 Why is it though that these that these conservative School districts or legislatures or or you know political leaders Why do they go overboard with Banny? I don't think any book should be banned first first and foremost I don't think any kind of art should be banned at all, right? But I do believe in age restrictions, right like I don't like I've seen some of the stuff that they that they're Pushing in elementary schools, right? You know like these some of these these books, right where they're showing graphic Gay sexual content, right in elementary schools That should be banned because those kids are not old enough if those kids can't walk into a bookstore and buy a playboy They should not have those books in in their in their classrooms, right? so but but now those books should exist and you should be able to You know attain those books elsewhere a bookstore a public library, but in schools I think that's where banning for me is like well Yeah, you know considering the age range. This should not be taught in grade school. This is from pan America The freedom to write conservative commentator Bill O'Reilly hits the roof over his books being banned in Florida Why? Why are these books being banned? Are they considered like what are they about? I guess O'Reilly's co-authored a dozen books in the killing series of popular biographies of historical figures like Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan He is now reportedly furious that two of these titles were removed by Escambia County Schools in December He says he wants governor DeSantis to change the law that drove bans on those books Riley also said he once supported the onslaught of school book bans in Florida and by interference other states Need attack to protect children from a far-left agenda Now he views the bans in a different light arguing that Florida lawmakers wrote a law Who's wording is too vague and needs to be rewritten? Dante see. Yeah, and this is what Okay, let worst-case scenario, right? You have a book that is supposed to be factual But it's your full of lies full of this misrepresentation the whole deal, right? Mm-hmm. I think criticism of that book is completely valid, right? Whether someone wants to buy that book or not should be up to them So I don't think it should be banned. I think it should it could be criticized Like heavily, but I don't believe in banning I only believe it when it Believe in it when it comes to children who should not be reading certain material other than that a Grown-ass person should be able to read watch listen to whatever they want Whatever they want, you know, it may not be my cup of tea, but if you're a grown person you do you and You should be able to get any form of book movie music that you want So it isn't just about children this is about banning them overall For like for a public purchase. Is it just about banning? I think in this case It's a certain school district in Florida that took the law and Kind of just took it to the full extent to where they are now Have banned more than 1600 books in school districts due to fear of the late Florida's new law HB 1069 which has been interpreted to prohibit any materials with sexual conduct any materials any materials with sexual conduct That's really vague. We're going back to like the ancient times now We're reversing For what age group though? Well, Penn America says central free free expression and writers organization Has been at the forefront of documenting this censorship, which is not Which has not been seen since the Red Scare of the 1950s It reports that titles like and and Frank's diary of a young girl Oh, that's a memoirs adventures and memoirs of Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie's death in the Nile along with Five dictionaries eight different encyclopedias the Guinness Book of World Records Ripley's believe it or not Are all on this list. Oh, that's nuts. That's that's nuts Well, and here's what I would have what I what I said right here in my in my in my post right here The right always fails horribly when it comes to comprehending cultural nuances. Yes Right, meaning that in in regards to bless me ultima which deals with good and diesel Medicine women You know healing with herbs in in in in ancient Mesoamerica has been around long before Christianity They just blended it in with Catholicism over the last 500 years. It's in the book. It's amazing. It's wonderful Well, it you know, it's that's not our Christian God. Boom. Yeah That has been one of them one of the big sticking points with this book that is Why I believe the right? Has always failed with these cultural nuances with because you assume they assume that all Latino families are over this conservative and we're heavily Catholic and This and that it's like yes and no What are your thoughts? Is this happening in Florida or is this I'm using this example, this is a Florida example, but this is happening everywhere I I See it happening in several different school boards and people or people Protesting against a liberal school board I'm just not understanding what brought on like such a big heavy hand on censorship with everything that kids all ages Yeah, have heavily have access to like why why now like why this just seems so backwards and Just not reproductive at all. But but why Do you don't a I think I think you were you were pertaining to it in regards to swinging too far far left with the literature Yeah, so for me, and I think you're right Paulie. I think I think I honestly I Think if conservatives continue To act this way they're going to continue to lose the cultural war Like they'll they'll never ever win the cultural war because they don't understand nuance, right? They go to an extreme very very quickly And as as many crazy leftists as there are there's just as many crazy far right, right? And again, if you're not balanced or in another another way of saying it is if you don't have nuance then You do stupid shit like this like band classic books from schools or libraries Okay Yeah, so I think I think I think there was a clap back with from parents and parents groups When they found out what was being taught to their kids were of a sexual nature then of a Not just a straight sexual nature So I think that started it am I right or wrong Dante? That I'm sorry say that again I think what started this clap back and going and swinging too far to the right with this type of censorship was that Parents were discovering what was being taught to their kids in in their schools were of a sexual nature Way to risque and then often out of a straight sexual nature We're like let kids be kids so to speak that kind of am I right or wrong that kind of I think you might be wrong Because I think I think the ending has been around forever, you know, but this courage this current these books though like It's been a while I've read the diary of Anne Frank, but I don't remember any sexual graphic sexual content in the diary I mean bill The Santas is Florida bill is a reaction to that Right the the two woke sexual literature being taught to the kids in the schools I mean that's gone in Florida. So using this law Different counties have reacted as such and in this example over 1600 books have now been banned Is that fair to say? Dante I I think honestly I look I I Think it's a mistake by the same time. It's it's somehow legally they're making this happen Which means well, no, I mean it means people are voting for this right they're voting for people it's along the books in Florida Right, it's really grandstanding. It's what this all is It's grandstanding. It's not there. They know that this is a pointless Act, you know what I mean? Because like I said if someone wants a book, they'll get the book