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Madison County Public Library administrators were asked to go over a list of potentially "sexually explicit" books to be moved from the children's and young adult section to the adult section. The majority of these books were about the LGBTQ community. At least one was added to the list because the author's last name is Gay.

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[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 111 points 1 year ago (14 children)

And as always, the library has a copy of Mein Kampf that no rightwinger has a problem with.

[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 54 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And the Bible. Let's not forget that.

[–] TechyDad@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey, the Bible is totally child friendly. Like that passage where Lot's daughters get him drunk and have sex with him in order to have his babies.

Or the one that describes how a guy's brother died without having an heir. So the guy got to have sex with his sister-in-law in order to give her a son. Except he pulled out at the last second and "let his seed spill on the ground" and was killed for breaking his word.

Or maybe the passage where Dinah was raped and her rapist wanted to marry her. Dinah's brothers agreed, but only if all the men in that village got circumcised. Then, when all the men were "indisposed," the brothers ran in, killed all the men, and took the women and children captive.

See? So totally child friendly!

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

"Let the heathens spill theirs on the dusty ground. God shall strike them down for each sperm that can't be found."

  • Book of John ^(Cleese)
[–] tryptaminev@feddit.de 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mein Kampf has very interesting parts about reproductivity of animals. Statements such as

"the stork goes to the female stork, field mouse to field mouse, house mouse to house mouse, wolf to wolf, etc..."

are truly remarkable in his incomprehensibly big brain revelations about biology. Then he moves on to explain how the same would apply to humans, completely brushing over the fact that storks and mouse are different kinds and he is too stupid to differentiate between race and kind.

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago

Shut up nerd, save the science for the vivisections!

-- Hitler (probably)

[–] Uranium3006@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

The people.complaining put quotes from it in their newsletters

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[–] the_q@lemmy.world 79 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Alabamians are so proud of being some of the dumbest and hateful people on the planet.

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[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 75 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is this the family everyone keeps talking about when they say The Gays are destroying everything? Are they like the Sachlers?

[–] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago (3 children)

As a homosexual, I'm very interested in reading their Gay Agenda.

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's mostly a family Christmas newsletter-type deal with updates on what all the Gays are up to. Mary Gay tends to get a lot of coverage.

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[–] umbraroze@kbin.social 54 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Reminds me of that time when some Christian website had put an RSS news feed on their home page, but of course the owner had insisted on putting a word filter on it.

So the website had a headline about "Tyson Homosexual" winning gold.

People immediately started wondering what kind of headlines the website would have on the anniversary of the historic flight of Enola Homosexual and the Hiroshima bombing.

[–] SonnyVabitch@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ah, nice! This is a glorious example of the genre.

[–] EssentialCoffee@midwest.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly, my favorite use of this is Guild Wars 2 turning everything censored into 'kitten'.

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Also gloriously resulting in sporting news stories being auto-censored to be about “rugby prostitutes” in the US.

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[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Reminds me of the good old days when AOL was king of the dial-up “internet”. They unilaterally rolled out a filter that suddenly completely broke a forum devoted to survivors of breast cancer. Only after a ton of backlash and negative press about “survivors of hooter cancer” did they relent…

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This is the guy the feed was talking about. A good athlete who probably got a lot of shit in school: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyson_Gay

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[–] TheProtagonist@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago

Soon there will be a law to change her name automatically into "Marie-Louise Straight", so that administrators will be happy.

[–] Sabre363@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 year ago

I'm impressed. The author is so committed to brainwashing our innocent children into having sex that she went back in time and gave herself the name Gay.

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 33 points 1 year ago

Tienanmen square levels of make believe

[–] Im14abeer@midwest.social 31 points 1 year ago

These loons are to books what Frankenstein's monster was to fire. I want to know who told them what's inside those buildings the smart people hang out in.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Logic checks out. I read the Berenstain Bears as a kid and I grew up to be a bear.

[–] anzich@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Turned you into a furry, you prove their point

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[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So whats his last name? I want to know how gay it is? Is it like Dick Butkus?

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[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My friend Gaylord would get cancelled so fucking fast, he'd go back in time.

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[–] reflex@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

flagged at Alabama library because author's last name is Gay

'Bama library being dumb Fockers.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Real and Gay

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wait until these people remember that the bomber that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, an act of heroism and a very much necessary slaughter of 100,000 civilians (don't worry, they were the bad guys), was christened Enola Gay.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 points 1 year ago

Contrary to popular belief, The Gays are actually straight.

[–] TruTollTroll@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (16 children)

I may be off my rocker here but I will bet the author has a discrimination lawsuit, if he finds a cleaver enough lawyer to argue the semantics of it.... also gay used to and still does mean happy and was used as late as the 80s in the USA... it only recently changed since the 90s to mean an orientation.... so I bet this author could have an interesting day in court....

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