out soon. I'm too old for this horseshit. I feel sorry for the younger ones coming up but the work stopped being fun and engaging after Covid because that just made everyone crazy.

Calvin And Hobbes? WTF

Can they read in Tennessee?

Little surprised by Calvin and Hobbes, but of course these miserable fucks hate imagination, hate any child that isn't sitting dutifully in a church or a classroom, believing every bullshit thing any adult is telling him. And of course what Mencken pointed out a hundred years: the puritan's haunting fear that somewhere, somebody is having a fun time. Gotta stamp that shit out as quickly as possible.

People that read a lot tend to be more empathetic with critical thinking skills. That can't be allowed to happen.

Truly depressing. Thankful to live in a solidly blue state.