„Vicious Compliance“: Alberta Premier Decriies Decriies Edmonton Public Schools „verbotene Buchliste“
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-premier-smith-edmonton-public-schools-banned-books-1.7621238
„Vicious Compliance“: Alberta Premier Decriies Decriies Edmonton Public Schools „verbotene Buchliste“
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-premier-smith-edmonton-public-schools-banned-books-1.7621238
11 Kommentare
It’s cute how she’s trying to talk out of both sides of her mouth now that this travesty has been exposed to the public.
And by cute, I mean tacky, shitty, and predictable.
I mean, I don’t know what you expected. You banned books with explicit sexual content, and the Handmaid’s Tale depicts graphic sex. So does George R.R. Martin, to an even greater degree than the HBO show. If graphic and lyrical descriptions of sex are the problem, then all of these books are quite right to be on the list.
If she thinks these are ‚malicious compliance‘, she clearly doesn’t care about explicit sexual content at all. As a statement it makes it obvious she’s intending to specifically target LGBTQ literature, and is angry the school district didn’t understand ’sexually explicit‘ as a dogwhistle for ‚queer‘.
I’m guessing she’s actually facing some backlash from Albertans for once? Or legal pressure? Or she’s just trying to appear moderate with some careful political messaging
“How dare they follow the rules that we wrote poorly!”
You know, hearing politicians and “concerned” parents groups complain about some sex-ed book because there were wieners or trans people in them really hearkens me back to riding the bus in like 9th grade where my friends would talk about the stuff they found on 4chan, which notably included video footage of that, uh, “horse guy” in Washington state. I don’t think these people understand what kids have access to nowadays.
What did she expect? This is what happens when you put out a sloppily drafted policy. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want sexually graphic works in my children’s school library but I trust the librarians to use their discretion. This top-down ham fisted approach doesn’t work.
The malicious compliance approach is the correct way to respond to this manufactured crisis. Remove every book within a hairs‘ breadth of the boundaries of the legislation, and force Smith and her cohorts to provide greater precision and clarity by what they *really* want to have removed. As it stands, [the MO is denying any and all literature with explicit sex, or non-explicit sex in isolation](https://kings-printer.alberta.ca/Documents/MinOrders/2025/Education_and_Childcare/2025_030_Education_and_Childcare.pdf).
First of all. How the hell did any berserk mangas make it into the school library? More importantly why is 9nly the 3rd volume banned?
Edmonton is the capital of Alberta. I’m sceptical that the Albertan government had no inkling about this.
I feel like it’s the same thing than with Alberta separatism. The provincial government says that it doesn’t support it but it does allow it…
Sounds like Marlaina can’t communicate for crap, kind of an important skill to have as premier.
Plus, the teachers are simply being consistent with what themes to ban, if there is a problem maybe it is because there is a hidden agenda and it certainly isn’t about protecting kids (especially if you also don’t want things like consent being taught)
Vicious compliance is what happens when you make stupid rules. Then you have to make even stupider rules, which creates more vicious compliance.
It’s a malicious circle.
„So change the law that spells out which type of book you want to ban. Oh wait, that might expose who you are and open yourself up to a charter challenge. „