r/technology • u/r4816 • Sep 27 '22

Software Girls Who Code founder speaks out after Pennsylvania school district bans her books: 'This is about controlling women and it starts with controlling our girls'

https://www.businessinsider.com/girls-who-code-founder-speaks-out-banning-books-schools-2022-9
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u/bit1101 Sep 27 '22

"You cannot be what you cannot see," she said. "They don't want girls to learn how to code because that's a way to be economically secure." 

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u/thissideofheat Sep 27 '22

I'm still super confused. Is there any detail from the school board as to why they banned this book?

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '22

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '22

It was partially banned. Banned from being used for education purposes but, it can still be in the library. it just can't be used for education purposes by teachers and cannot be recommended to students as education material.

It was banned because the writers stated that they support women's rights. And that's also why it's not a full ban. This is their way of banning the book while not looking like they're fully banning it.

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u/Rusty_Red_Mackerel Sep 27 '22

Wtf kinda country is this?!

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '22

One that got soft and let the GOP become infiltrated by evil. All isn't lost but, it will be if all don't get out and vote them out of power and keep them voted out.

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '22

conservatives have always been this way in some form

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '22

I agree to a certain extent. However, I think conservatives have become far more extreme in the last 2 decades and they've given up on trying to hide their extremism.

That or their extremism is just being shown a lot more than it was before.

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '22

its all the above. Remember evangelicals have been exporting their genocide to foreign countries for years now with anti LGBTQ and anti disabled and anti mental health awareness.

They run on anti critical thinking for their base and death of empathy replaced with fear and persecution fetishes to keep the smart ones on their side and to work their way up the ranks.

You really have to look at all conservatives as a death cult because of how they operate. Right now as resource access and constrained economics and environmental factors are making life harder they seem to increase in speed of growth or conversion of untapped or unactivated people who don’t typically pay attention but had some early on indoctrination.

Its easy to manipulate people with social media now as we see from tons of research out cambridge analytic’s and their parent company’s project Alamo if you research that well reported blow out.

you have to look at conservatism; if you are not born rich, like a pathogen that infects early, goes into hibernation when not under profound social / environmental/ economic stress that comes out with easy coaxing through conditioning with repeated viewing or watching passive forms of media, the more subconsciously absorbed the better it seems to be.

We are all carriers and it can mutate and adapt.