Joe.My.God. LGBT News
From the editorial board of the New York Times:
Fights about free speech can feel rhetorical until they are not. Here’s what censorship looks like in practice: A student newspaper and journalism program in Nebraska shuttered for writing about pride month. The state of Oklahoma seeking to revoke the teaching certificate of an English teacher who shared a QR code that directed students to the Brooklyn Public Library’s online collection of banned books. A newly elected district attorney in Tennessee musing openly about jailing teachers and librarians.
In Florida today it may even be illegal for teachers to even talk about who they love or marry thanks to the state’s “Don’t Say Gay” law. Of course, it goes far beyond sex: The sunshine state’s Republican commissioner of education rejected 28 different math textbooks this year for including verboten content. Acts of censorship are often tacit admissions of weakness masquerading as strength.
Read the full editorial.
Trying to enshrine censorship into law is in an act of weakness masquerading as strength, writes the editorial board. “A political project convinced of the superiority of its ideas doesn’t need the power of the state to shield itself from competition.” https://t.co/xwHt0Z8jeY
— New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) September 11, 2022