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Sometimes I read an article and particularly an opinion piece and think, There has To Be More To This Story.
The more is Republican Party’s lack of a substantive platform that instead focuses on culture war issues. They are working very to make themselves irrelevant to all but their brainwashed hardcore base.
Specious argument as most of the books involved aren’t To Kill a Mockingbird, Huck Finn, or similar titles. No one is banning books; what’s happening is people are wising up to age-inappropriate content and teachers touting personal ideologies. You can still go buy it and give it to YOUR 3rd grader if YOU choose. So called “book bans” are a canard the left trots out when someone brings up inappropriate materials in school libraries. Not content with giving inappropriate content to their own kids, the left instead insists on inflicting it on other people’s children.
There’s a lot of books out there that are age inappropriate, sexual and otherwise. Perhaps you can regale us with why books such as Lawn Boy, with it’s sexually explicit scenes and allusions to pedophilia, belong in a grade school library? Or perhaps you would like to post the sexually explicit illustrations from Gender Queer, a book also found in grade school and Jr. High libraries, on the front page of the IBJ? Why not just be honest with people Deb, and post the top ten “banned books’ in 2023. It won’t fit your narrative and there isn’t a Harper Lee or Mark Twain authored book on the list.
Thank you for the very well balanced article on book-banning.
It’s fascinating to see all the media attention on censorship focused on this relatively minor area of book banning, while meanwhile the FBI and other federal agencies are directing tech platforms to ban accurate speech – election reporting, pandemic reporting … the list goes on. But yeah, let’s “look over there” and focus on book banning, while the intelligence state polices our national discourse and selects our presidents. Eyes on the prize!