An objecting parent cited it as "not educational and have indirectly hate messages."
Poet Amanda Gorman's Inaugural Poem "The Hill We Climb" now banned in Florida Schools
by Anonymous | reply 55 | May 29, 2023 8:38 PM |
It should be banned for its horrible poetry.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | May 24, 2023 1:14 PM |
Can you imagine that ONE asshole got to decide for everyone. And why is the person with that much power allowed anonymity?
by Anonymous | reply 2 | May 24, 2023 1:15 PM |
R1s are usually clever, R1. What a waste of an R1, but don't worry, you'll get "likes" from the usual dumbasses on here.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | May 24, 2023 1:16 PM |
Fuck Florida
by Anonymous | reply 4 | May 24, 2023 1:21 PM |
R3, oh, you mean the ones with actual good taste in poetry?
by Anonymous | reply 5 | May 24, 2023 1:23 PM |
Translation of ban: She's black and wrote this for Biden's inauguration
by Anonymous | reply 6 | May 24, 2023 1:25 PM |
So who’s the fat hillbilly with the problem?
by Anonymous | reply 7 | May 24, 2023 1:26 PM |
R2 It's the exact type of person you'd expect it to be. Some Cuban MAGA hag named Daily Salinas.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | May 24, 2023 1:27 PM |
Why are Republican Cubans even bigger assholes than other Republicans? It's like they pride themselves on being white nationalist pets.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | May 24, 2023 1:31 PM |
Amazing that just one parent complaint locks the whole thing down.
Time to complain about any book that mentions christianity or white people
by Anonymous | reply 10 | May 24, 2023 1:39 PM |
Florida parents need to file to remove every right wing book from the library.
I read almost all of these complaints come from eleven people. Those eleven are filing hundreds of complaints and shutting down books for the whole state, millions of people.
If they can do it, no reason why Democrats can’t file to remove anything remotely right wing from the library. Watch it stop.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | May 24, 2023 1:42 PM |
Good God is that woman heinous.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | May 24, 2023 1:43 PM |
Can we just ban Florida?
by Anonymous | reply 14 | May 24, 2023 1:56 PM |
Click to see the ugly bitch and read a thread about her white supremacist ties. Who's going to tell her?
by Anonymous | reply 15 | May 24, 2023 1:57 PM |
I love the detail that the complainer seems to think the poem/book was written by Oprah Winfrey.
Stupid, stupid cocksucker
by Anonymous | reply 16 | May 24, 2023 1:58 PM |
Cubans are fucking crazy
I don’t even really believe in Communism but it was a useful way to get the biggest assholes off the island
by Anonymous | reply 17 | May 24, 2023 2:00 PM |
Florida… where swamp people live.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | May 24, 2023 2:04 PM |
Overrated hack. Her poetry reads like an emotional young person imitating better artists. Gorman is meant to be their new Maya Angelou, Tracy K Smith, Rita Dove, Gwendolyn Brooks, etc. but it all reads as fancy summer writing program homework.
She got pushed as the hot, new thing in a field desperate to gain relevancy with the Gen Z by issuing SJW brownie points for easy material. All the while upholding tried and true stereotypes we see across the upper echelons of academia which prefers to compartmentalize their minorities (i.e.- black people writing about black things).
It worked. Gorman went to Harvard (and therefore has access to the Obamas), is signed with IMG Models, and was interviewed by Oprah.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | May 24, 2023 2:05 PM |
Archived version of the article at r13
[quote] Take the poem away from the moment of delivery and look at the actual text, and The Hill We Climb turns out, I think, to be just a bit rubbish.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | May 24, 2023 2:08 PM |
Thanks! Now send that wetback back.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | May 24, 2023 2:09 PM |
Now you see, R1? I don't mind R19's criticism. At least R19 put effort into his critique.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | May 24, 2023 2:09 PM |
R15 Already posted R8.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | May 24, 2023 2:10 PM |
I hate Florida. Really honest question: how does anyone who is banning these books, attacking the gay community rationally justify that it is in furtherance of free speech? It obviously isn’t but I can’t understand how anyone who has passed first grade could even buy into that and obviously lots of idiots do. The Cato institute lists Florida as number 2 in support of libertarian values and doesn’t even mention any of these laws; meanwhile they go after other states for seatbelt laws. Even if it’s bullshit, what is their argument?
by Anonymous | reply 24 | May 24, 2023 2:15 PM |
Let's just remember that ALL of this bullshit they're doing in Florida started with unhinged progressives. Canceling everything and everyone they could. Now, it's happening on the far right. Why is this so shocking to anyone?
by Anonymous | reply 25 | May 24, 2023 2:15 PM |
R21 Gorman is black not latino. Wrong racial epithet.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | May 24, 2023 2:17 PM |
Both suck. A) The MAGAT parent and Florida for shutting gown a poet. And B) Gorman's poetry.
It's lose lose - many times, nowadays.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | May 24, 2023 2:19 PM |
R25, list all of the "unhinged progressive" things done as you omitted that word in describing the far-right...who tried to overthrow the entire govt, but that's not unhinged, right?
So your defense of the right-wing being fascistic is "You progressives made us beat you"?
by Anonymous | reply 28 | May 24, 2023 2:19 PM |
But I'm sure that ugly Cuban woman would be fine with the Ten Commandments in public schools, right?
by Anonymous | reply 30 | May 24, 2023 2:22 PM |
[quote]Without a single NOTE about the African slaver billionaires
For fuck sake, now you're just being an hysterical douchebag.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | May 24, 2023 2:23 PM |
[quote]Overrated hack.
I am so fucking sick and tired of the halfwits like r19 who absolutely flood Datalounge with their "it sucked anyway" excuses about EVERY bigoted thing that happens in the world.
