Georgia’s Senate passed a bill Thursday that would ban libraries from spending public or private funds on services offered by the American Library Association, which a Republican member of the chamber called a “Marxist and socialist” group.

The measure, Senate Bill 390, passed by a vote of 33 to 20. Democrats opposed it, saying the ALA offered libraries invaluable services and had long defended free speech and artistic expression.

But one of the bill’s authors, Republican Sen. Larry Walker III, said the group’s agenda and politics were inconsistent with Georgia’s conservative values.

“This is not an attack on libraries,” he said. “It doesn’t ban any books.”

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    7 months ago

    Progress is never a flat line. Incrementalism only exist to erode our rights, not gain them. Rights are cemented hard and fast with a pen stroke. Incrementalism is the 10000 lawsuits chipping away at it one nib le at a time. 50 years of that and look, Roe gets overturned.

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      7 months ago

      Or maybe you just don’t quite understand complex ideas in politics.

      This has nothing to do with roe, but please go off sister.

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        7 months ago

        I got a degree in poli sci that says otherwise

        And then 30years of following politics like Alabamans follow the Crimson Tide. I don’t care for celebrities, don’t much care for sports, don’t collect trinkets. I study philosophy and economics. 30 years of it now. Actively. I study power. I do politics, from my street, to neighborhood, on to city, county, state, federal, world.

        But go ahead and enlighten me, tell me something I don’t already know. Please. My favorite thing is learning. Shoot your shot, man, I’d love a rabbit hole I’ve missed, I’m not even kidding.