Pirate's Cove

They say this like it’s a bad thing to keep minors from seeing pornography in government schools. Sure, the kiddies will see it elsewhere. It’s pretty easy on the Internet, of course. Back in my day we had to try and find a dirty magazine, or sneak a peek at HBO or something. Schools should not be teaching them this stuff, especially when it indoctrinates them and attempts to force them into adult sexuality (also at Yahoo, if the paywall hits you)

Conservatives are removing ‘pornographic’ books from schools. Many feature LGBTQ+ characters.

Last November, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott sent a letter to the state’s school board association asking it to remove from districts any materials deemed “pornographic” or “obscene.”

Both descriptors have come up frequently amid an extraordinary uptick in efforts to remove certain books from libraries and classrooms – not only in the Lone Star State but across the United States.

According to a new analysis by PEN America, Abbott’s endeavor – and the logic behind it – is emblematic of “a concerning trend” nationally. Critics are restricting children’s access to a host of books on the grounds that they contain too much sexual content. Those same books disproportionately feature LGBTQ+ characters or storylines.

This commonality is evocative of age-old tendencies to conflate sexual or gender nonconformity with sexual obscenity, said Jonathan Friedman of PEN America, a literary and free-speech organization.

No, porn is porn, and it has no place in schools, where children should be learning for their future, not the crazy these schools are foisting on them. What’s wrong with just letting kids be kids?

Roughly one in three of those titles – nearly 400 total – explicitly deal with LGBTQ+ issues. In fact, nearly all of the books at the top of the list, some of them banned in more than a dozen districts, fall into this category.

PEN America defines such bans as any action taken to remove, restrict or diminish access to a book based on its content. The action can be in response to complaints from a parent or community member or to direct or threatened action by government officials including lawmakers.

“It’s not just a backlash – it’s worse than that,” Friedman said. “It’s an attempted erasure of an emerging form of storytelling.”

Why is it necessary to teach adult sexual issues and pornographic material to minors, especially the ones who haven’t even hit puberty? Why? Why? In my heart I don’t get it. In my head, I understand that these leftist are unhinged, insane people who are attempting to indoctrinate children in perversions to make them reliable voters who won’t question anything their political masters push, even if it is detrimental to them.

Moms for Liberty, which has chapters nationwide and describes itself as a parents-rights organization, has been organizing to get certain titles off school shelves.

“The books that the moms are asking to take out of libraries almost always have obscene content; we’re talking pornographic, explicit material,” said Tiffany Justice, a mother of four and the organization’s co-founder. (snip)

“It’s not about homosexuality or heterosexuality,” she said. “It’s about … how much time and energy and thought should be going toward sex” before children enter puberty. (In Justice’s view, some books that are often flagged for their references to sexual violence – Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye,” and Khaled Hosseini’s “The Kite Runner,” for example – have a place in high school classrooms because of their “literary merit.”)

“These children are being sexualized at younger and younger ages,” she said. “If we don’t want 10- year-olds having sex, we should probably stop talking to them about it.” Exposing them to the kinds of images contained in “Gender Queer’ or the descriptions of sexual activity found in “All Boys Aren’t Blue,” Justice argued, is “robbing them of their innocence.”

What’s wrong with reading, writing, math, history, computers, arts, sports, etc? Liberals are bat shit crazy.

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