The First Amendment doesn’t just protect what you say. It also protects your right to hear what others say. It guarantees a right to published information. It protects a whole lot of stuff ce…

A lawsuit, filed by patrons of a county library in Arkansas, has been allowed to move forward by a federal court. The First Amendment lawsuit plausibly alleges the library’s decision to move anything determined to be “LGBTQ” from the children’s section to the adult’s section violates the First Amendment right to equitable access to information. (via Courthouse News Service)

Here’s how this started, according to the decision [PDF] that moves this lawsuit forward:

[I]n late 2022 or early 2023 the Crawford County Library System implemented a policy under which its library branches must remove from their children’s sections all books containing LGBTQ themes, affix a prominent color label to those books, and place them in a newly-created section called the “social section.” Plaintiffs allege this policy was imposed on the Library System by the Crawford County Quorum Court in response to political pressure from constituents who objected, at least partly on religious grounds, to the presence of these books in the children’s section.

          • geosoco@kbin.socialOP
            2·
            1 year ago

            it’s better to just write new comments and downvote such that theirs get burried.

            Engaging them just makes longer threads that draw attention to their comments. Everytime you reply, he comes back and adds more comments.

              • AnonTwo@kbin.social
                2·
                1 year ago

                Well he is also arguing to bury them in downvotes, which is partially helpful towards dealing with them

                But since that doesn’t matter on lemmy/kbin maybe reporting would be better. but still downvote since the option is there of course.

              • geosoco@kbin.socialOP
                1·
                1 year ago

                They also have fun with it. Their goal is to waste your time. So even if you have fun with it, you’re still boosting the behavior so they can go back to their corners and share it with others, who then also come back.

                There’s a reason so many spaces just rely on banning. Your time is better spent sharing reasonable articles for the people who actually are semi-coherent, and you’re going to have more effect doing that.

                  • geosoco@kbin.socialOP
                    1·
                    1 year ago

                    My point isn’t to not argue for the existence of human beings, just be selective about who you argue with and how that draws attention to them. You can do that without replying to them to bring them back. Just reference their name without @ing them. You can share this info without that.

                    “don’t feed the trolls” not enlightened centerist nonsense, and there aren’t good-faith moderators on lemmy.world. This has been around for 30+ years at this point, and people do it because it works, and it’s been researched. Removing or diminishing their voice is the only thing that helps, regardless of how its done, and there’s research on this plus tons of experience of people modding communities.

      • PenguinJuice@kbin.social
        3·
        1 year ago

        I don’t watch Fox news.

        Children should not be reading about advanced sexual theory.

        Period. There is no discussion to be had here. I am more than happy to be a bigoted moron in your eyes if you can’t handle that fact.

    • WHYAREWEALLCAPS@lemmy.world
      9·
      1 year ago

      These are children’s books, not “advanced sexual theory”, whatever the fuck that is. Learning about LGBTQ+ people is not inherently sexual. If it is, then any book showing any relationship, LGBTQ+ or cishet, is “advanced sexual theory”. LGBTQ+ people exist that way from birth just like cishet people do. The sooner children realize that what they are is not unusual and not “wrong”, the less emotional and psychological trauma they will face.

            • AnonTwo@kbin.social
              3·
              1 year ago

              I’d argue you’re treating your children like pets and not the human beings who have to grow up into this world without any actual knowledge, because you’re pushing them away not from advanced knowledge but in this case what should be basics knowledge.

              They have to learn about this stuff eventually, and teenagers are still not assumed adults legally. This would push them from that knowledge far, far, far too late.

            • RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.works
              2·
              1 year ago

              The majority of people don’t want to subject their children to this stuff and that’s just the facts.

              Lol. Thanks, I needed a good laugh today.

        • Concetta
          3·
          1 year ago

          Maybe to a rock with a negative IQ, if you aren’t a bigot piece of shit you wouldn’t say things like that.

    • SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml
      7·
      1 year ago

      How does Heather Has Two Mommies relate to advanced sexual theory? Does any reference to families now become advanced sexual theory because families are the result of sexual reproduction, or is it only heteronormative families that are not sexual?