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"Why do people keep comparing us to Nazis?"
*bans the same book Nazis banned*
"I just don't get it."
*Spreads hate about the same groups as the Nazis did*
"It's really a mystery"
haha
@@johnlast6066 So your best defense for book banning is "Didn't happen lol" truly a profound intellectual.
@@johnlast6066
"And Tango Makes Three"
"Stamped"
"Two Boys Kissing"
"How to be an antiracist"
"I am Jazz"
"We Are The Ants"
"Dear Martin"...
And the list goes on. More than 30 states have been affected by these book bans so stfu and go back to your cave with your McDonald's University degrees. And yes, banning books from school libraries quite literally equals to banning this literature for young people (Not to mention that these book bans have also affected public libraries but your response of course will be "didn't happen lol").
Also, I know you're a troll. I'm only humoring you because commenting on videos usually has a positive affect on the algorithm possibly picking said video up.
@@johnlast6066 Effectively define "ban".
Very informative video. I also appreciate you giving tangible ways to fight for this cause. I feel like it is often a missed opportunity when people make video essays like this. One detail I did find interesting and I’ve noticed (not just from you) is that when referencing slavery, Jim Crow or civil rights topics I often hear people now days referring to Black Americans as people of color. I know that most people’s intentions are not harmful and that term is meant to be inclusive but as a Black American or ADOS(American descendant of slavery) I find that referring to us as people of color or BIPOC tends to marginalize our specific history in America. It sometimes feels like people are afraid to say Black and revert to people of color but the issues at hand or disproportionately affect black people or only dealing with black folk. I currently live in Massachusetts and have had several conversations with my white friends about this very topic and being intentional about language they use. Historically black Americans have had their issues marginalized because of vague language and have had little to no specific justice for us due in part to us being lumped into vague terms.
Again I really appreciate your videos and I am glad I came across them a few weeks back. I have referred your channel to some of my work colleagues. Just wanted to give an observation and perhaps something to think about. Keep up your great work.
Did you know that not so long ago, we would be called racist if we said "black" instead of "people of color"?
By whom
ABSOLUTE MADNESS !!! Even before grade school I was introduced to the amazing universe of the written word because the family came into possession of a set of World Book Encyclopedia. I thumbed through them all through the years and noticed that if you are introduced to the written word early in life the addiction never ends. Once I graduated to comic books Sci Fi in all forms was next. A literal chain reaction in the brain is begun from the first page bringing us to near critical mass. So long as books exist a bookworm can never know boredom. To ban any book deprives us all of the thrilling adventure we experienced on the 10th moon of Jupiter. