There are videos of p!ssed off parents reading excerpts from books in their children's libraries at school board meetings being censored. It's apparently ok for children to read these books, but it's inappropriate for adults to read them to other adults.
When I was a kid, the internet was a free-for-all wild west, and school was an restrictive, controlling, micro-managed hellscape. Now the internet is a restrictive, controlling, micro-managed hellscape and schools are apparently wild west-esque free-for-alls. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@FIREBRAND38 depends on who you're talking about, the thought leaders at the top are damn well aware of what they're doing, they're just pure evil. The upside down brained activist types just aren't smart enough to understand complex concepts like ethics and morality. And the biggest group of them is the normie liberals that don't really know what's going on.
It should be "Earl the Dying Girl and I". We had a Teacher once who we tricked into reading the novelised version of the Movie "Feeling Minnesota" out loud to us in class (in the 90s) she stopped reading after realising it was full of swears.
At the _very_ least, if it's inappropriate to be said in front of the _School Board_ then the School Board should not be able to approve it for schools.
I agree. I also don’t think anything in The Perks of Being a Wallflower falls even remotely in that category. It’s not an edgy or offensive book. It’s less R-rated than any Marvel movie. Also, it’s a sweet book. I feel defensive about that one. It was part of my 90s adolescence.
Whenever parents read books like "Genderqueer" at school board meetings they get shut down because it's too graphic to be read aloud for the adults on the board. Apparently the book is perfectly for the children in their districts.
As someone who once considered being a librarian, I am so disgusted that they think child 🌽in books is okay. Like no, people aren't complaining because they want to censor knowledge, they just don't like disgusting illegal content being peddled through the school system by woke predators.
In summation; those complaining about Republicans “banning” books haven’t read them, exaggerate the restrictions surrounding them, get off on children reading explicit material, or some combination thereof. Par for the course honestly.
That would be disturbing if I want to live in a world full of children being sexualized or only fascination is being sexualized. I'd rather someone make a book on how to "properly" overthrow the government. We'll see how they respond to that
It's extremely disturbing when the author says their book is not appropriate for children and the librarians are complaining that it is challenged for being inappropriate for children.
It’s even more disturbing when the public has said “this is not appropriate for adults, let alone children” and the author throws a fit because they wrote it to target it to children
I say the same thing when someone complains about vulgar books being "banned". If what you have to say is sooooo important... why is the book not free?
The problem is that the librarians didn't read the book before ordering multiple copies -- or whomever put it on the reading list. Most of these people don't understand age appropriateness.
no, 'under the guise of diversity' no one believes in diversity - it's just an excuse the left uses to try to get people to willingly step onto their plantation
Everyone repeat after me. There are no banned books in the US. None. Zero. Nada. Zilch. If you want a book, you can get it. There are no banned books and we really need to stop using that phrase.
If these books are appropriate, I dare a main stream tv reporter to read inappropriate passages on live TV and incur the Massive fines from the FCC. Put your money where your mouth is.
reminds me of a clip where a school had young teenagers do weird homework and when a mother complained in a school board hearing she was shut down quoting that homework because "it was not appropiate for such a hearing" (not 100% sure if it was a hearing tho, smth along those lines)
@@chrisgund88 You might be remembering the viral school board video that kicked all this off. I think it was the one in which the woman was at the podium reading excerpts from Gender Queer. She tried to read through the disgusting bits and the board was trying to talk over her to get her to stop reading because "there are children present and this is inappropriate." Something along those lines. What a bunch of complete morons. They basically admitted it on the spot that it is inappropriate. So what we all want to know is, why in the world is the school board protecting/justifying having that garbage in the school library (or worse as assigned reading material in class), if they say on the spot that it is inappropriate? GET THAT GARBAGE OUT OF SCHOOL! It's not book banning or any other buzzword the leftards are going to call it. There is a concept called "age-appropriate material" that is completely lost on the left. Parents can make a judgement for themselves OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL if they want their child to be exposed to this sodomy. You can screw up your own child all you want (have fun with that immoral hell), but leave everyone else and their kids alone. What happened to classics like Huck FIn, Tom Sawyer, and Moby Dick? Oh yeah, I forgot. All those are huwhite supreme books with racism, so lets replace it with X-rated adult themes instead. This is like those Liberal Logic 101 memes come to life.
The implications of banning a book with any sexual material are much further reaching then you may think. There are so many teen novels that involve sex.
Children aren't allowed into movie theatres to watch 18+ R rated movies, or buy adult magazines or video games in stores - no one is claiming the products themselves are "banned" If you think your kid can handle GTA V or Pulp Fiction you can buy it yourself and give it to them. What's particularly creepy about this is that there seems to be an effort by the schools to prevent parents from finding out that their kids are being exposed to sexually explicit material.
If you don't want your kid to check out a book from the library you can simply tell the librarian to not let them check it out. It's not the librarian's responsibility to parent your child.
There is a reason bookstores often have a "banned book" display, it's a selling point. Ignoring the irony of having dozens of "banned" books for sale to the public.
Bill Hicks did it best: WARNING: this album contains EVERYTHING your parents hate EVERYTHING the Church preaches against EVERYTHING the Government fears Enjoy, Bill Hicks.
The fact they have to conflate books not being in children school to them being banned outright, is more than enough to show how disingenuous these people are.
You cannot give children violent video games, but they want to show porno to them Criminals in prison, redrum pedosbears without murcy Their endgame is legalizing sex with children jus like in Weimar republic
ALA definition of banned: moving it out of the children’s section to the adult section and requiring adult supervision just like we do with movies. These people belong on the sex offender’s registry.
Saying a book, which has detailed instructions on gay sex, was banned because it's "claimed to be sexually explicit," is like a Lamborghini owner blasting down a highway, then saying the reason he received a speeding ticket is because the police, "claimed I was going too fast." It's all about controlling the narrative.
@ jadonlimoges1830 Totally right. People should all be allowed to drive way too fast to react to the other speeding drivers around them or other changes in environment. Not enough people die in traffic accidents yearly!
This has to do with what books are available to children NOT adults. But when 6 Dr Seuss books “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street”, “If I Ran the Zoo”, “McElligot's Pool”, “On Beyond Zebra!”, “Scrambled Eggs Super!” and “The Cat's Quizzer” are euphemistically “RETIRED” and even ADULTS can’t by them online or even purchase used copies on Ebay that is far closer to the definition of Banning than the previous examples that have to do with books available for children in children’s libraries.
They aren't banned. Choosing not to put them into public school libraries is not the same thing as banning them. Parents that want their kids to read these books can buy them or check them out at a normal public library.
The experiment in mass homeschooling lead to millions of parents realizing how terrible public education has become. Imagine what would happen if the AMA admitted that it's the parents responsibility to curate what their children read.
Right. We’re not trying to make them illegal. We just don’t want them around kids due to them having adult themes and in some cases being straight up porn. If you’re an adult and you wanna check them out, fine by me. Just leave the kids alone!
@Caitlyn Carvalho It also says to stone your kids for misbehaving, among many more spicy things. Maybe realize playing a game where I say "I cast fireball" isn't the same thing as actually trying to induce power from a demonic entity in real life. Next you'll say killing someone in a video game is murder.
@@paradoxelle481 Lmao. Take your meds and call your therapist. The bible contradicts itself because it's made up bullshit. The figurative novel you wrote proves that you actually do believe it, while still somehow seeing that it's also a load of shite.
@@millsrickman7703 we still agree about that, the left just sees that vulnerability as an opportunity for power. Regular people see it as a duty to protect them.
I am unlucky enough to have read the bluest eye as a part of a HIGH SCHOOL curriculum. It has absolutely disgusting scenes about things I can't even say here without having my account banned. Needless to say, its not for most adults, let alone teens.
I read this book in college. It’s a masterpiece, but I cannot imagine reading it as a high schooler. There are scenes from that book that haunt me to this day.
Read it in an nyc elementary school. We read the grape scene out loud in class. I swear it changed me. Hearing that is the only way a man could love his daughter. Gross. Being in the father’s head as he did that.
A parent took the book her 4th grader had checked out. Went to the school board meeting to complain. They were yawning right until she read from it. They had the guards remove her for profanity. The next parent asked how can it be available for kids but not acceptable here?
“I like how once the book gets read out loud it’s so gross and no questions it’s not for children.” My guy, he read something like 20 lines between several books. He’s clearly cherry-picking here.
@@Ryback6969 I’m just saying that he could easily be portraying the books to be something that does not accurately reflect what the books are trying to say. There was no significant plot synopsis or context to those lines.
@@ShermanDude2231 It's malice. The fact that this sh1t is ramping-up suggests that it's not being done by mistake. And it's funny how it's only conservatives and moderates and even liberals who aren't batsh1t crazy are the ones discovering these books.
my sister is an ultra lib librarian who is constantly spouting this BS. Thank you so much for making this. She often compares this nonsense with book burnings. Such tripe. I'm like yeah imagine a book so banned it sits on it's own specially curated shelf at barnes and noble!
She won’t understand this, but you might. Look into the books that were burned in 1930s Germany. You’ll find lots of sexually explicit material meant for children in the bonfire 😂 The Weimar Republic was the true birthplace of hedonistic modern psychology. Lots of psychologists questioning how young is too young to sleep with.
Turns out, lots of The Chosen psychologists felt there was no such thing as too young for sex. The insanity of modern times should have you question things from history. Why was Hitler elected into power? This very problem is a key to understanding why.
I thought "banned" meant you arent allowed to obtain it or find it anywhere because it is not allowed...I didnt know "banned" meant you cant get it in school but it is available LITERALLY everywhere else in the country smh...
Well you might have missed the part where we switched from English to 'Newspeak', but words now mean whatever the left needs them to mean depending on the audience and what wins them the argument at the time.
@@brycelarson1391 Except he didnt name any sides and you are the one bringing up partisanship. Even if "both sides" you cant deny that the people pushing the book banning narrative are manipulating language to lie to their followers.
It's pretty easy to call their bluff: Every time someone says these books are not sexually explicit and are acceptable for children, then ask them to post the images or excerpts with tags set for children.
There are parents who take these books to the school board and they get removed for reading “profanity and sexual nature”. Which is wierd that you can’t read it in the presence of children at the board meeting, but the classroom is A-okay to do so
Here’s what happens at school board meetings. 1) A parent says “Blank & Blank” is not appropriate. The school board says they’re full of it, and move on to the next speaker. 2) The next speaker then reads from the book in question, and their mic is cut off. What does that tell you? That the school board won’t debate a unionized staff member’s decision , and that their own ears can’t handle the “not safe for work” material that staff member purchased.
@@LightsaberGoBrrrrrr no, these books belong on sites like Tumblr, not only because of their content, but because of how poorly written they are. They are straight up insults to human intelligence... In my humble opinion, as the days and years continue to progress along with this insanity, the more and more I start to see our society resemble that of a certain dystopian book: A Brave New World
AND they recently talked crap about the freaking 'Super Mario Bros. Movie,' because they claimed that the song "Peaches" in it (You know, the song that the BAD GUY sings in it) is "Toxic" and "Misogynistic."
@@Adamguy2003 geez you would think that would get across that bowser didn’t love her for being her, but just superficial look and the power he would gain from it. Seriously I’ll bet that a lot of these “critics” never even watched the movie.
While incredibly dumb, that's new, low-hanging fruit. On a longer timeline this is from people who intentionally took Christ out of Christmas by, among other things, writing these kinds of secular 'holiday songs', otherwise encouraged the complete commercialization of the holiday, and ultimately still decided that the mere mention of the word 'Christmas' - after it has been desacralized to the point of meaninglessness in the wider society - is somehow offensive and exclusive.
(sigh) Did they not listen to that song? Pay close attention to what the girl's saying, Dems. She just says "oh, X relative will disapprove" while making no move whatsoever to actually leave, and then she asks the guy to pour her another drink. That's the entire song. Yes, it's implied, rather than outright stated, but she definitely doesn't want to leave. ...sorry. It's just so stupid.
Yeah I remember that, if you read the article, you would have learned that in some areas it is illegal to cover your breasts and being gay is illegal. Still in affect today.
*deep breath* I felt this on a molecular level, love me some nat geo I'm subscribed simply because they showed me the first bare breasts I ever saw. I'm waiting for my son to start digging through my thirty years collection of nat geo and discover himself like I did.
I used to work for a Librarian supply company. The company and a large percentage of the librarians associated with it are lesbians, transexuals and allies. I can say that my experience was them intending to spread lesbianism and transgenderism to children; not the older teens either. Some waxing poetic about making "baby-dykes" and trans-men/women out of teenagers (and these were women in their 30's to 50's). That company gave me a very bad feeling about scholastic employees and their associates.
it's like catholic priests having a many child molesters in their ranks. why are there so many , because that's how to get access . same with the crew you worked with . all the freaks want to spread their freekyness to the world so they can become accepted as normal. and they are succeeding especially the trans.
Little Richard - who struggled with his orientation his whole life - said that it was "contagious" and I agree with him. I think he'd know more about it than most folks.