Books get banned? Good, they were overrated anyway. Homophobic laws get passed? Good, teachers shouldn't talk about their private lives anyway. Stores have to take items off the shelves because of death threats? Good, they were tacky items anyway. Gay organizations get disinvited from a ceremony that was meant to honor their charitable work? Good, those fake nuns are offensive to Catholics anyway.
Fuck every single one of you who acts like this, you childish morons.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | May 24, 2023 2:24 PM |
Now if they banned it on literary-merit grounds you could see it . . .
by Anonymous | reply 33 | May 24, 2023 2:25 PM |
R32, at least R19 stated Florida is in the wrong, but I agree with you on the assholes who use their personal dislikes to be flippant about censorship or what is absolutely fascist.
You can dislike her work, but to be so apathetic about what is being done is pretty disgusting. It's not cute anymore being so unbothered by what the right-wing is doing and then stupidly trying to pull the "both sides" horseshit. This is why a terrorist, rapist, stupid dogshit became president and is allowed to run again. We've now normalized anti-democratic behavior.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | May 24, 2023 2:33 PM |
[quote][R32], at least [R19] stated Florida is in the wrong
With respect, I don't think adding a little postscript in the name field that says Florida is wrong is really saying much.
Did you guys know that only people who are logged in can see what's in the Posted By line? So anyone who isn't a DLer and who happens to see r19's post won't see that "Florida is wrong" signature.
Not that this is an important point, I just don't think most people on DL know that's how these threads look when you're not logged in.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | May 24, 2023 2:41 PM |
r25 in the *Why is violence against men still considered funny/acceptable to some degree?* thread:
[quote]OP, remember that DL is trolled by a lot of lesbians and sexually frustrated white women over the age of 50. So of course they’re going to take issue with you. The truth is that we’re in a matriarchal society. The myth of male power is just that, a myth. And women often find the abuse and torture of men as either humorous or justified. Most of them are vile.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | May 24, 2023 3:38 PM |
Some of us think Gorman is mediocre at best and an identity artist, not a poet. We have a right to that opinion and we don't have to shut up because some deplorable racist cunts want to censor her. I don't want to censor her. And she still mostly sucks.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | May 24, 2023 10:26 PM |
R3, you still don't want to admit that I was right, and everyone agrees with me. Ha!
R1
by Anonymous | reply 39 | May 26, 2023 1:21 AM |
“I’m not a reader. I’m not a book person,” says Florida woman who was caught promoting a Nazi propaganda book on her Facebook page.
This is the same non-reading woman who got Amanda Gorman's poetry restricted in a Florida public school.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | May 26, 2023 1:22 PM |
[quote] Let's just remember that ALL of this bullshit they're doing in Florida started with unhinged progressives. Canceling everything and everyone they could. Now, it's happening on the far right. Why is this so shocking to anyone?
BULLSHIT!!! Cancelling a teacher who quotes Hitler -- an enemy of America, thousands of American men died defeating him -- is not the same as cancelling an inauguration poem intended to inspire ALL American to move toward a more perfect union!!! This white supremacy run amok, Americans finding nazism preferable to democracy. What a f*cking hateful moron you are to compare the two!
by Anonymous | reply 41 | May 26, 2023 1:29 PM |
Florida is nuts. But it's getting worse in other places too. We're doomed.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | May 26, 2023 5:16 PM |
R38 sucks and probably reads Nicholas Sparks. Your "identity" comments give you away
by Anonymous | reply 44 | May 26, 2023 8:19 PM |
R27 thinks we should ban anything he doesn't like. How would you feel if someone banned the Bill O'Reilly books that you love so much?
by Anonymous | reply 45 | May 26, 2023 8:21 PM |
Book-banning moms = Klanned Karenhood
by Anonymous | reply 46 | May 26, 2023 8:21 PM |
If these book-burning PTA CUNTS knew how to read, then they'd be able to get real jobs and wouldn't be stuck trading gash for a shot at a working man's whiskey.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | May 26, 2023 8:29 PM |
[quote]Some of us think Gorman is mediocre at best and an identity artist, not a poet. We have a right to that opinion and we don't have to shut up because some deplorable racist cunts want to censor her. I don't want to censor her. And she still mostly sucks.
Do you need attention, r38? Is that what you need?
by Anonymous | reply 48 | May 26, 2023 8:41 PM |
Nazi mom "apologizes":
*The Florida mother who complained that Amanda Gorman's poem "The Hill We Climb" is hate speech, which prompted a high school to restrict access to the works, was busted for posting antisemitic memes on her Facebook page.
Daily Salinas is now apologizing, claiming she has "love" for the Jewish community, Jewish Telegraphic Agency reports.
"I want to apologize to the Jewish community," Salinas told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on Wednesday. According to the outlet, she was called out for sharing portions of "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," on social media, which is "a notorious antisemitic forgery written more than a century ago in Russia," JTA writes.
"I'm not what the post says," Salinas said. "I love the Jewish community."
by Anonymous | reply 49 | May 27, 2023 9:52 PM |
She posted a notorious, and all too influential, anti-Jewish forgery but says she loves the Jewish community? Why do we let these fascist bottom-feeders get away with their backpedaling and gaslighting?
by Anonymous | reply 50 | May 27, 2023 10:22 PM |
Nobody in the Jewish community should give a shit about this woman. Nobody in any community should.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | May 27, 2023 10:35 PM |
R49 Thanks for finding this.
What a cunt.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | May 28, 2023 3:05 AM |
R1 gave himself 17 w&w votes.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | May 28, 2023 3:41 AM |
R53, envy becomes you.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | May 28, 2023 4:25 PM |
Cunt who started the bans says she only read parts of the works.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | May 29, 2023 8:38 PM |