Tag: censorship

Categories
GOP

AOC Shreds Republicans For Banning A Book About Rosa Parks Because It’s ‘Too Woke’

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) slammed House Republicans and other members of the GOP across the country as they engage in blatant censorship of anything they consider to be “woke,” even though their definition of the word seems to include any subject that might require people to open their minds to other points of view.

During debate on the Republican-sponsored Parents Bill of Rights Act in the House of Representatives, Ocasio-Cortez said what bothers her the most about the legislation (which passed on Friday) is the way it arbitrarily bans some books that every young person should read.

“Look at these books that have already been banned due to Republican measures. ‘The Life of Rosa Parks,’ this apparently is ‘too woke’ by the Republican Party. ‘Song of Solomon’ is ‘unacceptable’ to Republican politics.”

The real intent of the law, AOC noted, isn’t to give parents more information about their kid’s education, but to place controls on what students can and cannot read.

According to The New York Times, a textbook publisher who provides reading materials to 45,000 Florida schools recently removed any reference of Rosa Parks’ race in a draft lesson plan for the Sunshine State to comply with Gov. Ron DeSantis’ (R) “Stop WOKE Act,” of which the governor noted, “In Florida we are taking a stand against the state-sanctioned racism that is critical race theory. “We won’t allow Florida tax dollars to be spent teaching our kids to hate our country or to hate each other.”

Ocasio-Cortez said she also found it interesting that nearly half the banned books deal with LGBTQ issues:

“This Republican bill is asking the government to force the outing of LGBT people before they are read. And talking about the rights of parents in this gallery today, the National Parents Union is here saying, ‘Don’t do this.’

“When we talk about progressive values, I can say what my progressive value is,” said Ocasio-Cortez. “And that is freedom over fascism.”






Categories
Congress education GOP WTF?!

Marjorie Taylor Greene And George Santos Introduce Legislation To Ban Books From Schools

Republican Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA) and George Santos (NY) have introduced legislation that would ban some books from public schools across the United States.

According to LGBTQ Nation, the bill is H.R. 863 and was filed last week by Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL), who claims the purpose of the law is to “end the sexualization of children in schools.”

The full text of the bill has not been uploaded to the Congressional database and Mills hasn’t posted it to his website yet, but its description says its purpose is “to amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit a publishing house from knowingly furnishing sexually explicit material to a school or an educational agency, to prohibit Federal funds from being provided to a school that obtains or an educational agency that distributes sexually explicit material, and for other purposes.”

[…]

The bill also dovetails with right-wing fear about “pornography” in schools. Many right-wing activists over the past several years have called any book that discusses sexuality at all “pornography,” including books that discuss non-heterosexual family structures. The language has been used to raise the stakes as conservative parents try to get books by LGBTQ+ authors banned from school districts.

Of course, schools aren’t distributing porn to students and never have. But it seems that some right-wing Republicans (i.e. the majority of the party) are eager to try and suggest otherwise in a desperate attempt to appear they have any original ideas about what young people should learn while in school.

Ironically, Santos is openly gay. Which makes you wonder why Greene has suddenly become his BFF. After all, she has repeatedly claimed that LGBTQ Americans are trying to “groom” children in an attempt to recruit and sexualize them.

Santos has even said that same-sex couples should not be allowed to raise children, telling conservative host John Stubbins:

“The family unit has been under attack for decades, decades. In different ways, right? The flavor of the decade is same-sex couples. ‘Oh, that’s so OK!’ Look, to each their own, I don’t have anything against that but they’re teaching in school how kids that, you know, you don’t need a mommy and a daddy, you can have two mommies, you can have two daddies. I think that’s a little much for kids, right?”

Categories
education Religion Right Wing Morons Uncategorized

WATCH Pro-Trumpers Get Tricked Into Agreeing The Bible Should Be Banned From Schools

All over the country, conservatives and right wingers are trying to have certain books banned from classrooms and school libraries because they insist the content of the books is inappropriate for young people.

NBC News compiled a list of 50 books that parents in Texas want removed from schools, including some that have impeccable literary credentials. Here’s a couple of examples:

“The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison: This classic novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison should be banned from schools, according to a parent in the Fort Worth suburb of Birdville, because it includes a graphic description of rape. 

“White Bird: A Wonder Story” by R.J. Palacio: A parent in the Spring Branch ISD said this graphic novel — about a Jewish teen living in France after Nazis seized power — should be banned because it’s “biased” and could lead to the “skewing of a young child’s mind.”

So exactly what is “acceptable” for young readers? The only possible solution would seem to be refusing to let young people read anything at all because they might encounter something that offends their parents.

But would the Bible be acceptable to those parents? Nope. Not even the “Good Book” gets a thumbs up from people who were interviewed by a group that calls itself the Good Liars, which consists of two guys, Jason Selvig and Davram Stiefler. They asked people if they thought the story of two daughters who get their father drunk (the story of Lot) and then have sex with him was something young people should read, according to the Daily Dot:

“There’s a book that we’ve seen that’s in libraries in lots of schools that features a story of two daughters having sex with their dad,” Jason Selvig said to a couple, one of whom was wearing a MAGA hat. 

In another clip, Davram Stiefler elaborates to a different women wearing an American flag pin: “They get their dad drunk to have sex with him.”

The reactions of all three people are strictly negative, with the couple immediately agreeing the book in question needs to be banned from schools.

“Why do kids need to read that?” MAGA Hat asks.

“That book is actually the Bible,” Stiefler tells the woman in the other clip, and suddenly, her whole demeanor changes. 

Think about it: Do you want your kids reading about incest and stoning people to death? Probably not. Which means you need to keep the Bible out of your house, the library, all churches, etc. Because someone might get the wrong idea and try to imitate that kind of behavior.

How sweet to see so much irony and hypocrisy wrapped in a neat package for the right-wing zealots to choke on.