
It has been a banner evening over at Yokel headquarters as we turned the pages of today’s Reconsideration Committee report! What a treat we have for you, dear readers, as sanity once more wins out in our nice county!
For a long time now we’ve tried to tell Cindy and al. that they don’t understand what the word pornography means. (Here’s the link in which we tried to educate) What we came to see, as we perused this report, is not only were we unable to dissuade her of this erroneous definition, but she and her two minions took their misunderstanding to a whole new level. These books are apparently illegal because of their very poor understanding of the meaning of that word.



Before we get to some examples of the evaluation of these books, we need to share some more of the written and verbal testimony from both Cindy and current board member (!) Nancy Allen!
Let’s start with why Cindy doesn’t believe that she actually has to read the books:

How’d you like that logic! Let’s keep going….

She continues on her journey…..

Now, we aren’t just going to focus on Cindy’s misconstructions, as we also have evidence of current board member (!) Nancy Allen’s problems with definitions:

Now, let’s talk about that Miller Test because that is the standard the hard working people who spent hours actually reading and discussing these books used to evaluate these books:

Now let’s look at a couple of examples from committee applying The Miller Test to the books Cindy found so offensive.

Here’s another one we enjoyed:

“We did not see the above things in the book”!!!! What a colossal waste of everyone’s time this was!
So, the committee gave two recommendations:

And…

Overall, a resounding victory for intellectual freedom and sanity. So how is our friend Cindy doing on her day of resounding defeat? NOT SO GOOD…..
Also, FCPS is going to start allowing parents to prohibit their child from checking out books they don’t want them to read. Therefore, if this is really about protecting their children from themes they don’t believe they are ready for and not about marginalizing groups of people and opinions they find offensive, then this case is officially closed.







This colossal waste of time aside, FCPS’s adoption of an electronic method to allow parents to make decisions for their own children as to what they should and shouldn’t read is a sound, intelligent way to deal with this issue. Parents have every right to monitor their kids’ reading choices and habits, and this system should enable them to do that without stomping on OTHER parents’ ability to set their OWN rules for their OWN households. It leaves the ultimate decision with each individual parent — and this what the book-banners are most worried about, isn’t it?
If the book-banners find fault with FCPS’s initiative in this regard, it’s a blatant tipoff that this was never really about “protecting children” after all, but simply about information control. Which would be par for the course for an organization that has quoted Hitler on its official websites.
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