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Tuesday, December 28, 2021

This Bitch: Rob Standridge

Well, first it was Texas, and now it’s Oklahoma trying to turn its citizens into Money Grubbing Vigilantes.

You recall that in Texas you can make money if you squeal on a neighbor who went to Planned Parenthood or rat out an Uber driver who took a woman to a clinic. Now, in Oklahoma, because they like looking more ignorant than Texas, a GOP lawmaker, Rob Standridge, has introduced a bill that would give any parent the power to ban books in school districts. The legislation further empowers those parents to collect at least $10,000 for each day a book is not removed.

So a parent demands a book be removed from their school district and if the book isn’t they’ll make ten grand a day. It’s like Publisher’s Clearing House for Nazi Book Burning Homophobes.

Oh, I forgot; I say homophobes, because the bill seeks to ban all books "that make as their primary subject the study of sex, sexual preferences, sexual activity, sexual perversion, sex-based classifications, sexual identity, or gender identity or books that are of a sexual nature that a reasonable parent or legal guardian would want to know of or approve of prior to their child being exposed to it."

And so when a conservative ignorant Republican still believing they live in the 1950s believes a book violates these guidelines, they would be able to request in writing that it be removed from the library and if it isn’t they will be paid $10,000 a day; and any school employee who fails to remove the book within 30 days of the request "shall be dismissed or not reemployed."

Standridge said that he has concerns about books like “Trans Teen Survival Guide,” “Quick and Easy Guide to Queer and Trans Identities, “A Quick and Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns,” and “The Art of Drag,” though he knows that his bill will end up in court, but he doesn’t care.

As long as he can find a way to make hate pay, he’s all good.