Speed Bump by Dave Coverly for August 07, 2023

Good one!

Would it make sense to ban books on how to ban nooks?

Ban everything that leads to moral outrage.

Ever notice that the ones wanting book bans don’t read?

Porn doesn’t belong in a library.

Too true, this cartoon be.

Banning books will just make kids want to read them.

I like that someone Utah got the Bible banned from schools based on bible quotes

Ban no, restrict for age appropriateness yes.

No fair, the librarian is a cat lady, all dog books got banned first.

Meanwhile, down in Florida.

I have a friend who is a librarian. You wouldn’t believe how threatening and vulgar the people who want to ban books can be, per his experience. There is nothing civil, thoughtful, or logical about their behavior or reasoning. Plus the fact they haven’t read the books they want to ban. he says that intimidation is their primary strategy. One of his colleagues had enough and countered that the bible should be banned because of the sex and violence in it. That apparently shut up one fascist.

Banning books is taking away the freedom of speech, opinion, artistic expression, etc.

I like Books on Nooks…

Today’s comic offering has been Banned in Texas and Florida.

The cartoon was complete with the first sentence. Then it was more than doubled with the second. Nice!

Show me a library is filled with books that do not offend anyone, and I will show you and empty building.

Ain’t it strange that the people who claim that ensuring that school libraries are age appropriate is “book banning” but forcing editors to stop publishing certain books and edit out “offensive parts” is not book banning.

You just know someone’s offended by this.

No doubt…..

Protecting children from age-inappropriate books is not dumb. There’s a reason that video stores used to have a restricted little room out the back for people who wanted “adult” content.

Some books now promote adult content to those too young to understand.

the operative word being dumb

@PoochFan – a very effective trap, I must say

So true…

porn is decided by the reader, if you think it’s porn what’s wrong with your filthy mind

There was not a drive to ban books until the GQP determined they didn’t have any real proposals on their platform. This is similar when the Tea baggers would go to Democrat politician’s meetings shouting “Keep the government out of my medicare.”

It’s a distraction so the public won’t demand to make the rich and corps pay their fair share in taxes.

The Bible has been banned countless times because it ended up falling under the category of ‘not for children because I don’t want literature to contain X’

Asking a library to not carry a book is not banning books. Any book you want is still availabl,

Comic created by a pedophile?