MAUS is actually a very good piece of work, its an amazing representation of a WW2 survivor's story about the war and the holocaust. It was definitely a benefit to my COLLEGE level course on art and history. College.
I got assigned to read it in high school and I’m gonna be honest while I didn’t think much of it at the time since schools like to over play teaching about the holocaust to the point you get desensitized to it I agree that it’s a very well written account of the kind of things that happened
@@grigori9061 Yeah I agree. It literally feels like they are hammering you on the head with the horrifying "truth" of events like the Holocaust and trying to force it upon you to the point that their impact on society in general gets overblown.
Yeah I had to read it for a class in college too. But as a big comic book geek, I wasn't feeling it. I'm also pretty over WWII propaganda at this point.
When the debate devolves to the point that the opposition calls me a racist and bigot, I can only reply, "Fine. For the sake of argument, I'm a racist and bigot. How does that make sexually explicit books ok for children?"
Then they walk away and say they can’t interact with a racist and a bigot. Pretending in their own minds they won the argument. Then the post about how brave they were that day fighting a fascist who was trying to unalive them..
@@roninkraut6873 Yeah, that's like playing chess with a pigeon. The pigeon knocks all the pieces off the board, shits on the table, then struts around like it won the game.
@@arinerm1331 awesome analogy there. soo true. What's worse in in their "safe spaces' where only THEIR VIEW, THE MESSAGE can be shown they then get angry at you and suspend or out right ban you for questioning them. even if the person they banned happens to be a little bit of the group they say they protect. I say that because in a Facebook group about DnD meme posting someone asked how a all autistic campaign/group would run and someone mentioned that they are already there and how all autistic kids are normally Alphabet soup members. I questioned trying to understand that (while being potentially autistic, Ace, and yet centrist leaning conservative) and got suspended for a week (my third suspension in this group in the past YEAR) because I was flamebaiting and political (yet the lefties political views/message is perfectly fine.. questioning it is not cool) I assume my questioning of "are you sure that it isn't that, due to humans being social creatures, the autistics aren't just adopting mannerisms and tastes to the group that accepts them in fear of being ejected? I am not saying the Alphabet soup people are directly focusing on them (just anyone who can listen and is confused/curious) but i am insinuating that they are gaining a surge in numbers due to the fad/peer pressure of being an Alphabet person instead of a normal person. to be normal is to be the most evil vile thing in the world and so they call them by the Slur Cis (which i've been called when I wandered into an Open LGBT chat room and asked about it, and heard in a closed chat room that i infiltrated where the members outright said it is a derogatory slur.) they at first gave me no reasoning, and the suspension happened a few minutes after i got one person giving me an Angry emoji reaction. so i assume this snowflake woman.. or thing, reported me because I dared question THE MESSAGE.
@@jesseallen3109 Those in "protected class" identities **MUST** toe the party line! The protected class is too frail-minded to have its own opinions, according to the Leftist dogma. The Party is the savior, and the members daren't stray.
“tHeY aRe TrYiNg To BaN bOoKs bY rEqUiRiNg pArEnTaL cOnSeNt!” “That child isn’t allowed to watch R rated movies without parental consent! Get that child out of here!” Same people.
Theh also complain about 'fanservice' in anime just saying have yet to see a right wingers do the same but then again no one would be surprised either.
My favorite argument is that if I were to write what is in these books word-for-word in UA-cam comments, I would get kicked off UA-cam for being "offensive".
@STORY TIME WITH UNCLE KUMARAN funny thing… no? UA-cam’s bot doesn’t care at all, it just looks if there’s swear words and if it has them it removes them. So even then, innuendos and the like are fully allowed by youtube
I remember reading the bluest eye as a teenager. We had to pick a summer reading book and I picked this from the list. Multiple times in that book I broke down and cried over what was happening. There were also numerous graphic writings in the book that made me feel sick. Like there were very nasty and disgusting scenarios written out in that book.
You idiot, the law he is referring to is very explicit on what pornography is and can not be exposed to anyone under 18. Study law next time. Too bad you do not follow the laws already in the books.
Agreed, but it's a sad day when we have to give kudos to somebody for not throwing a tantrum because we are against them giving sexually explicit material to children.
@sgartner I would agree, except he's still pushing his explicit book on children and teens... Honesty isn't enough when it speaks counter to what he's actually doing, that being pushing his book in children and teens while saying it's not for children and teens. He's speaking out of both sides of his mouth, which means nothing he says is "honest".
It seems to me that the ALA members seem to forget that they work for the taxpayers, and that they need to curate their libraries with books that cater to the wants of their communities. And that the community is allowed to challenge and overrule them when they feel that the librarians decisions don't match up with the desires of the community.
Exactly, these people work for us. Children don't typically pay taxes. Pull the books. Do as you are told and shut up. If you don't like it, move to a leftist enclave where smut and depravity is endorsed. Why the parents want the books pulled is none of their concern IMO. We have to run these aholes out of leadership to make it happen. Honestly, if my kid was in the school I'd have her take out the book and it would disappear. Problem solved.
They forgot pretty much everything...why wouldn't they? We were a liberal society with no ability to draw a line in the sand. There was no line for them to cross, no opposition.
Democrats & leftists are least playing for keeps you should read Concept of the Political by Carl Schmitt except they don't care about the conservative aspect of Schmitt's work.
Well I have seen that trend with a lot of American (…) Associations. They often get funded by private companies to “help with research”. One example that comes to mind is the American Heart Association. They were funded almost two million dollars by the largest vegetable oil producer in the US and then shortly after published a study on why animal fats are supposedly worse for your health than plant based oils. There is a great video from What I learned Today on this exact situation.
If there's any book banning going on, it's being done by the librarians themselves during the selection and acquisition process by refusing to purchase materials that don't fit the official orthodoxy.
The challenges that stand out most to me are when someone reads excerpts at a school board meeting and the school board stops them because "inappropriate language," or (my fav!) "Stop! There are children present!" Exactly their point!!
R ratings are 16 and under require an adult, I believe. NC 17 means 17 and under are not permitted at all. So, if you're 17 or older you can go to R movies, provided you show an ID.
The following are all views championed by the left: ▪️Lower the voting age to 16 because they're so knowledgeable and worldly now. ▪️College students are not mature enough to be held responsible for student loans ▪️Children should have access to "gender affirming" medical care without parental consent or knowledge ▪️Stop trying 18yo suspects as adults, they're too immature to be held to that level of responsibility. ▪️Toddlers can choose their gender. Apparently, like so many other things, they consider maturity to be "fluid" or a "spectrum", depending on how it helps the party.
They sneak these books in, and know darn well what's in them, but AFTER the parents find out what the educators already knew, they get to claim they are being censored. The librarian screams out censorship as they groom your children 😂
Schools are choosing what books are in their libraries and are removing ones they don’t like? Wow, that’s absolutely crazy that schools have the autonomy to do that.
imagine being upset over not being able to groom kids... funny though, no one ever got this upset over movie theaters having age restrictions or every movie watched in school needing to be pg/pg13. but yall arent mindless sheep just doing what you are told right? lets be honest the only reason this is even an issue is because it has been turned political and you feel the need to cheerlead for your team no matter what. seriously why even argue against it? if you cared so much about your kid having the ability to read "the perks of being a wallflower" or whatever you can very easily go out and get it yourself. but you dont care about anyone reading any given book because its all about maintaining the political dogma. removing the books has no negative affect on anyones ability to r3ead the books if they want but keeping them in schools allows parents kids to have access to something they deem inappropriate. how selfish to argue in favor of something that doesnt negatively impact you but does someone else and all for what? absolutely nothing.
A Clockwork Orange was banned in my schools growing up. I still read it. Banned in schools doesn’t mean they are banned, it just means you have to go through your parents to get them.
The way I see it , if the book does not make you get sexually excited in the classroom, it's probably alright . Clockwork did not get me excited, so that is probably why they were allowed to push it in 11th/12th grade English class. (As opposed to the tripleXxx paperbacks I borrowed from my dear dad's secret collection I found in the basement ) .LMAO
Every last one of those weird fake "genders" and nonexistent pseudo-sexualities is nothing more than a weak-sauce euphemism for "Nobody wants to bang me."
As someone who read Maus for English class (I'm a Sophmore) I would not say it's self indulgent. It's a genuine story about a holocaust survivor. As far as language goes, there were around 3 sh*ts, and the other words were using the lord's name in vain. The nudity was not really anything beyond a Roman statue, it was used for illustrative purposes, not to be exploitative or sexual. I think with parental consent this could be a book for school curriculum, it is a compelling story. :) Just a genuine thought from someone who cares.
My guess is the focus of the story is what caused it to pop up on everyone's radar. It's a difficult subject for adults to talk about much less children so I get the caution. Remember this would potentially be available to K-12 kids.
@@tticusFinch Still dependable, but I do expect that most parents who care for their children's wellbeing understand what is good and not good for children to read.
So by their logic, if a book is not being used as teaching material in a classroom, that constitutes a "ban". By their logic, some 90% of books in the world are being banned in every school on earth as the vast majority of books in existence are not being used as teaching material in classes.
Maus is an amazing graphic novel it portrays adult topics and is pretty brutal at times I would defiantly understand why it wouldn't be in a school in general they've banned books that don't show the graphic stuff they're talking about and yet we won't ban a book that actual shows the horrible acts that doesn't seem correct
One of my college history professors even parroted the media’s narrative about Maus being banned. I had read the book many years back and was taken aback by that very scene. It’s almost as if none of these people have read these books.
Except Maus isn’t banned. I liked Maus, but I have horrible books from that era. Books that would be locked up if there were children in the house. In fact, as I age, I’m wondering where to send them since I want them to go to someone who understands the importance of these books.
To give them their due, the "book banning" is a fantastic line. Not only does it sound enough like "book burning" to create certain subconscious associations, but it makes something which is actually fairly reasonable, having some parental input into what books are available in school libraries, sound like absolute tyranny.
Exactly. And it works, which is why I have trouble seeing how we can win in 2024. They own all the media and big tech, and fighting against this sort of manipulation is going to be an uphill battle.
Especially appropriate when one considers the context of which books were burnt and what was in them, and who were responsible for them... Always gotta be a victim despite your wrongdoing... Crying out when hitting you, and what-not.
Is this the ALA claiming that queer authors can't write books that aren't explicit in nature, or that books portraying people struggling with their emotions must also include bedroom stuff? Because that says a lot about how _they_ look at a certain community ...
That part really ticks me off. There are plenty of age appropriate LGBT stories kids can read. And instead they choose to put these in libraries . Vile.
The author of at least one of those books literally said the book wasn't for kids but young adults(side note the side in the video is wrong young adults aren't 12 to 18 it's 18 to early 20s don't know what crack he took to think that) so it's more the libraries fault not the individual author so no lgbtq+ isn't going for your kids no more than Christian fanatics do saying we need prayer in school
@@dogwoodhillbilly im about 90% sure majority of these are the libraries fault they have a history of not checking the books they order (the amount of books in my school that are non lgbtq+ that are seriously fucked was astonishing) also I think part of it is the authors being told the book is banned by media and believing it without actually looking into it because of how divided politics has become so I don't think the lgbtq+ community as a whole is at fault
If I need to illustrate what's happening, I'll just show you the parallels. Here is an Old>New Marxist Revolutionary Dictionary. Bourgeoisie/bourgeois= white/"whiteness" Proletariat=Person of color/"lgbt" A Revolutionary/ class consciousness awakened=woke Classist/Counter-revolutionary=Racist/white supremacist Systemic Oppression, etc etc- most of the other revolutionary terms are the same. Mao called these terms Power Words- words imbued with "revolutionary meaning." In 1984 they were nicknamed newspeak. These words program the mind and shape perception with repetition. If you were thinking that maybe LGBT was a decent movement that was "hijacked" by communists, that would be incorrect. The first man to start the concept of "gay rights activism" was Harry Hay, a communist. It was meant to subvert the society from the beginning.
4:52 "Self-indulgemt graphic novel..." Thank you! _Maus_ is exactly that. He's not a Holocaust survivor, his parents were, and yet he manages to make the Holocaust all about him.
It’s still a very great graphic novel.. and let’s be honest most literature is self-indulgent.. take Jonathan Franzen.. or something like that .. besides it is a way to understand his Parents or at least his Father and understand what happened and the background for his religion and the shadow 2 world war have on it or something like that.. not every graphic novel should be something by Frank Miller .. now that is cringe 😱
@@roninkraut6873 No Frank fell off the slippery slope from a good writer to a bad one long ago. For ASBAR where he has Batman call Dick Grayson Age 12 a word you can't even put in the comments section of UA-cam anyone, commit murder with psychotic glee, and try to force Dick Grayson Age 12 to eat a rat all hours after his parents died while implying he might have abducted Robin if the mafia didn't kill Dick Grayson Age 12's parents. Or Holy Terror a poorly written and drawn post-9/11 diatribe that even Frank has admitted was a mistake.
aren't what they doing nowadays... making their ancestors' experiences to their own suffering demanding reparations that they don't even deserve. BTW, they have been enjoying a certain form of reparation which we are now call welfare for decades to come.
