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Removing sexually explicit books from a public school library =/= book ban.
Yeah like Catcher in The Rye and 1984… oh wait
You're right. Let's go ahead and remove all the naked statues from museums, the paintings of naked people, any media mentioning rape, abuse, or even normal teens having sex, and any hint that lgbtq people existed before Will and Grace.
So happy my children are protected from all this porn! Sure hope they remember how protected from porn they are if they happen to be in the 1/3 of people who are sexually abused before the age of 18 and have no way to know what happened, how to deal with it, or how to find support.
That's what they want. They want children to be abused, espically LGBT children. They're starting with children because they're an easy target. They have no rights and conservatives want to keep.it that way
Has Texas banned the bible yet, the book cotains a lot of sexually explicit imagery and moments of rape and murder
Also incest.
Lots and lots of incest actually.
I actually can't think of a book with more incest than the Bible.
Oh yeah, because we all know sexually explicit books were just all over in public school libraries. Those kids were reading so many sexual books at school libraries. It was such a problem for so many years and everyone thought it was ok until just now. And of course the only books being removed are actually explicit ones. There's not a single one that just has to do with LGBTQ people that regressives are calling sexual because they want to equate being publicly not straight as being publicly sexual. Of course not. And of course they didn't ban any books about racism. Nope. Never.
Yes, people are calling it a book ban. And yes, that is an apt term. They are banning books from school libraries. It doesn't have to be a blanket nation/state wide ban to be called a ban. It's still a ban even when you ban something from specific locations.
What do you call it when they remove books that aren't sexually explicit but deal with LGBTQ+ and anti-racism themes?