Comments by "Steve" (@Steve-ev6vx) on "Did Two Republican Missouri Senators Burn Books?" video.

@sonicpsycho13 Not the same thing as books describing how gay people have sex in graphic detail so know how to be gay. That's just crazy. It doesn't matter though, kids don't go to the school library. I was a heavy reader as a child, read adult novels by age 10, and still never went to the school libraries. It was a bunch of old books for little kids, and I had stopped reading goosebumps and other such garbage by the time I was in middle school. I read kids books for about 2 years before I moved on.
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@sonicpsycho13 sex ed was never about how to have sex, gay or otherwise. In 5th grade they should only be teaching you about your bodily functions and how to take care of yourself. The how to part didn't come until highschool, and no gay sex shouldn't even be part of that. If you are gay you will know. I am talking about the books in middle schools that had pictures of gay guys blowing each other and such, that has no place in a school.
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@bengreen171 Ok, so not actually shooting people. You made it sound like they were going out and mowing people down with a gun. I personally don't see shooting beer cans as that big of a deal. I thought it was stupid, but they never pointed guns at people. And civilian AR's aren't machine guns, any way shape or form.
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There is nothing wrong with burning a book you paid for or having certain books removed from public schools. This is not the same as hundreds of years ago when they tried to burn all the books of a genre in existence. That would be impossible now. Burning a book now is not the same as it was a long, long time ago. In the digital age you can't remove information by burning some books.
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@TheBKnight3 No it's isn't. 80 years ago there was no internet. Now burning books is just a statement, it doesn't have any real world impacts. Really it had no impact after the printing press was invented. It only really worked when books had to be hand copied.
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@bengreen171 When were GOP lawmakers shooting up anything with machine guns?
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@jturtle5318 sex scenes don't bother me at all. I have been seeing gay, straight, and everything in between portrayed in the books I have read, especially while studying in college. It doesn't bother me or really effect me in anyway. The issue is parents not wanting their kids exposed to such material. I don't have kids so don't really care, but I see their point.
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@jturtle5318 yeah I am sure that made scenario has happened a bunch of times...
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@jturtle5318 You want a free place to stay, you gotta follow your parents rules. Just don't have sex until you are an adult, gay or otherwise. And what does that have to do with the topic at hand?
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@sonicpsycho13 Yeah I took sex ed in school. In middle school they broke the boys and girls up and most of what we learned were about our own bodies. Yes they touched on intercourse and safe sex, but nothing graphic. They didn't keep the boys and girls together and go into detail until 9th grade, highschool freshman biology. And none of my friends got pregnant or had std's. We all already knew more about sex from the media by that time. What they didn't do was teach us anything about healthy interpersonal relationships.
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@jturtle5318 cis-het aren't real words. They are just made up garble by people in denial.
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@sonicpsycho13 I could see some parents having a big problem with teachers telling their children it's ok to be gay or bisexual.
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@sonicpsycho13 Not sure if I agree that is a bigot.
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@tacticalbotdeveloper714 One person in this thread basically said it would be bigoted not to graphically teach young kids about gay sex. It's fcking crazy. I use to be pretty liberal on a lot of social issues, but I just can't go down that road.
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@tacticalbotdeveloper714 The Canada thing was funny. When they found out they had a Ukrainian who fought the Soviets in WWII I don't think they even stopped to consider what that meant, and who he would have had to be associated. The Ukrainian issue is a tough one for me though. My grandfather was a war orphan from Poland, I have no love loss for the Russians or Germans.
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