When I was a senior in high school, I had to get a permission slip signed to watch Schindler's list. Kids these days can get a book from the school library that has scenes of sexual intercourse detailed to the last drop.
There are three key takeaways here, with some commentary: 1.) These books are not being banned. They're usually removed from curriculum, moved to adult sections of the library, or removed from children's libraries. Parents can still access this content if they want it for their children. 2.) People are challenging these books primarily for adult content, usually not merely LGBT+ content. Things like pornographic sexual content and depictions of self-harm. Two additional notes here: 2a.) There have been *some* challenges to content that is LGBT+ content. *Tango Makes Three* depicts two gay penguins in a zoo (it's a true story) and it was challenged, but it does NOT depict anything graphic or sexual. It's just about how two male penguins raised a chick. It's pretty benign. Sometimes we push a bit too far and this is an example of us being a bit out of line (we need to keep it real or we'll have a harder time winning the argument). 2b.) There is a huge difference between what is acceptable to a 16 or 17 year-old and what is acceptable to a 13 or 14 year-old. Huge. If content is ok for the former, but not the latter, we need to make sure it is not in spaces accessible latter. 3.) The Left aggressively lies and exaggerates. We have to NOT do the same (see point 2a) and fight back with the truth. The truth is on our side and it is what will empower us to protect our children.
The left doesn't "aggressively lie and exaggerate" anymore than the right does your side has partial truth the same side pushing the Bible which has similar if not worse content if the books in this video are to be in the adult section(i do agree with that) then so do religious texts like the Bible and any other books with religious stories because those are just as harmful to children because it's effectively recruiting them into a cult
@@realsushrey I'm actually curious how else they could be interpreted (it more or less tells events as they happened). That said, I'm still not convinced there was anything in there that was banworthy. It implied a gay relationship, which is fine. It didn't have anything sexually explicit or inappropriate in there.
"The Bible has sex in it!" "So does your book, and unlike mine, it's extremely graphic and explicit about it." "Well, yeah, but our book says that sex with children is okay, while yours says that it's not! And it censors the sex with euphemisms instead of making it as smutty as possible! That's not fair!"
I read Crank and a bunch of other books by Ellen Hopkins when I was like 15 or 16 and it is definitely not for kids. Not even teens honestly. I had a friend who introduced the author to me and she obsessed over the main charachter and started using meth and other drugs in this crazy attempt to make her life like the book. She even started calling herself by the charachters name.
Same thing with that stupid book 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' by Hunter S. Thompson. No telling how many lives that book ruined by making drug abuse look "cool" and "intellectual".
This is interesting, when I was in high school, only junior level classes and above had the book “Maus”, and was part of the actual curriculum. Honestly, I don’t think that is a problem. It’s historical value to me seems legitimate, I feel as though too many people fail to understand how bad the holocaust actually was. I think senior classes would do well if shown the movie “Schindler's List” as well.
My highschool showed The Pianist which I felt was perfect since it showed two major events (Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and Warsaw Uprising) as well as kept the class really engaged. Ngl, that teacher spoiled us… gave us that movie followed by 13 days when we studied the cuban missile crisis
Fair enough. It's too bad that those who disagree with some of these challenges seem to lack the kind of calm & thoughtfulness that you display. Two questions: If there's no problem with MAUS being taught to junior & senior high schoolers, does mean it isn't quite suitable for some or many younger kids? And: Is MAUS being taught or offered to kids below junior high? I don't know. Just asking.
Lord I remember reading the Bluest Eye in 12th grade. Everyone in my class was disgusted after reading it, and this is the same class that read Lord of the Flies and Catcher in the Rye with no problems. I remember one of the girls in my class was so disgusted with it she refused to write the essay after reading it. The ending is depressing as hell.
Banning inappropriate books from school libraries equals bad. Changing the text of popular literature, without the author's consent, because it offends certain adults equals good.
Yet they claimed far-right Christians shove religion down people's throats, which is sometimes true. However, the left also shove their woke religion down children's throats. The hypocrisy of both sides is real! We also should have a choice to stay straight!
I don't see a lot of "hypocrisy" from the religious fundamentalists. They're pretty open about their desire for public censorship and, in the case of Islamic fundamentalists, even private censorship. The "hypocrisy" seems pretty much limited to the Democrats.
Not their end goal - they want the kids not to understand who their friends or enemies are so they can raid the treasury while we set our own kids straight. None of this is about “trans,” it’s about starting a fire in your kitchen so you can’t stop them from robbing your safe while you put it out.
THANK YOU! On the reddit book forum there was a discussion about this weeks ago and I desperately tried to explain what is ACTUALLY happening! Nobody talks about banning books in public libraries or in general, it's about keeping adult fiction out of elementary and middle schools, not even high school. I was reading above my age level as a kid and allowed to take pretty much anything home from the school library. I read teen romances with explicit sex scenes, gone wrong drug deals, rape and crime novels and brutal thrillers when I was 8-12. These books ABSOLUTELY f*cked me up! It doesn't matter if it's just 2 pages. 2 pages is certainly enough. Movies, shows, even music, all of it has content warnings/age restrictions EXCEPT books! You can slap a beautifully, glittery pink cover on any filth and legally sell and market it to children. Nobody can keep up to date with all of the stuff that is published today. Librarians, teachers and parents do not stand a chance. We need flairs for books so that we can categorize them more easily. There should be a label on every book if it contains explicit sex, self harm, suicide etc. Fantasy p*rn like Sarah J. Mass's stuff is in the damn YA section! I've seen 12yos read it. Her books aren't Harry Potter or even The Shadow Hunters. Sex and romance are no longer hinted at but explicitly described. It's not the same. Those depictions of sexuality are just as inappropriate as video p*rn, since the sex shown is not realistic in any way (usually). Is it fun to read if you're an adult who already experienced sex irl? Sure. Is is misguiding (at best) to teens? Again, sure. Boys are targeted by p*rn online, girls by the written version of it.
I love how they say "young adult" when they talk about books, but when a 19 year old black man commits armed robbery, then they say "he was just a kid".
That's exactly their method: black is white, up is down, war is peace, freedom is slavery, etc etc etc. Destroy definitions, and you destroy thought -- and a man who can't think is easy to conquer.
Is it a restriction when movie theaters demand ID to see a rated R movie? Is it a restriction when GameStop demands parental consent to purchase a rated M game?
Isn’t Huckleberry Finn banned in multiple schools? How come these liberals aren’t criticizing the banning of that book? Oh wait I guess it’s okay to ban SOME books, right?
How about we just let kids read if they want to? I'd love it if we had the most famous book for these dumbasses banned for this shit at 3:00, but it's literally the Christian bible.
Can’t believe taking explicit books off school shelves is even a conversation we have to have. I’m an adult, with proper emotional adjustment and reasoning skills and I’m exhausted of all the explicit content we get flashed at us everywhere. I couldn’t imagine being a child and having to navigate that in a facility that’s charged with caring for you while you’re there
Librarian here! I love your videos especially when you discuss these topics. I once decided to try out a LGBT++ book that was on a recommended reading list for middle schoolers. I randomly opened it up and my eyes landed upon a description of guy on guy action. Needless to say, LGBT++++ books are inherently sexually explicit no matter what folks say. In addition, I LOVED Me and Earl and the Dying Girl. However I would never read that book with, as in a book club, or recommend it to just any teen. It’s full of teen boy bravado, like in that passage you read, that not everyone will enjoy or find amusing. So again every book has its reader and let’s not pretend that every book is for everyone.
That isn't true at all inmy experience. Unfortunately people tend to use LGBT as a fetish, so many written by (especially straight women for some reason) are just that. I avoid those. However, there are some very nice family friendly comics and books with zero sex, bad language, etc. Castle Swimmer, Realta, ZomCom, Duncan and Eddie, The Little Trashmaid, Tamberlane, and many more have no sex and are very age appropriate for middle school. There are also many hetro stories that are very explicit and horrible too.
@@1faithchick7 that's because the community has been infiltrated by fetishists that are forcing their shit out and shouting louder than the "normal" people in the community. Smaller communities are often hijacked by bad actors once it is apparent that the movement/community is of great interest/value with respect to its size, since that is an easy target for extremists, narcissists and the like. Really not much we can do about that, since "normies" are just copy pasting the bullshit and the media is supporting it, and the real voices are silences by their own communities. I know too many people in the LGBT who are scared to speak their opinions because of how their own community would react.
@@1faithchick7 Nah the lgbts mostly write terribly cause their whole personality only consists of sexuality so they can only write about sex instead of an actual story
There is a reason for it, a disturbingly high number of teens already attempt it. Reading about how someone else attempted it, but survived it and worked through it is an important lesson to learn. It's all about context. It's like trying to teach abstinence only sex ed. It doesn't work and makes it worse. They're going to do it no matter how much you tell them not to, so it's more important to teach them about it, talk to them about the consequences and how to do it safely. With regards to self deletion you teach them how to deal with the feelings that lead to it, which requires talking about self deletion.
@@BloodyFooll It's a tough subject to address, but that's supposed to be why school librarians/committees exist, to go through the books and find the good ones that are a healthy first exposure for teens. We're just handing the reins to the wrong people. I think about it like slavery and racism. We have lots of books that deal with the topic and they're taught in almost every single English class in the English speaking world, books like To Kill A Mockingbird. They put those subjects into context and show why it's wrong by making you empathise with the characters. It's possibly to do the same with self deletion and sex. There is a correct age and context to have these presented to children. Children need to be exposed to healthy depictions of sex after puberty, as filtered through innocent depictions in young adult novels, otherwise they go off and experiment on their own completely blind. Self deletion is harder but reading about a character who wants to do then decides not to, following their journey to better mental health, and most importantly teaching them to tell other people about their thoughts so they can get them help, is important to teach them BEFORE they begin to consider committing it themselves.
Thank you for doing the research that not all of us know how to find. You actually report the non-biased facts. And it’s funny how it always makes them look bad. Always. So anyway… Thank you.
Ask these same people that are claiming that taking books out of the classroom and curriculum is wrong ¿would having Christian books in the classroom be acceptable?
Back in my day, only books clearly for education or historicity, were in my school's libraries. If we needed to do research and find more books, we went to the city library. We didn't expect to find EVERY SINGLE BOOK published in the world to be at a school's library, let alone books on pornography or sex-related matters.
I remember reading both "Perks of Being a Wallflower" and "Looking for Alaska in my grade 12 English classroom. To put it bluntly, yes. It's very explicit; in fact, the BJ scene I remember vividly, when Alaska is using toothpaste in order to teach the main protagonist and his girlfriend how to have Oral sex right in front of her. My class very well understood the scene entirely, though there is one scene they forgot to mention, and that is when Alaska offs herself, leaving the main protagonist depressed in the private school. Then there's the aftermath scene of when the gay couple breaks up, after one of the character's father finds out about the relationship (And yes, the sex scene is real, they even had the symbolism of having a tie on the closet door to prove it); when the main protagonist is walking around the cafeteria with his gay friend, the ex calls the gay man a f*ggot in the cafeteria, before an all out brawl is started. So, there's a bit more info on the book and the good reason why it shouldn't be read by anyone in K-8.
Any 18 and under. Reading these kinds of books are also not good for the mental health of the children reading them. There is such a thing called 2nd hand trauma.
I can't stand most of these books, but Looking for Alaska is not that bad. If you read the book the moral is that sex is often less rewarding than actual love.
That's crazy, I beat the garbage out of a kid in eight grade for calling me a "fag" in the middle of the cafeteria. I was the new kid in Wisconsin, from Florida, and couldn't let that slide. We ended up being friends later on
I read the crank series when I was 12. Shocking this was normal at my school to see books like this. I also read MAUS! Crazy. Absolutely crazy. None of it affected me though. I had a very complicated background growing up as a kid. I was adopted. My parents are both highly educated people, although my mother has a lot of issues (we don’t talk anymore), and I have ptsd from living in an orphanage for the first 4 years of my life. Yes, I was a child, but I lived a life where I witnessed and experienced some really horrible things, so I’ve seen this dark ugliness in the world, and books like Crank or “me, earl and the dying girl”, are very real experiences that even kids as young at 10 grow up being surrounded by. The main character from crank was literally 13 when she got raped and pregnant, this is real and horrible stuff that happens to children, and I do believe children (specifically tweens and teens) need to be made aware of these things somehow? To protect them. To let them know not to trust strangers, to stay together in groups, etc. before the 90s, I bet the world was a safer place. Even my home country is much safer than the US today. Do I think crank glorified any of this? I don’t think so. The book was a reflection on reality. Should I have read it when I was 12? Probably, probably not. I was mature for my age and I understood these things. Some children are mature enough and understanding towards heavy issues such as war, genocide, rape, domestic violence, etc. what I believe, is up to the parents, but I don’t think children should be completely sheltered from the world. With that being said, should books like crank or MAUS be in a K-5 grade? Absolutely NOT. Middle school, I’m on the fence about , but for high school, yes. However, the weird lgbt stuff, the step by step guides on having sexual intercourse, etc… none of that belongs in ANY school library. Not even university. It’s straight up sexual content. You can get it on Amazon or the bookstore if you’re an adult, and that’s your sort of thing, but it doesn’t belong in either kid friendly spaces or any academic/professional settings. Leave your sex life out of it. It’s that simple. It’s frankly disgusting and inappropriate for children, and I absolutely find it predatory. Also books like “A Court of Mist and Fury” do not belong in an academic setting either… way too sexual. If it’s just high fantasy without all the sex, then there’s no problem, but that’s straight up pornography, so I’m also giving it a no. Also seems like terrible writing anyways.
