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Old 06-05-2023, 09:24 AM
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Originally Posted by Geodyssey View Post
What about your Talmud?
What about it? Have you read it? And what does that have to do with the current situation - that a law bans books for vulgarity and violence in the public school system, and one woman pointed out that a specific text "sacred" to an entire major religion in this country contains that violence and vulgarity, and therefore had to be removed.

If someone feels the Talmud fits the same category, then it should also be removed. OR - as I suggested - the law retconned and let students read these things FREEly - because y'know - land of the Free and all that.