it sounds like she's a holdover of the old administration. as a representative of the faculty, they probably couldn't get rid of her when they made their big changes. i don't envy her position, having to watch a respected institution she's worked for be turned into this hideous caricature of education.
Maybe DeSantis and that Chris Rufo mutant freak will go down together in a helicopter, like their hero almost did. As long as we're wishing, we might as well wish for the best for America.
Governor Rick Snyder, beside appointing a Republican asshole to poison Flint, since black people can't govern themselves, also appointed a Republican asshole in Detroit for the same reason. As a cost-cutting measure, he shut down the main branch of the Detroit Public Library and sent all the contents to a landfill.
Not another library, not to the public, a landfill. Everything.
"Before Thursday's board of trustees meeting, Amy Reid, the faculty chair and representative on the board, said she hadn't heard about the disposal of books."
Amy Reid has since announced that she is leaving, after a run of 30 years.
So I think I read Farenheit 451 around 3rd grade? Obvs that book sticks w folx fir a reason...but maybe if it's too complex the new New College board might consider The Book Thief? Only they'd root for the Nazis.
I read a lot of SF as a kid, and, when it wasn't a writer I knew, I'd go with cover art and back cover blurb. Being a kid, I never bothered with anything like copyright date. It wasn't until I was an adult that I found out a lot of space opera stuff I read in the 60's were adult SF novels from the 40's. They got categorized as kids' SF at the local library because they didn't have any bad words or sex.
Adult works everywhere else, plot, vocabulary, setting. Work those reading muscles early on.
Worth remembering that the famous Nazi book burning photo was also done at a "gender studies center", the "institute for sexology" and that was done early in the rise of the Nazis in 1933, and paved the way for the laws calling for the killing of all LGBT people under Nazi control.
Lord Ronald of the White Boots wants to be the first to march into Gilead. Next up? Books having to do with non-white (according to Republican definition) people. You know, like Ruby Bridges.
That picture is painful to see. I find it impossible to even throw away a ratty paperback novel, much less hardcover, serious works.
Board of trustees lady just SHOCKED by the nazism going on at the college that is now run by nazis.
Shocked!
Jesus fuck
it sounds like she's a holdover of the old administration. as a representative of the faculty, they probably couldn't get rid of her when they made their big changes. i don't envy her position, having to watch a respected institution she's worked for be turned into this hideous caricature of education.
Maybe DeSantis and that Chris Rufo mutant freak will go down together in a helicopter, like their hero almost did. As long as we're wishing, we might as well wish for the best for America.
Governor Rick Snyder, beside appointing a Republican asshole to poison Flint, since black people can't govern themselves, also appointed a Republican asshole in Detroit for the same reason. As a cost-cutting measure, he shut down the main branch of the Detroit Public Library and sent all the contents to a landfill.
Not another library, not to the public, a landfill. Everything.
so gross. how can we be forced to watch these people destroy our institutions and have no recourse against them once they leave office?
It's a gross out contest between Florida and Texas, and everybody loses
"Before Thursday's board of trustees meeting, Amy Reid, the faculty chair and representative on the board, said she hadn't heard about the disposal of books."
Amy Reid has since announced that she is leaving, after a run of 30 years.
𝐀𝐦𝐲 𝐑𝐞𝐢𝐝, 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐅𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠
https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/education/2024/08/16/amy-reid-new-college-of-florida-faculty-chair-leaving-the-school/74816803007/
I am honestly surprise she wasn't tossed into the dumpster along with the books.
But money
or trying to stick up for the college she spent her life contributing to?
I was thinking about the same. In a good turn of events, she's going to do some work with PEN America. THAT oughta give Rufo something to whine about.
Come to think of it...the reaction to this may become another story at Yr Wonkette...
They're not even bothering to hide their open hatred of "the other" anymore.
Remember the beginning and ending of Cabaret.
So I think I read Farenheit 451 around 3rd grade? Obvs that book sticks w folx fir a reason...but maybe if it's too complex the new New College board might consider The Book Thief? Only they'd root for the Nazis.
I read a lot of SF as a kid, and, when it wasn't a writer I knew, I'd go with cover art and back cover blurb. Being a kid, I never bothered with anything like copyright date. It wasn't until I was an adult that I found out a lot of space opera stuff I read in the 60's were adult SF novels from the 40's. They got categorized as kids' SF at the local library because they didn't have any bad words or sex.
Adult works everywhere else, plot, vocabulary, setting. Work those reading muscles early on.
Simply handling those books could have caused moral contamination via osmosis. A used book sale would have been a super spreader event.
Ta, Dok. It really hurts that none of this is shocking.
I agree. And I do not like the feelings I have now; rage, frustration, sadness. I am a bookworm. Ugh, it hurts.
We don't condone burning books, we just send them off the incinerator by the dumpster load.
"Could this reporter have some sort of bias?" says the twit who, in the same comment, calls gender studies "propaganda".
I don't expect these guys to not be hypocrites, but I think it's still important to point it out.
Man, fuck those twisted hatemongers. I'm just so glad destroying knowledge, that hallmark of Nazism (thank you Doc), has been normalized by fools
Worth remembering that the famous Nazi book burning photo was also done at a "gender studies center", the "institute for sexology" and that was done early in the rise of the Nazis in 1933, and paved the way for the laws calling for the killing of all LGBT people under Nazi control.
https://www.hmd.org.uk/resource/6-may-1933-looting-of-the-institute-of-sexology/
First books, then people. When has it ever turned out any differently?
The wrong people are being tossed in the dumpster. Sorry, the wrong things are being tossed in the dumpster.
Lord Ronald of the White Boots wants to be the first to march into Gilead. Next up? Books having to do with non-white (according to Republican definition) people. You know, like Ruby Bridges.