Even if these books are well written and depict deep themes, that won't make them appropriate for children. I personally love the manga Berserk. It has a great story, deep characters and themes, together with fun action and masterful artwork. It's still a very dark and very explicit story and I would fight against any attempt to put it on a school curriculum.
Yup... Imagine if people were demanding to show videos from the holocaust to elementary school children, these morons would be screaming that people are trying to deny history, stop teaching about ugly parts of history, etc. It doesn't matter if the material is accurate and should be taught... There are subjects that ARE NOT APPROPRIATE FOR CHILDHOOD! Children simply cannot understand the material, much like a 9 year old shouldn't be taught how to drive a car. 🤦
I read a lot of Ellen Hopkins books in HIGH SCHOOL. They absolutely were very mature. It had very explicit content, I certainly wouldn’t want my mom to know exactly what I was reading. Part of her whole style is using very graphic details and stories- of which are very possible realities for some teens. She did not sugar coat or glamorize a teenage girl having an eating disorder, a teenage girl who was manipulated into prostitution by an older man who she thought loved her, there’s a storyline with a gay teen boy who was so desperate for love that he allowed himself to be used by grown adult men. It’s been nearly a decade and I can still remember thinking she was so creative for these storylines, only to later find out that she was only writing from the perspectives of very real people. The book “tricks” involves the perspectives of multiple teens who end up as prostitutes, each of them getting lost in what they thought was romance, they get hooked on drugs by their pimps to continue to turn tricks, they lose their connection with their family. It was heavy stuff, and I absolutely saw it as a cautionary tale. A lot of the time, her books rarely had happy endings. Many of the characters ended in places where they were worse off than the start of the book. That being said, it should not be available to children. I’m fairly certain my old books at my moms house have 14+ somewhere on them. It’s meant to be for teens, to show them how awful those situations were and to not make those same choices. I even think some teens may not be ready to read those books. A cousin of mine still played with Barbies at 14 and she just held onto her childhood much longer than most people I know, I can’t imagine her even comprehending some storylines at 17. But she likely would not even have picked up the book in the first place, which I’m hoping if these books are available to children, the plot line wouldn’t catch their eye. I’m pretty sure the author herself would agree with this sentiment, as I think she’s a self described young adult author, not a Children’s author
6:40 I remember being a kid in Jr. high school WANTING to obtain and look at pornography. This was back in the 80s, and it WAS hard to find when you barely hit puberty. The rare moments any porn was found at school meant QUICK punishment, and expulsion. There was even a time when a student had a porno VHS tape, and we had a substitute teacher one class, and SOMEHOW talked the sub into playing the tape in class. The next day, that teacher was fired, and I never saw that student again (he wasn't a friend of mine so I had no idea where he ended up. Detention most likely.) Now days you can bring up porn so easily from the internet, and now teachers are giving out porn in K-6 classes calling it "CLASS CURRICULUM." We are living in backwards times now... yet they call this "PROGRESSIVE."
Thank you so much for this subject & for how thoroughly you covered it! Many times recently my grown kids come storming in with some vague stories of "right-wingers just banning books left & right just bc they're racist" or "because they're homophobes" but they can never elaborate and are just so full of emotion, angst & anger after hearing these lies from Twitter or wherever, that when I agree that "it surely sounds terrible but please tell me, which books & why", they don't know & just angrily answer me with "because they're just crazy, mom!" So now I finally have the facts & they're pretty much what I thought. Thanks, this video was invaluable to me!!
This is just more evidence that we should run background checks on teachers and professors because anyone thinking that those books belong in the libraries of grade schools and high schools need a visit from Chris Hanson.
There have been multiple documented cases where parents and students have brought these books up on objection to pta meetings and the like, reading out the sexually explicit passages. They usally get shut down by the people presiding over the meeting for being inappropriate at the meeting...yet those same people who turn the mics off for adults defend having the books available to minor children. Its really bizarre
I like Maus. It is a very well written and illustrated graphic novel which serves as a great depiction and reminder of the horrors of the Nazi regime. I think more people should read it. I do not think it is appropriate for younger readers or that they should have access to it. Paulson's Lawn Boy is indeed a great children's book which depicts the values of hard work and entrepreneurship and which I myself loved as a elementary schooler. Unfortunate that it's being confused with Evinson's work of the same name.
The fact that these words have to be censored from YT, but are "acceptable" to teach in schools is insane.
There are videos of p!ssed off parents reading excerpts from books in their children's libraries at school board meetings being censored. It's apparently ok for children to read these books, but it's inappropriate for adults to read them to other adults.
And events of world history have to be censored because some snowflakes feel "uncomfortable"... And that's in college...
America is so fucked...
Because they’re being taught with the newspeak definition.
only if you havent been living on the internet since about 2014.....
When I was a kid, the internet was a free-for-all wild west, and school was an restrictive, controlling, micro-managed hellscape.
Now the internet is a restrictive, controlling, micro-managed hellscape and schools are apparently wild west-esque free-for-alls.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Gee! If only the protestors would actually read the books they're defending. Kind of like Andrew did.
Yeah....
About that...
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They know. They want it read by kids
@@andrewkennedy9704 You're giving them far too much credit.
@@FIREBRAND38 unfortunately no. They literally do want kids reading this crap.
@@FIREBRAND38 depends on who you're talking about, the thought leaders at the top are damn well aware of what they're doing, they're just pure evil. The upside down brained activist types just aren't smart enough to understand complex concepts like ethics and morality. And the biggest group of them is the normie liberals that don't really know what's going on.
Andrew makes a damn good point: if you can’t show it on UA-cam or in a Tweet, you shouldn’t be able to show it to kids.
UA-cam says "hold my beer" and changes their rules so it's acceptable now.
Wouldn't surprise me.
It should be "Earl the Dying Girl and I". We had a Teacher once who we tricked into reading the novelised version of the Movie "Feeling Minnesota" out loud to us in class (in the 90s) she stopped reading after realising it was full of swears.
At the _very_ least, if it's inappropriate to be said in front of the _School Board_ then the School Board should not be able to approve it for schools.
You have to wonder why it's so import for them to expose kids to this content!
I agree. I also don’t think anything in The Perks of Being a Wallflower falls even remotely in that category. It’s not an edgy or offensive book. It’s less R-rated than any Marvel movie. Also, it’s a sweet book. I feel defensive about that one. It was part of my 90s adolescence.
Whenever parents read books like "Genderqueer" at school board meetings they get shut down because it's too graphic to be read aloud for the adults on the board. Apparently the book is perfectly for the children in their districts.
Yeah it’s called being “liberal”
Its called "The Plan" they want this stuff to indoctrinate children into their degenerate cult
Rules for thee not for me
As someone who once considered being a librarian, I am so disgusted that they think child 🌽in books is okay. Like no, people aren't complaining because they want to censor knowledge, they just don't like disgusting illegal content being peddled through the school system by woke predators.
I got a two day ban on Facebook for posting an image from the book.
In summation; those complaining about Republicans “banning” books haven’t read them, exaggerate the restrictions surrounding them, get off on children reading explicit material, or some combination thereof. Par for the course honestly.
Yep!
But then turnaround and rewrite Charlie and the Chocolate Factory because Augustus Gloop is fat and that might hurt someone's feelsies.
That would be disturbing if I want to live in a world full of children being sexualized or only fascination is being sexualized. I'd rather someone make a book on how to "properly" overthrow the government. We'll see how they respond to that
You have to wonder why it's so import for them to expose kids to this content!
If age of consent is 16 then 16 should be old enough to read graphic novels
It's extremely disturbing when the author says their book is not appropriate for children and the librarians are complaining that it is challenged for being inappropriate for children.
And when people read aloud segments of the books in public locations filled with adults, they are reprimanded for reading inappropriate material.
It’s even more disturbing when the public has said “this is not appropriate for adults, let alone children” and the author throws a fit because they wrote it to target it to children
I say the same thing when someone complains about vulgar books being "banned". If what you have to say is sooooo important... why is the book not free?
the people writing the books and those advocating to put them in any public school are disturbed. Beelzebub is very busy fooling them.
The problem is that the librarians didn't read the book before ordering multiple copies -- or whomever put it on the reading list. Most of these people don't understand age appropriateness.
It looks like “Claimed to be sexually explicit” is code for “Sexually explicit content that we want the children to read because of diversity”.
no, 'under the guise of diversity'
no one believes in diversity - it's just an excuse the left uses to try to get people to willingly step onto their plantation
They're confusing perversity with diversity 🤡
@@ignerramos3952 pervisity is our strength
It's grooming really, especially when you consider that most kids will stumble across porn and such just using the internet regularly.
And racisms
Everyone repeat after me. There are no banned books in the US. None. Zero. Nada. Zilch. If you want a book, you can get it. There are no banned books and we really need to stop using that phrase.
This person gets it.
True! I have been getting so annoyed seeing lists of “banned” books going around Facebook.
There are, but it is being done by Amazon and left wing publishing companies. Not right wing parents.
@@micki0finn430True but even then there are alternatives. Nothing is banned legally.
Maybe Camp of the Saints
If these books are appropriate, I dare a main stream tv reporter to read inappropriate passages on live TV and incur the Massive fines from the FCC. Put your money where your mouth is.
reminds me of a clip where a school had young teenagers do weird homework and when a mother complained in a school board hearing she was shut down quoting that homework because "it was not appropiate for such a hearing"
(not 100% sure if it was a hearing tho, smth along those lines)
Excellent response, Geo Radzo!
I was thinking the exact same thing - then I saw your post. I'm glad I'm not alone.
You'd get shut down at a public town hall meeting for reading excerpts from many of the books in elementary and middle schools.
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You might be remembering the viral school board video that kicked all this off. I think it was the one in which the woman was at the podium reading excerpts from Gender Queer. She tried to read through the disgusting bits and the board was trying to talk over her to get her to stop reading because "there are children present and this is inappropriate." Something along those lines.
What a bunch of complete morons. They basically admitted it on the spot that it is inappropriate. So what we all want to know is, why in the world is the school board protecting/justifying having that garbage in the school library (or worse as assigned reading material in class), if they say on the spot that it is inappropriate?
GET THAT GARBAGE OUT OF SCHOOL! It's not book banning or any other buzzword the leftards are going to call it. There is a concept called "age-appropriate material" that is completely lost on the left. Parents can make a judgement for themselves OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL if they want their child to be exposed to this sodomy. You can screw up your own child all you want (have fun with that immoral hell), but leave everyone else and their kids alone.
What happened to classics like Huck FIn, Tom Sawyer, and Moby Dick? Oh yeah, I forgot. All those are huwhite supreme books with racism, so lets replace it with X-rated adult themes instead.
This is like those Liberal Logic 101 memes come to life.
A 19 year-old is a child if they get shot, but for reading explicit material, they stop being a child at 12.
Depends on the colour of the 19 year old, they might also be a doctor or lawyer depending on the colour.
They stop being a child before they can read these days.
When leftards can't figure out how to determine their own gender, I'm not surprised they can't figure out how old a child is either.
@@CC-bn2ws you just described a 30 year old public school graduate.
The implications of banning a book with any sexual material are much further reaching then you may think. There are so many teen novels that involve sex.
Children aren't allowed into movie theatres to watch 18+ R rated movies, or buy adult magazines or video games in stores - no one is claiming the products themselves are "banned"
If you think your kid can handle GTA V or Pulp Fiction you can buy it yourself and give it to them.
What's particularly creepy about this is that there seems to be an effort by the schools to prevent parents from finding out that their kids are being exposed to sexually explicit material.
Not related to this issue, but movie theaters also consider 12 year olds to be adults when it comes to their ticket prices.
@KasumiKenshirou but not for adult movies.
If you don't want your kid to check out a book from the library you can simply tell the librarian to not let them check it out. It's not the librarian's responsibility to parent your child.
Normalizing deviant behavior so they can get rid of the laws that will put them in prison soon.
When they try to hide something, the are doing something wrong.
I'm convinced some of these authors are using the label "banned book" for self-marketing purposes.
Oh there is no doubt
Absolutely right
There is a reason bookstores often have a "banned book" display, it's a selling point. Ignoring the irony of having dozens of "banned" books for sale to the public.
