Appeals court tells Texas it cannot ban books for mentioning ‘butt and fart’
Conservative-dominated court restores books denounced by officials as ‘pornographic filth’ to school libraries
An appellate court has ruled that Texas cannot ban books from libraries simply because they mention “butt and fart” and other content which some state officials may dislike.
The fifth US circuit court of appeals issued its decision on Thursday in a 76-page majority opinion, which was written by Judge Jacques Wiener Jr and opened with a quote from American poet Walt Whitman: “The dirtiest book in all the world is the expurgated book.”
In its decision, the appellate court declared that “government actors may not remove books from a public library with the intent to deprive patrons of access to ideas with which they disagree”.
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And these old farts are complaining about how “soft” today’s youth are? They really need to get their heads out of their butts.
And also tout freedom of speech.
They gonna come for your post next.
Watch your profanity
And when bullshit like this gets passed and they get in trouble, they automatically assume it's the left lol
Imagine having to write 76 pages in response to this bullshit
To be fair, he didn't have to make it that long.
On the other hand, we wouldn't have gotten this:
for extra effect, I recommend reading through the opinion first before imagining. The high quality of the writing really accentuates the ludicrous degree of clown shit on display from the GOP.
The primary opinion is only 27 pages. The rest is a three page concurrence a 46 page dissent by Duncan.
It’s still 76 pages of legal writing because the GQP has become so good at wasting our time.
I think it says something that one of the books they were trying to ban was Called Themselves the K.K.K: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group by Susan Campbell Bartoletti.
If you look at the books that were banned and take out all the humorous ones about butts and farts, you're left almost exclusively with books about past conservative atrocities and books about current targets of conservative bigotry.
The people who want to ban these books were too bigoted for the 5th Circuit. They'll probably try to close the whole library next.
The Bible describes God showing Moses his 'backside', which a number of actual scholars interpret as including his butt.
Not sure about farts in the Bible, but there's stories about rape, incest, at one point a description of men with 'emission like donkeys', ie, huge cum loads from big dicks.
They seem to never learn that if you try to ban 'pornographic' text, you'll have to ban the Bible as well.
Nuh uh. I swored on the bi-bull three times. That ain’t in there. I never heard my preacher say that and all he ever talked about was the bi-bull.
That’s one angle though isn’t it, so then they can claim religious persecution?
From the "fuck your feelings" crowd lol
No, no, no! You got it all wrong. It’s the kiiiiiiiids.
Kids fucking live for fart and butt jokes. I've never seen a group of children giggle harder than when I watched a teacher read "I Need a New Butt."
My older kids went through a phase where they were just randomly saying “butt” for like a year. By the end of it I couldn’t stand my own ass.
“Hey dad, dad, DAD!”
“What is it kiddo?”
“Butts! Ahahahahaha. Just picture it, crack down the middle, poopin’, just hanging out being a butt.”
When I realized I hadn’t heard the word “butt” for a few months, my sigh of relief could have changed the orbit of the planet.
Butt
Imagine being all worked up about books mentioning raging obscenities like 'butt' and 'fart', only to get slapped in the face by Judge 'Wiener'. 😂
Theyre trying to ban him next
Imagine having that much of an issue with barely offensive words that their kids will never read because most don't use the school library anyway.
And imagine letting your kids come home and access whatever media they want including actual pornography on the internet. Most of these parents have zero clue how to block internet sites on their home computers and laptops let alone the phones that their kids all have.
But of course, that's another problem some parents are asking the government to solve by forcing porn sites to require visitors to affirmatively identify themselves and their age. Of course, that only applies to the major porn sites that play by the arbitrary rules anyway. All so stupid.
Heh heh
Poetry in motion
Get fucked fascists. Exactly never are the ones banning/burning books on the right side of history.
Take that you butt-hurt fart knockers.
The desenting opinion called the court the "library police" for refusing to let the state police the library.
All they know is projection
Imagine being that offended by Captain Underpants
Sadly they slowly dismantle public education at every turn. I'd be curious to see the uptick in the past 40 years of homeschooling, particularly those doing so for religious reasons.
It's not the last 40 years, it's been since Civil Rights legislation and the Brown vs Board decision.
Curious to see the numbers for any time range, just suspected a growth in past few decades.
Good. Fuck Butt Fart Texas. Books should not be censored for words. I remember a teacher in maybe 7th grade reading a book outloud with the word fuck in it, and he just said it and kept reading, he.knew the book well. I gained a lot of respect for that teacher and listened to him because I felt like he wasn't going to censor what he taught us.
Good teacher. Authors choose their words intentionally. I'm guessing "fudging", "friggen", and "ducking" (thanks iPhone) are not great replacements for the subject matter.
And in 5 years they’ll all be wearing “Make Butt Fart Again” hats.
I haven't farted in like twenty years. You have no idea how much you start to miss it.
Jesus, I am propelled everywhere I go by farts. Makes the kids laugh so I guess I’ll be alright.
I want that hat. It should be brown.
Now I want nothing more than to parade around in front of a bunch of conservatives in a "Make Butt Fart Again" hat
Apparently terms that anyone over 12 years old doesn't find funny anymore count as "adult".
Is this conservatives admitting that they are all just immature children?
Republicans are NOT Snowflakes!
Unfortunately, we know how this is going to go: "If you won't let us ban books from the library, we'll just ban the library."
Already happening in some places. Local governments are cutting library funding because they don't like the some of the content that their libraries are stocking, but the courts won't let them ban it all.
Time to open private non-profit libraries, offer classes on social tolerance and apply for public grants?
Which was probably the intent from the start.
Btw, I absolutely ADORE that the acronym for the system used by libraries to weed out old books is MUSTIE 😆❤️
What does MUSTIE stand for? You can't just leave us hanging! 🤓
Anyone else thinking that this Judge would have gotten his autobiography banned for profanity just for the name?
Every child between the ages of 2 and 10 would find a book with nothing but the words 'butt' and 'fart' endlessly amusing.
Awesome. Time to check out "The Poop That Took a Pee."
Butts make funny noises when you pass gas. Babies laugh at it. They have no idea what’s going on at all 95% of the time, but they get that farts are funny.
Reminds me of Stephen Colbert and Hugh Laurie pointing out the sheer ridiculousness of censoring words:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x12t3st
Didn't Trump fart all the time while in court? I'd expect them to love farts and huff them all the time. Their lord and savior deemed it good enough for his behind, so it shall be good enough for their noses. It was his political statement, banning farts from books is political motivated terrorism or something like that, I don't know. I'm not insane enough to understand their intentions.
I swear Captain Underpants already negated this like a decade ago lol
Not even close to the most ridiculous things in books Texas had tried to ban.
Sounds like they're the ones in need of new butts.
I have one question why
Is this a form of gaslighting?
So kids, as we know now, our ancestors, the hominids that came before us, they all had big butts apparently. Ha! I said butts! Now they can't ban my book on evolution!
Scrottie McBugger-Balls (the book they wrote in South Park)