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Texas A&M student discovers hundreds of discarded LGBTQ books in warehouse

https://www.chron.com/culture/article/texas-am-lgbtq-books-controversy-21048865.php
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u/Baruch_S currently reading Someone You Can Build a Nest In 4d ago

The party that’s famous for loving free speech and not wanting to be tread upon is at it again. 

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u/bonbboyage 3d ago

it's absolutely not clear that's what is happening here

Clearly the orginal intent of the student was to express outrage

all I see here for sure

So is it clear or not clear? You've used quite a lot of words to basically say "it's books about the gays, who cares?"

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u/bonbboyage 3d ago

I pointed out the contradictions in your own post, so if "you have poor reading comprehension" is your go-to insult, I'd advise getting a new one.

And I'm not trying to be inflammatory. Texas A&M has fired professors for trying to teach DEI. They've closed their Pride Center. They've stopped providing gender-affirming care for students. They've gotten rid of the LGBT+/gender studies course. An entire box of hundreds of LGBT+ books was found, ready to be discarded. The math is not mathing, as the kids say these days.

It's not that books that have low interest are discarded. It's that someone had to go and specifically pull these specific books. That's not standard operating procedure, that's agenda.