Not just authors, but publishers and book stores too. It's a popular ad campaign
Bill Hicks did it best: WARNING: this album contains EVERYTHING your parents hate EVERYTHING the Church preaches against EVERYTHING the Government fears Enjoy, Bill Hicks.
The fact they have to conflate books not being in children school to them being banned outright, is more than enough to show how disingenuous these people are.
You cannot give children violent video games, but they want to show porno to them
Criminals in prison, redrum pedosbears without murcy
Their endgame is legalizing sex with children jus like in Weimar republic
It's one of the lefts favorite moves. They did it often with health care by saying that if government doesn't provide it, its doesn't exist.
Don't be so antisemitic!
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😂
You mean how evil these people are.
ALA definition of banned: moving it out of the children’s section to the adult section and requiring adult supervision just like we do with movies.
These people belong on the sex offender’s registry.
That's the only thing I can think of. They want to have sex with the kids. It's disgusting
@@ryanaddy1135 that's what all of it has always been about.
most of them already are.
They belong in a woodchipper
@@ryanaddy1135 You are insane, you are projecting your personal traumas and irrational fears.
Saying a book, which has detailed instructions on gay sex, was banned because it's "claimed to be sexually explicit," is like a Lamborghini owner blasting down a highway, then saying the reason he received a speeding ticket is because the police, "claimed I was going too fast."
It's all about controlling the narrative.
It’s all about corrupting our youth and separating from their parents.
the left likes to control the narrative a lot
All par for the typical communist takeover course.
Gay comparison, speeding should not be a crime
@ jadonlimoges1830 Totally right. People should all be allowed to drive way too fast to react to the other speeding drivers around them or other changes in environment. Not enough people die in traffic accidents yearly!
This has to do with what books are available to children NOT adults. But when 6 Dr Seuss books “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street”, “If I Ran the Zoo”, “McElligot's Pool”, “On Beyond Zebra!”, “Scrambled Eggs Super!” and “The Cat's Quizzer” are euphemistically “RETIRED” and even ADULTS can’t by them online or even purchase used copies on Ebay that is far closer to the definition of Banning than the previous examples that have to do with books available for children in children’s libraries.
And To Think that I saw it in Mulberry Street is a very important book in the history of children's literature. It's ridiculous.
They aren't banned. Choosing not to put them into public school libraries is not the same thing as banning them. Parents that want their kids to read these books can buy them or check them out at a normal public library.
The libraries that buy these should be burnt down. These are awful books.
What makes you think that leftists are smart enough to know the difference?
The experiment in mass homeschooling lead to millions of parents realizing how terrible public education has become. Imagine what would happen if the AMA admitted that it's the parents responsibility to curate what their children read.
@@zeogold no, they know the difference, they're just liars.
Right. We’re not trying to make them illegal. We just don’t want them around kids due to them having adult themes and in some cases being straight up porn. If you’re an adult and you wanna check them out, fine by me. Just leave the kids alone!
Love it how they use "banned books" in America when it exclusively pertains to whether or not kids can find them on their school library bookshelves
imean biden is the president
@Caitlyn Carvalho I'm a Christians that plays d&d. You sound like one of those crazy parents from the 80s
@Caitlyn Carvalho It also says to stone your kids for misbehaving, among many more spicy things.
Maybe realize playing a game where I say "I cast fireball" isn't the same thing as actually trying to induce power from a demonic entity in real life.
Next you'll say killing someone in a video game is murder.
@@paradoxelle481 Lmao. Take your meds and call your therapist. The bible contradicts itself because it's made up bullshit. The figurative novel you wrote proves that you actually do believe it, while still somehow seeing that it's also a load of shite.
@Caitlyn Carvalho They're a lunatic, don't bother.
They’ve been coming for the children for a long time, and people still try and deny it 😂
Remember when everybody agreed children were the most vulnerable?
@@millsrickman7703 we still agree about that, the left just sees that vulnerability as an opportunity for power. Regular people see it as a duty to protect them.
I keep telling people. It's really simple. They want you dead, and they want to f your kids.
At least since the creation of the public schooling system.
Part of the agenda to collapse society over the last 50 or 60 years.
I am unlucky enough to have read the bluest eye as a part of a HIGH SCHOOL curriculum. It has absolutely disgusting scenes about things I can't even say here without having my account banned. Needless to say, its not for most adults, let alone teens.
I read this book in college. It’s a masterpiece, but I cannot imagine reading it as a high schooler. There are scenes from that book that haunt me to this day.
@@maddigotnojams1964Same here. It was one of the most difficult books I have had to read due to the abuse portrayed.
Read it in an nyc elementary school. We read the grape scene out loud in class.
I swear it changed me. Hearing that is the only way a man could love his daughter. Gross. Being in the father’s head as he did that.
A parent took the book her 4th grader had checked out. Went to the school board meeting to complain. They were yawning right until she read from it. They had the guards remove her for profanity. The next parent asked how can it be available for kids but not acceptable here?
I love how once the book actually gets read out loud it’s so gross and no questions it’s not for children.
When parents try to read passages from these books out loud at school board meetings their mikes are turned off. Why? Inappropriate content!
@@queenbee3647 Treat adults like children and children like adults
“I like how once the book gets read out loud it’s so gross and no questions it’s not for children.”
My guy, he read something like 20 lines between several books. He’s clearly cherry-picking here.
@@accelerationnation8171 wait you are saying he’s reading lines from books found in elementary school libraries?? That’s not okay
@@Ryback6969 I’m just saying that he could easily be portraying the books to be something that does not accurately reflect what the books are trying to say. There was no significant plot synopsis or context to those lines.
The fact these books even made it into a curriculum or school library is insane
Look up, Weimar republic and their sexual exploitation of K. I. Ds
I always ask myself if it’s ignorance or malice and i lean more towards malice everyday
@@ShermanDude2231 It's malice. The fact that this sh1t is ramping-up suggests that it's not being done by mistake. And it's funny how it's only conservatives and moderates and even liberals who aren't batsh1t crazy are the ones discovering these books.
@@ShermanDude2231 Same
These people want to r. Ape kids
my sister is an ultra lib librarian who is constantly spouting this BS. Thank you so much for making this. She often compares this nonsense with book burnings. Such tripe. I'm like yeah imagine a book so banned it sits on it's own specially curated shelf at barnes and noble!
She won’t understand this, but you might.
Look into the books that were burned in 1930s Germany. You’ll find lots of sexually explicit material meant for children in the bonfire 😂
The Weimar Republic was the true birthplace of hedonistic modern psychology. Lots of psychologists questioning how young is too young to sleep with.
Turns out, lots of The Chosen psychologists felt there was no such thing as too young for sex.
The insanity of modern times should have you question things from history. Why was Hitler elected into power? This very problem is a key to understanding why.
The fact they want all these books in elementary schools is all you need to know.
BINGO
Awww are your feelings hurt snowflake? 😂😂
@@Svenne-man-1880 ...So what are you going to do about it?
@@Svenne-man-1880 ...sure...keep thinking they have given up on your kids
GROOMERS, or as we all know, LIBERALS.
I thought "banned" meant you arent allowed to obtain it or find it anywhere because it is not allowed...I didnt know "banned" meant you cant get it in school but it is available LITERALLY everywhere else in the country smh...
Well you might have missed the part where we switched from English to 'Newspeak', but words now mean whatever the left needs them to mean depending on the audience and what wins them the argument at the time.
Exactly. And we need to avoid falling into the trap of using their language. They say "books banned." We should say "reasonable age restrictions."
When I ban a book from my house, I expect it to be memory holes from society. 🤣 It's nuts!
@@shawn4110 Such a partisan take. Both the left and right do this shit all the time.
@@brycelarson1391 Except he didnt name any sides and you are the one bringing up partisanship. Even if "both sides" you cant deny that the people pushing the book banning narrative are manipulating language to lie to their followers.
It's pretty easy to call their bluff:
Every time someone says these books are not sexually explicit and are acceptable for children, then ask them to post the images or excerpts with tags set for children.
There are parents who take these books to the school board and they get removed for reading “profanity and sexual nature”. Which is wierd that you can’t read it in the presence of children at the board meeting, but the classroom is A-okay to do so
I always ask them to just name a couple of the books and they never respond because they can't post something like this and win their argument
Here’s what happens at school board meetings. 1) A parent says “Blank & Blank” is not appropriate. The school board says they’re full of it, and move on to the next speaker. 2) The next speaker then reads from the book in question, and their mic is cut off. What does that tell you? That the school board won’t debate a unionized staff member’s decision , and that their own ears can’t handle the “not safe for work” material that staff member purchased.
as a Christian and a minor im shocked they allow this stuff for children for "learning"
It’s gross for like children children. But I think the “young adult” section is pretty proper for most of this stuff
@@LightsaberGoBrrrrrr young adult is like 10-13 in my experience, so I would say not quite
@@LightsaberGoBrrrrrr no, these books belong on sites like Tumblr, not only because of their content, but because of how poorly written they are. They are straight up insults to human intelligence...
In my humble opinion, as the days and years continue to progress along with this insanity, the more and more I start to see our society resemble that of a certain dystopian book: A Brave New World
This is from a party who banned a Christmas song because the woman did not give consent 😅 "Baby it's cold outside"
AND they recently talked crap about the freaking 'Super Mario Bros. Movie,' because they claimed that the song "Peaches" in it (You know, the song that the BAD GUY sings in it) is "Toxic" and "Misogynistic."
So true. Forgot about that. Actually, you can find some obvious hypocrisy in every ridiculous leftist idea
@@Adamguy2003 geez you would think that would get across that bowser didn’t love her for being her, but just superficial look and the power he would gain from it. Seriously I’ll bet that a lot of these “critics” never even watched the movie.
While incredibly dumb, that's new, low-hanging fruit. On a longer timeline this is from people who intentionally took Christ out of Christmas by, among other things, writing these kinds of secular 'holiday songs', otherwise encouraged the complete commercialization of the holiday, and ultimately still decided that the mere mention of the word 'Christmas' - after it has been desacralized to the point of meaninglessness in the wider society - is somehow offensive and exclusive.
(sigh) Did they not listen to that song? Pay close attention to what the girl's saying, Dems. She just says "oh, X relative will disapprove" while making no move whatsoever to actually leave, and then she asks the guy to pour her another drink. That's the entire song. Yes, it's implied, rather than outright stated, but she definitely doesn't want to leave.
...sorry. It's just so stupid.
When I was a kid the National Geographic was the most sexually explicit thing in the library.
Yeah I remember that, if you read the article, you would have learned that in some areas it is illegal to cover your breasts and being gay is illegal.
Still in affect today.
I’m a junior high kid (middle schooler)
We have full on porn in our books. 😅
*deep breath* I felt this on a molecular level, love me some nat geo I'm subscribed simply because they showed me the first bare breasts I ever saw. I'm waiting for my son to start digging through my thirty years collection of nat geo and discover himself like I did.
@@CAT-yk3tz
Where is it illegal for women to cover their breasts?
our middle school had some medical books. national geographic had color photographs but it still had only an occasional topless woman.
I used to work for a Librarian supply company. The company and a large percentage of the librarians associated with it are lesbians, transexuals and allies. I can say that my experience was them intending to spread lesbianism and transgenderism to children; not the older teens either. Some waxing poetic about making "baby-dykes" and trans-men/women out of teenagers (and these were women in their 30's to 50's). That company gave me a very bad feeling about scholastic employees and their associates.
Queer theory in action
it's like catholic priests having a many child molesters in their ranks. why are there so many , because that's how to get access . same with the crew you worked with . all the freaks want to spread their freekyness to the world so they can become accepted as normal. and they are succeeding especially the trans.
Wow
Little Richard - who struggled with his orientation his whole life - said that it was "contagious" and I agree with him. I think he'd know more about it than most folks.
you should have reported them to the police , it may have circumvented this perversion.
MAUS is actually a very good piece of work, its an amazing representation of a WW2 survivor's story about the war and the holocaust. It was definitely a benefit to my COLLEGE level course on art and history. College.
read it 10 times a day goyim . make sure you never forget it .
I got assigned to read it in high school and I’m gonna be honest while I didn’t think much of it at the time since schools like to over play teaching about the holocaust to the point you get desensitized to it I agree that it’s a very well written account of the kind of things that happened
@@grigori9061 Yeah I agree. It literally feels like they are hammering you on the head with the horrifying "truth" of events like the Holocaust and trying to force it upon you to the point that their impact on society in general gets overblown.
I do believe that school just changed grade levels, from middle to high school.
Yeah I had to read it for a class in college too. But as a big comic book geek, I wasn't feeling it. I'm also pretty over WWII propaganda at this point.
When the debate devolves to the point that the opposition calls me a racist and bigot, I can only reply, "Fine. For the sake of argument, I'm a racist and bigot. How does that make sexually explicit books ok for children?"
Then they walk away and say they can’t interact with a racist and a bigot. Pretending in their own minds they won the argument. Then the post about how brave they were that day fighting a fascist who was trying to unalive them..
