Mike Luckovich for February 02, 2023

In Florida, guns are welcome and embraced, but it is books — knowledge — that is seen as a threat to the mindless historic, scientific and even mathematic illiteracy and innumeracy that the religious conservative establishment depends on to keep the ignorati voting for them.

The original sin of Judeo-Christian mythology? A woman daring to seek knowledge.

It goes all the way back to the very beginnings of the Bible, when Eve dared to think for herself and partook of the forbidden fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. And for today’s religious conservative establishment, it is not just knowledge about good and evil (which they are sorely lacking based on the precepts of even their own holy book), but knowledge of history, science and even math. Knowledge — especially in the hands of the women or minorities over whom they wish to wield control — is the greatest great to them which is why Trump “loves the uneducated.”

Books are knowledge. Books are the fruit dangling from the Tree of Knowledge.

Women with knowledge are the greatest threat to religious superstition.

According to the Bible legend, Adam and Eve could eat freely from any tree except the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, because knowledge represents free thought and free thought is the enemy of just existing as a mindless automaton.

Of course, if they were forbidden the Knowledge of Good and Evil, how could they know what was evil and what was not? How could they even know that disobedience was evil? A sin?

Ah, “mysterious ways” and all that.

Is that kid coming to school or leaving?

A book in a school in USA? Very unlikely.

Teachers are hiding books in Florida, just like teachers did in Nazi Germany.

Looks like De-Satan’s Florida public school Nazi-indoctrination program

DeathSatan is the opposite of Shemhazai’s scions, who believe all knowledge is worth having.

I wonder how anyone can justify these new “laws” with a straight face.

Florida has become a fascist state. DeSantis isn’t even pretending to uphold the constitution.

Parents should have a say in what their little darlings are taught without having to pay for private school. Woke and preachy classes should be electives. Funny cartoon however exhibiting Mike’s humor by exaggeration.

It is beyond understanding that Florida voters would choose Fascism.

Seems like the left missed the story of how the Black history AP course has been changed to cut out the CRT training. And the NYT referred to the deleted sections as “CRT” – so yes they do teach it.

Desatin is a total IDIOT!

Who in 2020 would have predicted that we would be sneaking abortion pills and books that are critical of the majority race into Florida and Texas?

“Is that a book in your backpack?”

“Yes sir. It’s Mein Kampf and it’s sequel, The Art of the Deal.”

“Pass, Friend.”

DeSantis has actually proposed that tenured college professors could have their tenure rescinded at any time for politically unpopular views!

Long standing truth is that the pen is mightier than the sword.. keep those books away from impressionable young minds.

“We can’t have you kids actually LEARNING THINGS, now can we?? Now, run along to your morning indoctrination session before you miss the lecture on the glories of Adolf Hitler…”

Some real Third Reich stuff going on in Florida. Is it just me or does Chris Rufo remind you of Joseph Goebbels(Third Reich Minister of Propaganda)?

The shape of things to come?

Unfortunately, it is the shape of things now.

“Where they burn books, they will, in the end, burn human beings too.” Heinrich Heine

Woke = Honest awareness of all the things the governor of florida does not want the citizens to know and learn about, obviously for nefarious reasons

I heard DeSantis was doing away with metal detectors, and, installing paper detectors in schools.

From NYT

“On Tuesday, DeSantis unveiled a proposal to overhaul higher education that would eliminate what he called “ideological conformity” by, among other things, mandating courses in Western civilization.

DeSantis, putting the moron in oxymoron.

Death Sentence is pandering to Traitor Trump’s base: racist grade school dropouts. That might or might not let him win the Republican nomination, but I doubt he could win a nationwide general election doing that. By the way, how many court challenges to his idiotic proposals are there already, with how many more to follow?

Be careful bookmobile drivers in Florida. DeRacist will have you arrested for transporting “incendiary”, non-caucasian “propaganda” across county lines.

It’s OK, it’s “Mein Kampf for Third Graders”

I was confused for awhile about what the “eff-eye” stood for in the sign. Female incontinence? Festering infection? Foreign interference? It eventually dawned on me that the 2nd character was supposed to be a lower-case “L”. But why? Not enuf room to spell out “Florida”?

In Florida, a mind is a terrible thing to educate.

Interesting story on fighting school board book bans:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/sep/20/us-book-bans-fight-school-library

“No, sir, just my new AR-15. They come in cool colors now, too!”

“Concealed carry for everyone is a godsend. Now go to class and be sure not to learn anything.”

The GOP: Cowardly afraid of knowledge that reveals their delusions and dislikes/hates.

“No sir, just my Glock”

Florida Man fixes WOKE by banning books.

Why are so many people in love with ignorance?

In Florida, you can bring a gun, but not a book!

Hey, they’re no against books per. se. They’d probably be fine with “Protocols of Learned Elders of Zion” or “Mein Kampf”.

It’s a book on guns, so it’s okay.