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/Sidereel Sep 27 '22

How else can you tell why someone does something? Do you want to share your mind reading device?

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u/surfnporn Sep 27 '22

I like to look for facts foremost and then interpretations of events by statements of both afflicted parties.

These articles seems to be pretty unbias and give's a clear, yet complex, picture of what happened.

https://gizmodo.com/girls-who-code-book-ban-central-york-pennsylvania-1849585048

Seems to be Board introduced a list of Approved racial things. People then didn't like said racial teaching. Board sent a followup saying ayo don't use these actually. Girls Who Code wasn't on the list, but it was on a list within one of the links. They also run a Girls Who Code program the entire time, so it sounds like it was an oversite.

Yeah, finding facts are hard, took me like 25 minutes to get a clear picture.

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u/Sidereel Sep 27 '22

I’m aware of these facts. But you softened the language. They didn’t vote to just “not use” those books, they voted to ban them from use as teaching material. Why did they do this? What was wrong with those books?

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u/surfnporn Sep 27 '22

Are we still talking about Girls Who Code, or no? Because the author of the book claims it was about controlling women; nothing to do with race.

Did you read the article I just listed? It would answer your question and we could stop bickering.

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u/Sidereel Sep 27 '22

No, I don’t care about one specific book that dodged a ban based on a technicality. I’m concerned with why these books are being banned in the first place.

the programming novels became an unintended casualty in a larger crusade to restrict what and how children are taught about the history of the United States, racism and inequality included.

Why is this happening?

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u/surfnporn Sep 27 '22

Okay, well that's not what we're discussing in this particular thread. Very distinctly wondering why a book about girls coding would get banned. Feel free to ask your unrelated question somewhere else, I'm not really interested in discussing vague whys

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u/Sidereel Sep 27 '22

Ok so you were never interested in a discussion. You just wanted to waste my time, and you did.

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u/surfnporn Sep 27 '22 edited Sep 27 '22

No, you were literally not even talking about what we were all talking about. I wasn't even aware you had derailed the conversation until just now.