@@roninkraut6873 true
@@roninkraut6873 Yeah, that's like playing chess with a pigeon. The pigeon knocks all the pieces off the board, shits on the table, then struts around like it won the game.
@@arinerm1331 awesome analogy there. soo true.
What's worse in in their "safe spaces' where only THEIR VIEW, THE MESSAGE can be shown they then get angry at you and suspend or out right ban you for questioning them. even if the person they banned happens to be a little bit of the group they say they protect.
I say that because in a Facebook group about DnD meme posting someone asked how a all autistic campaign/group would run and someone mentioned that they are already there and how all autistic kids are normally Alphabet soup members. I questioned trying to understand that (while being potentially autistic, Ace, and yet centrist leaning conservative) and got suspended for a week (my third suspension in this group in the past YEAR) because I was flamebaiting and political (yet the lefties political views/message is perfectly fine.. questioning it is not cool)
I assume my questioning of "are you sure that it isn't that, due to humans being social creatures, the autistics aren't just adopting mannerisms and tastes to the group that accepts them in fear of being ejected? I am not saying the Alphabet soup people are directly focusing on them (just anyone who can listen and is confused/curious) but i am insinuating that they are gaining a surge in numbers due to the fad/peer pressure of being an Alphabet person instead of a normal person. to be normal is to be the most evil vile thing in the world and so they call them by the Slur Cis (which i've been called when I wandered into an Open LGBT chat room and asked about it, and heard in a closed chat room that i infiltrated where the members outright said it is a derogatory slur.)
they at first gave me no reasoning, and the suspension happened a few minutes after i got one person giving me an Angry emoji reaction. so i assume this snowflake woman.. or thing, reported me because I dared question THE MESSAGE.
@@jesseallen3109 Those in "protected class" identities **MUST** toe the party line! The protected class is too frail-minded to have its own opinions, according to the Leftist dogma. The Party is the savior, and the members daren't stray.
“tHeY aRe TrYiNg To BaN bOoKs bY rEqUiRiNg pArEnTaL cOnSeNt!”
“That child isn’t allowed to watch R rated movies without parental consent! Get that child out of here!”
Same people.
Not really, but I get it.
Don't give them ideas.
What makes you think they don't approve of taking children to R-rated movies?
More like "That 19 year old is a Child for Gun Crime statistics"
Theh also complain about 'fanservice' in anime just saying have yet to see a right wingers do the same but then again no one would be surprised either.
My favorite argument is that if I were to write what is in these books word-for-word in UA-cam comments, I would get kicked off UA-cam for being "offensive".
Exactly 😂
You're supposed to whisper it into a child's ear when their parents aren't around... that's what these school board pedos are saying.
Like seriously, he had to bleep the words out but sure it's OK for kids
Just say your trans and you'll get a free pass..
@STORY TIME WITH UNCLE KUMARAN funny thing… no? UA-cam’s bot doesn’t care at all, it just looks if there’s swear words and if it has them it removes them. So even then, innuendos and the like are fully allowed by youtube
I remember reading the bluest eye as a teenager. We had to pick a summer reading book and I picked this from the list. Multiple times in that book I broke down and cried over what was happening. There were also numerous graphic writings in the book that made me feel sick. Like there were very nasty and disgusting scenarios written out in that book.
Providing pornography to children is a felony. Arrest them already FBI. Of course, we know why they won't.
Because they are committed to an equal application of the law, of which no one is above? Merrick Garland said it so it must be true.
Merrick garland is part of (((them)))
Lol you are calling best selling children's and YA books "pornography"
They won't arrest them...because it is part of the plan to erode society and create weak people.
You idiot, the law he is referring to is very explicit on what pornography is and can not be exposed to anyone under 18.
Study law next time.
Too bad you do not follow the laws already in the books.
I give major kudos to the one author who didn't get defensive when his book was restricted from children.
Agreed, but it's a sad day when we have to give kudos to somebody for not throwing a tantrum because we are against them giving sexually explicit material to children.
@@Perrybezenar I don't get this hedging. Honesty should always be encouraged. It's always been in short supply.
@@sgartner thats his point
@sgartner
I would agree, except he's still pushing his explicit book on children and teens... Honesty isn't enough when it speaks counter to what he's actually doing, that being pushing his book in children and teens while saying it's not for children and teens.
He's speaking out of both sides of his mouth, which means nothing he says is "honest".
It seems to me that the ALA members seem to forget that they work for the taxpayers, and that they need to curate their libraries with books that cater to the wants of their communities. And that the community is allowed to challenge and overrule them when they feel that the librarians decisions don't match up with the desires of the community.
Exactly, these people work for us. Children don't typically pay taxes. Pull the books. Do as you are told and shut up. If you don't like it, move to a leftist enclave where smut and depravity is endorsed. Why the parents want the books pulled is none of their concern IMO. We have to run these aholes out of leadership to make it happen. Honestly, if my kid was in the school I'd have her take out the book and it would disappear. Problem solved.
Saw leftists on some leftys video complaining about the fact that parents/taxpayers can advocate for such a change. Those are some nasty ass people.
They forgot pretty much everything...why wouldn't they? We were a liberal society with no ability to draw a line in the sand.
There was no line for them to cross, no opposition.
Democrats & leftists are least playing for keeps you should read Concept of the Political by Carl Schmitt except they don't care about the conservative aspect of Schmitt's work.
Well I have seen that trend with a lot of American (…) Associations.
They often get funded by private companies to “help with research”.
One example that comes to mind is the American Heart Association. They were funded almost two million dollars by the largest vegetable oil producer in the US and then shortly after published a study on why animal fats are supposedly worse for your health than plant based oils. There is a great video from What I learned Today on this exact situation.
If there's any book banning going on, it's being done by the librarians themselves during the selection and acquisition process by refusing to purchase materials that don't fit the official orthodoxy.
The challenges that stand out most to me are when someone reads excerpts at a school board meeting and the school board stops them because "inappropriate language," or (my fav!) "Stop! There are children present!"
Exactly their point!!
We need to get these pedophiles out of our government agencies.
Then there would be no one left... so yes, remove them all, then just dissolve the agencies.
So let me get this straight: Kids under 18 are banned from seeing rated R movies, but how dare school libraries ban books about sex and gender?
R ratings are 16 and under require an adult, I believe. NC 17 means 17 and under are not permitted at all.
So, if you're 17 or older you can go to R movies, provided you show an ID.
Or have an adult.
@@James_Bee No it is 18 or older that is the legal age for an R-rated film.
@@emberfist8347 in the US it's not 18. If you're 17 you can go to/view an R rated film without a parent or guardian, according to the MPAA.
But these are sexually explicit images that wouldn't be allowed to be shown in most theaters, so there's that.
Why a 19 y.o. is suddenly a "child" when they get shot but not when you read this creepy crap?
Those are very different things.
The following are all views championed by the left: ▪️Lower the voting age to 16 because they're so knowledgeable and worldly now. ▪️College students are not mature enough to be held responsible for student loans ▪️Children should have access to "gender affirming" medical care without parental consent or knowledge ▪️Stop trying 18yo suspects as adults, they're too immature to be held to that level of responsibility. ▪️Toddlers can choose their gender.
Apparently, like so many other things, they consider maturity to be "fluid" or a "spectrum", depending on how it helps the party.
They sneak these books in, and know darn well what's in them, but AFTER the parents find out what the educators already knew, they get to claim they are being censored.
The librarian screams out censorship as they groom your children 😂
Schools are choosing what books are in their libraries and are removing ones they don’t like? Wow, that’s absolutely crazy that schools have the autonomy to do that.
Parents want a say over what their kids are exposed to - 😲
Gotta a good Yoder brain!😊
imagine being upset over not being able to groom kids... funny though, no one ever got this upset over movie theaters having age restrictions or every movie watched in school needing to be pg/pg13. but yall arent mindless sheep just doing what you are told right? lets be honest the only reason this is even an issue is because it has been turned political and you feel the need to cheerlead for your team no matter what. seriously why even argue against it? if you cared so much about your kid having the ability to read "the perks of being a wallflower" or whatever you can very easily go out and get it yourself. but you dont care about anyone reading any given book because its all about maintaining the political dogma. removing the books has no negative affect on anyones ability to r3ead the books if they want but keeping them in schools allows parents kids to have access to something they deem inappropriate. how selfish to argue in favor of something that doesnt negatively impact you but does someone else and all for what? absolutely nothing.
A Clockwork Orange was banned in my schools growing up. I still read it. Banned in schools doesn’t mean they are banned, it just means you have to go through your parents to get them.
It was required reading in my 1971 classroom ! LoL 😮
@@isiso.speenie5994 The rape and violence might make it a bit much for anyone other than very mature seniors (12th)
The way I see it , if the book does not make you get sexually excited in the classroom, it's probably alright . Clockwork did not get me excited, so that is probably why they were allowed to push it in 11th/12th grade English class. (As opposed to the tripleXxx paperbacks I borrowed from my dear dad's secret collection I found in the basement ) .LMAO
Exactly. Age restriction is normal.
both are bad and shouldnt happen lol.
“You can sell the book in bookstores, maybe even have it in public libraries, just don’t put it in elementary schools”
“hOw dArE yOu SiLeNcE mE”
Heck, if they are going to put in books like this in schools, why aren't Playboy, Penthouse and Hustler in schools also? They are educational also.
Good question. I can only guess that they lack a certain pretentiousness that academia adores.
I’m pretty sure there was one school library that actually did have hustler in it.
Lmfao. Sex scenes in graphic novels are acceptable if no one finds the non binaries hot, got it!!!
Simple, most of them are not hot.
Ahhhh. So the legends are true. Poofy is real after all.
@@benrex7775 if they were hot they’d not be so desperate as to be non-binary.
"...no one finds the non binaries hot..."
FTFY.
Every last one of those weird fake "genders" and nonexistent pseudo-sexualities is nothing more than a weak-sauce euphemism for "Nobody wants to bang me."
Even on YT they mute certain sexual languages but school kids can read it? Crazy.
There ain’t no advertisings in the books so
Not UA-cam muted the words, the video creators did.
And equally, not the library should ban the books but the authors censor themselves and no one else.
As someone who read Maus for English class (I'm a Sophmore) I would not say it's self indulgent. It's a genuine story about a holocaust survivor. As far as language goes, there were around 3 sh*ts, and the other words were using the lord's name in vain. The nudity was not really anything beyond a Roman statue, it was used for illustrative purposes, not to be exploitative or sexual. I think with parental consent this could be a book for school curriculum, it is a compelling story. :) Just a genuine thought from someone who cares.
My guess is the focus of the story is what caused it to pop up on everyone's radar. It's a difficult subject for adults to talk about much less children so I get the caution. Remember this would potentially be available to K-12 kids.
@@tticusFinch Elementary students and I'd say middle students shouldn't be reading it as the material is more aligned with young adults to adults.
@@kingoffire105 agreed. Or even have it available for younger kids but with parent consent
@@tticusFinch Still dependable, but I do expect that most parents who care for their children's wellbeing understand what is good and not good for children to read.
@@samandthehams4496 Maus is a good book for a high schooler to read. I'd even be fine with it being in the libraries of middle schools.
So by their logic, if a book is not being used as teaching material in a classroom, that constitutes a "ban". By their logic, some 90% of books in the world are being banned in every school on earth as the vast majority of books in existence are not being used as teaching material in classes.
19:16 So they agree that the book depicts sexual abuse but still write “claimed to be sexually explicit”?! How can they take themselves seriously?
They hope normies will see that and just scoff and go “lol dumb prude republicans.”
It's technically true, which is the worst kind of truth
This is not false, it‘s just stating for what the book has been criticized.
“We are not trying to indoctrinate your kids, you’re crazy ! And if we are then it’s awesome and we need more of it. “🤨
Maus is an amazing graphic novel it portrays adult topics and is pretty brutal at times I would defiantly understand why it wouldn't be in a school in general they've banned books that don't show the graphic stuff they're talking about and yet we won't ban a book that actual shows the horrible acts that doesn't seem correct
One of my college history professors even parroted the media’s narrative about Maus being banned. I had read the book many years back and was taken aback by that very scene. It’s almost as if none of these people have read these books.
Except Maus isn’t banned.
I liked Maus, but I have horrible books from that era. Books that would be locked up if there were children in the house. In fact, as I age, I’m wondering where to send them since I want them to go to someone who understands the importance of these books.
CNN told them what to think so they don't need to read the books.
To give them their due, the "book banning" is a fantastic line. Not only does it sound enough like "book burning" to create certain subconscious associations, but it makes something which is actually fairly reasonable, having some parental input into what books are available in school libraries, sound like absolute tyranny.
Exactly. They know what they're doing.
These books should be burned, with the writers.
They are experts at lies and leftist propaganda. They have had decades of practice to refine their technique.
Exactly. And it works, which is why I have trouble seeing how we can win in 2024. They own all the media and big tech, and fighting against this sort of manipulation is going to be an uphill battle.
