Kevin McBean

Interested in literature, education, and politics.

[Kevin McBean @kmcbean]

@GlobalEdmonton @demetriosnAB didn’t you climb Mount Kilimanjaro in some publicity stunt before gleefully cutting funding to programs doing the work? Truly you have no shame.

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@ABDanielleSmith @EdmontonChamber Decimating a public education system isn’t how you help the markets…. Unless your goal is to help only the wealthy and your well-connected friends. Oh wait…

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@ABDanielleSmith The most recent proposal put forward by the ATA was very reasonable and would address all these problems. Why are you refusing to consider it?

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@McAllisterBruce Suggesting a child be beaten for expressing an opinion is not just an “inappropriate remark.” It reveals everything about your party’s belief in open dialogue and democracy and the voice of young people. Absolutely disgusting display.

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@dduperreault @Miss_Courtney87 @MargaretAtwood But do parents get to decide what other children can’t read? Anyway, your profile says you’re in Toronto so maybe just keep your support for fascism contained to your own province.

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@dduperreault @Miss_Courtney87 @MargaretAtwood In any case, the joy of reading is that you can find a book that suits your own interests. And if it’s good for you, then no one else should ban it and tell you that you can’t read it. Isn’t that freedom?

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@dduperreault @Miss_Courtney87 @MargaretAtwood You must be a boring person.

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@cindylynn_ @MargaretAtwood They were never in elementary schools. Like you honestly think that someone working in a school said “we should buy these graphic novels! The 8 year olds will love them!”? The problem is that the MO requires the removal of many books from junior highs and high schools.

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@cindylynn_ @MargaretAtwood Are 5th graders reading this content, Cindy? Get real. Are you advocating for properly finding library staff for all schools to ensure a good, age-appropriate collection? Or just caught in a moral panic about 4 cherry-picked images?

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@dduperreault @MargaretAtwood “Gender is a problem”- sounds like the title of Butler’s next book. Can’t wait to read it if it’s not banned here. Peace.

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@dduperreault @MargaretAtwood Not really sure what feminist theorists have to do with banning books in high schools? Anyway, I wish you well because it must be difficult to live in a world where you believe that a library book read by a handful of students is somehow responsible for mass indoctrination.

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@dduperreault @MargaretAtwood I mean, surely if one is commenting on the pace of the act, that would meet the threshold for “detailed” as outlined in the order?

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@dduperreault @MargaretAtwood But would you agree that when Offred describes the pace of The Commander’s “fucking” (her words), that it’s explicit?

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@dduperreault @MargaretAtwood So they should be banned? So you do support book bans then? It’s just so hard to follow the logic sometimes. And they should be banned because they “contain depictions” (defined in the MO as “a written passage or illustration” of “explicit sexual content”?

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@NateHornerAB That wasn’t what we asked for. Do better.

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@cindylynn_ @MargaretAtwood Actually that wasn’t the instruction. Please read the entire MO so that you understand.

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@dduperreault @MargaretAtwood To be clear, no one working in schools believes this novel should be banned. But according to the terms of the MO, that is what must happen. If you don’t support that, please call the minister of education and tell him to repeal it!

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@dduperreault @MargaretAtwood Mary. Read the MO in its entirety. Then read the novel in its entirety. Surely you will see that the book has scenes which meet the criteria of “explicit sexual content” as laid out in the MO and therefore must be banned in high schools. Do you support the MO or not?

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@5RandomName5 @FreeAlbertaRob Seek help.

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@FreeAlbertaRob These books meet the criteria of the order as written. They should not be banned. Are you really calling Canadian icon Margaret Laurence’s novels pornography? That is shockingly out of touch with reality.

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@FreeAlbertaRob But that’s not how your ministerial order is written and you know it. You knew, or ought to have known, that this would be the response from school boards. Maybe it’s tome to re-evaluate the language in the order?