I was listening to your wrong about, One story was about a person with a library card changing their mind about LGBTQA rights and conversion therapy. Because they read books from the community. Weird. Perspective fosters empathy and growth. Dangerous dangerous stuff.
Maybe you are on to something 🤔
My only concern is that they have no problem with actual representations of child sexual abuse…it’s worth a shot, nothing to lose.
tbh i think the default assumed motivation for book banners like this should be "so their kids can't accurately describe what their pastor is doing to them to the authorities"
Unless you are homeschooling your kid, keeping them off all computers/phones and not letting them hang out with friends, they're going to see it all at some point
Of course if you did do all that, congrats 🎉 your kid is probably socially stunted and will be worse off once they see the real world
And there are trans kids who have died in recent memory because their parents tried that, so it's a matter of "if" they see the real world with that thorough of abuse
Yeah, I think it depends on what is being banned. I realize kids can probably get on Pornhub but I still don't think Hustler or Barely 18 should be in school libraries. I absolutely support free thought of any literary works. (No, Playboy still doesn't count tho, even if "just for the articles")
All the school librarians out there who want to spend all their time cataloguing old porn had better to take notice that at least some concerned citizens think they ought to be cataloguing books on how to read well instead
I realize respondibg to you is a mistake, but this “pastor” is unhinged. Pictures of naked people are not inherently sexual, and the idea that they are is part of the attitude that allows predators to exploit children.