Especially appropriate when one considers the context of which books were burnt and what was in them, and who were responsible for them... Always gotta be a victim despite your wrongdoing... Crying out when hitting you, and what-not.
Is this the ALA claiming that queer authors can't write books that aren't explicit in nature, or that books portraying people struggling with their emotions must also include bedroom stuff? Because that says a lot about how _they_ look at a certain community ...
Groomers just want to sexualize children.
That part really ticks me off. There are plenty of age appropriate LGBT stories kids can read. And instead they choose to put these in libraries . Vile.
@@1faithchick7 My kids won’t be reading the “age appropriate” books either. They won’t be reading anything about fa double g ots.
@@1faithchick7 Conservatives are banning LGBT books for all ages. One of the most frequently challenged books is And Tango Makes Three.
I can’t even begin to describe my disgust for our society and the sick people running it. There aren’t enough millstones!
2012: "We aren't coming for your kids."
2023: "Kids should have to read our literature as apart of their curriculum you BiGoTs!"
The author of at least one of those books literally said the book wasn't for kids but young adults(side note the side in the video is wrong young adults aren't 12 to 18 it's 18 to early 20s don't know what crack he took to think that) so it's more the libraries fault not the individual author so no lgbtq+ isn't going for your kids no more than Christian fanatics do saying we need prayer in school
@@dogwoodhillbilly im about 90% sure majority of these are the libraries fault they have a history of not checking the books they order (the amount of books in my school that are non lgbtq+ that are seriously fucked was astonishing) also I think part of it is the authors being told the book is banned by media and believing it without actually looking into it because of how divided politics has become so I don't think the lgbtq+ community as a whole is at fault
What do gay people (I’m assuming that’s what you mean) have to do with this?
@@dogwoodhillbilly alright
If I need to illustrate what's happening, I'll just show you the parallels. Here is an Old>New Marxist Revolutionary Dictionary.
Bourgeoisie/bourgeois= white/"whiteness"
Proletariat=Person of color/"lgbt"
A Revolutionary/ class consciousness awakened=woke
Classist/Counter-revolutionary=Racist/white supremacist
Systemic Oppression, etc etc- most of the other revolutionary terms are the same. Mao called these terms Power Words- words imbued with "revolutionary meaning." In 1984 they were nicknamed newspeak. These words program the mind and shape perception with repetition.
If you were thinking that maybe LGBT was a decent movement that was "hijacked" by communists, that would be incorrect. The first man to start the concept of "gay rights activism" was Harry Hay, a communist. It was meant to subvert the society from the beginning.
4:52 "Self-indulgemt graphic novel..." Thank you! _Maus_ is exactly that. He's not a Holocaust survivor, his parents were, and yet he manages to make the Holocaust all about him.
It’s still a very great graphic novel.. and let’s be honest most literature is self-indulgent.. take Jonathan Franzen.. or something like that .. besides it is a way to understand his Parents or at least his Father and understand what happened and the background for his religion and the shadow 2 world war have on it or something like that.. not every graphic novel should be something by Frank Miller .. now that is cringe 😱
@@bacht4799 Thanks, but no sale. He's a sanctimonious gasbag.
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Bro, that’s blasphemy! Frank Miller isn’t cringe but I can understand why he’s not appealing to everyone.
@@roninkraut6873 No Frank fell off the slippery slope from a good writer to a bad one long ago. For ASBAR where he has Batman call Dick Grayson Age 12 a word you can't even put in the comments section of UA-cam anyone, commit murder with psychotic glee, and try to force Dick Grayson Age 12 to eat a rat all hours after his parents died while implying he might have abducted Robin if the mafia didn't kill Dick Grayson Age 12's parents. Or Holy Terror a poorly written and drawn post-9/11 diatribe that even Frank has admitted was a mistake.
aren't what they doing nowadays... making their ancestors' experiences to their own suffering demanding reparations that they don't even deserve. BTW, they have been enjoying a certain form of reparation which we are now call welfare for decades to come.
Saw this before:
"Ask not why children shouldn't see drag queens; Ask why drag queens seek an audience of children."
And quess what? There are even drag queens against exploiting their culture to kids.
@@tultsi93and why aren't they speaking up louder and fighting back?
@@troybaxter Kitty Desmond is the loudest opposer. You can find them if you bother to look.
@@tultsi93And how come this is the first time i've heard of this person?
@@Green-Raccoon777 Because sources aren't given right away. You can find him being interviewed. There are ones even in UA-cam.
I'm so old I remember when teachers were good and decent, and libraries didn't keep porn in the children's section.
When I was a senior in high school, I had to get a permission slip signed to watch Schindler's list. Kids these days can get a book from the school library that has scenes of sexual intercourse detailed to the last drop.
It’s probably because Schindler’s list takes place during the holocaust and there are still people who deny the holocaust happened.
Yep, needed approval to read “go ask Alice”
Basketball diaries was completely banned from schools.
Never needed to have a permission slip signed to watch Schindler's List in school. I think you are full of shit.
THANK YOU FOR CALLING A LIE A LIE - SO SICK OF PEOPLE TRYING TO BE POLITE WHEN THESE PEOPLE JUST OUTRIGHT LIE FOR THEIR POLITICAL GOALS.
There are three key takeaways here, with some commentary:
1.) These books are not being banned. They're usually removed from curriculum, moved to adult sections of the library, or removed from children's libraries. Parents can still access this content if they want it for their children.
2.) People are challenging these books primarily for adult content, usually not merely LGBT+ content. Things like pornographic sexual content and depictions of self-harm. Two additional notes here:
2a.) There have been *some* challenges to content that is LGBT+ content. *Tango Makes Three* depicts two gay penguins in a zoo (it's a true story) and it was challenged, but it does NOT depict anything graphic or sexual. It's just about how two male penguins raised a chick. It's pretty benign. Sometimes we push a bit too far and this is an example of us being a bit out of line (we need to keep it real or we'll have a harder time winning the argument).
2b.) There is a huge difference between what is acceptable to a 16 or 17 year-old and what is acceptable to a 13 or 14 year-old. Huge. If content is ok for the former, but not the latter, we need to make sure it is not in spaces accessible latter.
3.) The Left aggressively lies and exaggerates. We have to NOT do the same (see point 2a) and fight back with the truth. The truth is on our side and it is what will empower us to protect our children.
The left doesn't "aggressively lie and exaggerate" anymore than the right does your side has partial truth the same side pushing the Bible which has similar if not worse content if the books in this video are to be in the adult section(i do agree with that) then so do religious texts like the Bible and any other books with religious stories because those are just as harmful to children because it's effectively recruiting them into a cult
very cool, i have the same opnions.
We should not become the woke we want to destroy
Why all the left? Ex i consider myself on the left but i agree with you on the book stuff
The way in which the penguins' actions were interpreted is bit questionable.
@@realsushrey I'm actually curious how else they could be interpreted (it more or less tells events as they happened).
That said, I'm still not convinced there was anything in there that was banworthy. It implied a gay relationship, which is fine. It didn't have anything sexually explicit or inappropriate in there.
For all the people saying we are banning books suggest the idea of a bible in every classroom and see how they turn into the ones banning books.
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No conversion therapy allowed unless it's converting straight kids LGBTQ+.
"Bu-but it's not the same because I am right!"
Those people who want to sexualize children hate the Bible
Always remember, criminals in prison, redrum pedosbears but we can’t
"The Bible has sex in it!"
"So does your book, and unlike mine, it's extremely graphic and explicit about it."
"Well, yeah, but our book says that sex with children is okay, while yours says that it's not! And it censors the sex with euphemisms instead of making it as smutty as possible! That's not fair!"
I read Crank and a bunch of other books by Ellen Hopkins when I was like 15 or 16 and it is definitely not for kids. Not even teens honestly. I had a friend who introduced the author to me and she obsessed over the main charachter and started using meth and other drugs in this crazy attempt to make her life like the book. She even started calling herself by the charachters name.
Same thing with that stupid book 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' by Hunter S. Thompson. No telling how many lives that book ruined by making drug abuse look "cool" and "intellectual".
Yeah sounds like your friend is who they were aiming it at.
Social engineering at it's finest.
What a liar. Lol
It's amazing how the people who yell about consent but don't want people to consent to the books that are obviously NOT for children.
Rules for thee but not for me.
This is interesting, when I was in high school, only junior level classes and above had the book “Maus”, and was part of the actual curriculum. Honestly, I don’t think that is a problem. It’s historical value to me seems legitimate, I feel as though too many people fail to understand how bad the holocaust actually was.
I think senior classes would do well if shown the movie “Schindler's List” as well.
My highschool showed The Pianist which I felt was perfect since it showed two major events (Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and Warsaw Uprising) as well as kept the class really engaged. Ngl, that teacher spoiled us… gave us that movie followed by 13 days when we studied the cuban missile crisis
Fair enough. It's too bad that those who disagree with some of these challenges seem to lack the kind of calm & thoughtfulness that you display.
Two questions: If there's no problem with MAUS being taught to junior & senior high schoolers, does mean it isn't quite suitable for some or many younger kids? And: Is MAUS being taught or offered to kids below junior high?
I don't know. Just asking.
Lord I remember reading the Bluest Eye in 12th grade. Everyone in my class was disgusted after reading it, and this is the same class that read Lord of the Flies and Catcher in the Rye with no problems. I remember one of the girls in my class was so disgusted with it she refused to write the essay after reading it. The ending is depressing as hell.
Isn't there a scene where a dude gets busy with a cow in it, too?
@@Cokehead_Drug_Addict_Zelensky "Love is love!", bigot! 🤣
Banning inappropriate books from school libraries equals bad. Changing the text of popular literature, without the author's consent, because it offends certain adults equals good.
The fact these people are intentionally misreporting why these books are being questioned is despicable. They should have their hard drives checked.
Yet they claimed far-right Christians shove religion down people's throats, which is sometimes true. However, the left also shove their woke religion down children's throats. The hypocrisy of both sides is real! We also should have a choice to stay straight!
I don't see a lot of "hypocrisy" from the religious fundamentalists. They're pretty open about their desire for public censorship and, in the case of Islamic fundamentalists, even private censorship. The "hypocrisy" seems pretty much limited to the Democrats.
Proverbs 5:19
Imagine choosing to expose children to sexual explicit material as the hill you want to die on?
Seriously, all groomers should be put against the wall
Germany tried that, and the whole world went against them
@@19ate4 yes, blame one group for all the worlds problems. Lol seriously where do you losers come from?
Only because they went against Israel.
Having internet in the house without paternal locks means you are giving your kids porn. Anyone who does that is a pedo
and shot
many times
in the face
'No one is reading gay porn in school'
Also
'Stop banning our gay porn in school!'
Tbf a lot of the students (girls) are reading smut online nowadays.
Doesn't mean it should be encouraged.
@@Yoshi278 okay, just because something exists on the internet doesn't mean it needs to be in a school
@@MrGgabber *cough like p**n
They want the books because they are performing "Conversion Therapy" on straight kids.
It’s working
In other words, grooming.
Not their end goal - they want the kids not to understand who their friends or enemies are so they can raid the treasury while we set our own kids straight.
None of this is about “trans,” it’s about starting a fire in your kitchen so you can’t stop them from robbing your safe while you put it out.
THANK YOU! On the reddit book forum there was a discussion about this weeks ago and I desperately tried to explain what is ACTUALLY happening! Nobody talks about banning books in public libraries or in general, it's about keeping adult fiction out of elementary and middle schools, not even high school.
I was reading above my age level as a kid and allowed to take pretty much anything home from the school library. I read teen romances with explicit sex scenes, gone wrong drug deals, rape and crime novels and brutal thrillers when I was 8-12. These books ABSOLUTELY f*cked me up! It doesn't matter if it's just 2 pages. 2 pages is certainly enough.
Movies, shows, even music, all of it has content warnings/age restrictions EXCEPT books! You can slap a beautifully, glittery pink cover on any filth and legally sell and market it to children. Nobody can keep up to date with all of the stuff that is published today. Librarians, teachers and parents do not stand a chance. We need flairs for books so that we can categorize them more easily. There should be a label on every book if it contains explicit sex, self harm, suicide etc.
Fantasy p*rn like Sarah J. Mass's stuff is in the damn YA section! I've seen 12yos read it. Her books aren't Harry Potter or even The Shadow Hunters. Sex and romance are no longer hinted at but explicitly described. It's not the same. Those depictions of sexuality are just as inappropriate as video p*rn, since the sex shown is not realistic in any way (usually). Is it fun to read if you're an adult who already experienced sex irl? Sure. Is is misguiding (at best) to teens? Again, sure. Boys are targeted by p*rn online, girls by the written version of it.
I love how they say "young adult" when they talk about books, but when a 19 year old black man commits armed robbery, then they say "he was just a kid".
yeah the bunch of 19 year black men breaking shit for no reason are considered "kids"
They do the same all their "mass shooting" events
@@cesruhf2605 they are in every way except physically, that’s why they break shit.
That's exactly their method: black is white, up is down, war is peace, freedom is slavery, etc etc etc. Destroy definitions, and you destroy thought -- and a man who can't think is easy to conquer.
@@luigimrlgaming9484 No; It's because that's their "culture". They really do idolize shit rats like Fentanyl Floyd.
Is it a restriction when movie theaters demand ID to see a rated R movie? Is it a restriction when GameStop demands parental consent to purchase a rated M game?
Isn’t Huckleberry Finn banned in multiple schools? How come these liberals aren’t criticizing the banning of that book? Oh wait I guess it’s okay to ban SOME books, right?
Huck Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird have been books on the chopping block for decades
I suspect Huck Finn is attacked from the left not the right.
and The Cat in the Hat....LOL
that was a great book when i was in school way way back.
How about we just let kids read if they want to? I'd love it if we had the most famous book for these dumbasses banned for this shit at 3:00, but it's literally the Christian bible.
Can’t believe taking explicit books off school shelves is even a conversation we have to have. I’m an adult, with proper emotional adjustment and reasoning skills and I’m exhausted of all the explicit content we get flashed at us everywhere. I couldn’t imagine being a child and having to navigate that in a facility that’s charged with caring for you while you’re there
Librarian here! I love your videos especially when you discuss these topics. I once decided to try out a LGBT++ book that was on a recommended reading list for middle schoolers. I randomly opened it up and my eyes landed upon a description of guy on guy action. Needless to say, LGBT++++ books are inherently sexually explicit no matter what folks say. In addition, I LOVED Me and Earl and the Dying Girl. However I would never read that book with, as in a book club, or recommend it to just any teen. It’s full of teen boy bravado, like in that passage you read, that not everyone will enjoy or find amusing. So again every book has its reader and let’s not pretend that every book is for everyone.
That isn't true at all inmy experience. Unfortunately people tend to use LGBT as a fetish, so many written by (especially straight women for some reason) are just that. I avoid those. However, there are some very nice family friendly comics and books with zero sex, bad language, etc. Castle Swimmer, Realta, ZomCom, Duncan and Eddie, The Little Trashmaid, Tamberlane, and many more have no sex and are very age appropriate for middle school. There are also many hetro stories that are very explicit and horrible too.
I’m not the biggest fan of the t in lgbt so I’m glad that more of them are being banned
@@1faithchick7 that's because the community has been infiltrated by fetishists that are forcing their shit out and shouting louder than the "normal" people in the community. Smaller communities are often hijacked by bad actors once it is apparent that the movement/community is of great interest/value with respect to its size, since that is an easy target for extremists, narcissists and the like. Really not much we can do about that, since "normies" are just copy pasting the bullshit and the media is supporting it, and the real voices are silences by their own communities. I know too many people in the LGBT who are scared to speak their opinions because of how their own community would react.
@@1faithchick7 Nah the lgbts mostly write terribly cause their whole personality only consists of sexuality so they can only write about sex instead of an actual story
@@barr4ckObama240 anti semitic
It’s interesting how so many of these books depict young people attempting to unalive themselves. It’s almost as if they’re glorifying death.
they've been doing that since columbine
There is a reason for it, a disturbingly high number of teens already attempt it. Reading about how someone else attempted it, but survived it and worked through it is an important lesson to learn. It's all about context.
It's like trying to teach abstinence only sex ed. It doesn't work and makes it worse. They're going to do it no matter how much you tell them not to, so it's more important to teach them about it, talk to them about the consequences and how to do it safely. With regards to self deletion you teach them how to deal with the feelings that lead to it, which requires talking about self deletion.
@@BloodyFooll It's a tough subject to address, but that's supposed to be why school librarians/committees exist, to go through the books and find the good ones that are a healthy first exposure for teens. We're just handing the reins to the wrong people.
I think about it like slavery and racism. We have lots of books that deal with the topic and they're taught in almost every single English class in the English speaking world, books like To Kill A Mockingbird. They put those subjects into context and show why it's wrong by making you empathise with the characters.
It's possibly to do the same with self deletion and sex. There is a correct age and context to have these presented to children. Children need to be exposed to healthy depictions of sex after puberty, as filtered through innocent depictions in young adult novels, otherwise they go off and experiment on their own completely blind.
Self deletion is harder but reading about a character who wants to do then decides not to, following their journey to better mental health, and most importantly teaching them to tell other people about their thoughts so they can get them help, is important to teach them BEFORE they begin to consider committing it themselves.
Thank you for doing the research that not all of us know how to find. You actually report the non-biased facts. And it’s funny how it always makes them look bad. Always. So anyway… Thank you.
Ask these same people that are claiming that taking books out of the classroom and curriculum is wrong ¿would having Christian books in the classroom be acceptable?
Back in my day, only books clearly for education or historicity, were in my school's libraries. If we needed to do research and find more books, we went to the city library. We didn't expect to find EVERY SINGLE BOOK published in the world to be at a school's library, let alone books on pornography or sex-related matters.
I remember reading both "Perks of Being a Wallflower" and "Looking for Alaska in my grade 12 English classroom. To put it bluntly, yes. It's very explicit; in fact, the BJ scene I remember vividly, when Alaska is using toothpaste in order to teach the main protagonist and his girlfriend how to have Oral sex right in front of her. My class very well understood the scene entirely, though there is one scene they forgot to mention, and that is when Alaska offs herself, leaving the main protagonist depressed in the private school. Then there's the aftermath scene of when the gay couple breaks up, after one of the character's father finds out about the relationship (And yes, the sex scene is real, they even had the symbolism of having a tie on the closet door to prove it); when the main protagonist is walking around the cafeteria with his gay friend, the ex calls the gay man a f*ggot in the cafeteria, before an all out brawl is started. So, there's a bit more info on the book and the good reason why it shouldn't be read by anyone in K-8.
Any 18 and under. Reading these kinds of books are also not good for the mental health of the children reading them.
There is such a thing called 2nd hand trauma.
This is the reason why I can't stand YA novels anymore
I can't stand most of these books, but Looking for Alaska is not that bad. If you read the book the moral is that sex is often less rewarding than actual love.
That's crazy, I beat the garbage out of a kid in eight grade for calling me a "fag" in the middle of the cafeteria. I was the new kid in Wisconsin, from Florida, and couldn't let that slide. We ended up being friends later on
When someone says “thEy’rE BAnNIng bOoKS!!” I simply reply “Oh yeah? What books are they banning?” Oddly I never get a response back. Weird.
It's cuz they know.
I read the crank series when I was 12. Shocking this was normal at my school to see books like this. I also read MAUS! Crazy. Absolutely crazy. None of it affected me though. I had a very complicated background growing up as a kid. I was adopted. My parents are both highly educated people, although my mother has a lot of issues (we don’t talk anymore), and I have ptsd from living in an orphanage for the first 4 years of my life. Yes, I was a child, but I lived a life where I witnessed and experienced some really horrible things, so I’ve seen this dark ugliness in the world, and books like Crank or “me, earl and the dying girl”, are very real experiences that even kids as young at 10 grow up being surrounded by. The main character from crank was literally 13 when she got raped and pregnant, this is real and horrible stuff that happens to children, and I do believe children (specifically tweens and teens) need to be made aware of these things somehow? To protect them. To let them know not to trust strangers, to stay together in groups, etc. before the 90s, I bet the world was a safer place. Even my home country is much safer than the US today. Do I think crank glorified any of this? I don’t think so. The book was a reflection on reality. Should I have read it when I was 12? Probably, probably not. I was mature for my age and I understood these things. Some children are mature enough and understanding towards heavy issues such as war, genocide, rape, domestic violence, etc. what I believe, is up to the parents, but I don’t think children should be completely sheltered from the world. With that being said, should books like crank or MAUS be in a K-5 grade? Absolutely NOT. Middle school, I’m on the fence about
, but for high school, yes. However, the weird lgbt stuff, the step by step guides on having sexual intercourse, etc… none of that belongs in ANY school library. Not even university. It’s straight up sexual content. You can get it on Amazon or the bookstore if you’re an adult, and that’s your sort of thing, but it doesn’t belong in either kid friendly spaces or any academic/professional settings. Leave your sex life out of it. It’s that simple. It’s frankly disgusting and inappropriate for children, and I absolutely find it predatory. Also books like “A Court of Mist and Fury” do not belong in an academic setting either… way too sexual. If it’s just high fantasy without all the sex, then there’s no problem, but that’s straight up pornography, so I’m also giving it a no. Also seems like terrible writing anyways.
Even if these books are well written and depict deep themes, that won't make them appropriate for children.
I personally love the manga Berserk. It has a great story, deep characters and themes, together with fun action and masterful artwork. It's still a very dark and very explicit story and I would fight against any attempt to put it on a school curriculum.
Berserk fan, lets gooooooooooooooo!!!!!!
Yup... Imagine if people were demanding to show videos from the holocaust to elementary school children, these morons would be screaming that people are trying to deny history, stop teaching about ugly parts of history, etc.
It doesn't matter if the material is accurate and should be taught... There are subjects that ARE NOT APPROPRIATE FOR CHILDHOOD! Children simply cannot understand the material, much like a 9 year old shouldn't be taught how to drive a car. 🤦
I read a lot of Ellen Hopkins books in HIGH SCHOOL. They absolutely were very mature. It had very explicit content, I certainly wouldn’t want my mom to know exactly what I was reading. Part of her whole style is using very graphic details and stories- of which are very possible realities for some teens. She did not sugar coat or glamorize a teenage girl having an eating disorder, a teenage girl who was manipulated into prostitution by an older man who she thought loved her, there’s a storyline with a gay teen boy who was so desperate for love that he allowed himself to be used by grown adult men.
It’s been nearly a decade and I can still remember thinking she was so creative for these storylines, only to later find out that she was only writing from the perspectives of very real people. The book “tricks” involves the perspectives of multiple teens who end up as prostitutes, each of them getting lost in what they thought was romance, they get hooked on drugs by their pimps to continue to turn tricks, they lose their connection with their family. It was heavy stuff, and I absolutely saw it as a cautionary tale. A lot of the time, her books rarely had happy endings. Many of the characters ended in places where they were worse off than the start of the book.
That being said, it should not be available to children. I’m fairly certain my old books at my moms house have 14+ somewhere on them. It’s meant to be for teens, to show them how awful those situations were and to not make those same choices. I even think some teens may not be ready to read those books. A cousin of mine still played with Barbies at 14 and she just held onto her childhood much longer than most people I know, I can’t imagine her even comprehending some storylines at 17. But she likely would not even have picked up the book in the first place, which I’m hoping if these books are available to children, the plot line wouldn’t catch their eye. I’m pretty sure the author herself would agree with this sentiment, as I think she’s a self described young adult author, not a Children’s author
6:40 I remember being a kid in Jr. high school WANTING to obtain and look at pornography. This was back in the 80s, and it WAS hard to find when you barely hit puberty. The rare moments any porn was found at school meant QUICK punishment, and expulsion. There was even a time when a student had a porno VHS tape, and we had a substitute teacher one class, and SOMEHOW talked the sub into playing the tape in class. The next day, that teacher was fired, and I never saw that student again (he wasn't a friend of mine so I had no idea where he ended up. Detention most likely.)
Now days you can bring up porn so easily from the internet, and now teachers are giving out porn in K-6 classes calling it "CLASS CURRICULUM." We are living in backwards times now... yet they call this "PROGRESSIVE."
oh, fuck this "progress"!
The big difference is that porn featured hot girls, not a bunch of gays and trannies
Thank you so much for this subject & for how thoroughly you covered it! Many times recently my grown kids come storming in with some vague stories of "right-wingers just banning books left & right just bc they're racist" or "because they're homophobes" but they can never elaborate and are just so full of emotion, angst & anger after hearing these lies from Twitter or wherever, that when I agree that "it surely sounds terrible but please tell me, which books & why", they don't know & just angrily answer me with "because they're just crazy, mom!"
So now I finally have the facts & they're pretty much what I thought. Thanks, this video was invaluable to me!!
Yup. This guy has some of the sharpest analysis on UA-cam-consistently-plus, he's funny without being crude!
@@marcsmirnoff936 absolutely!
This is just more evidence that we should run background checks on teachers and professors because anyone thinking that those books belong in the libraries of grade schools and high schools need a visit from Chris Hanson.
one of the funniest tweets was someone showing of a banned book part of barns and nobles. if they were legit banned they would not sold there at all.
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There have been multiple documented cases where parents and students have brought these books up on objection to pta meetings and the like, reading out the sexually explicit passages. They usally get shut down by the people presiding over the meeting for being inappropriate at the meeting...yet those same people who turn the mics off for adults defend having the books available to minor children. Its really bizarre
I like Maus. It is a very well written and illustrated graphic novel which serves as a great depiction and reminder of the horrors of the Nazi regime. I think more people should read it. I do not think it is appropriate for younger readers or that they should have access to it.
Paulson's Lawn Boy is indeed a great children's book which depicts the values of hard work and entrepreneurship and which I myself loved as a elementary schooler. Unfortunate that it's being confused with Evinson's work of the same name.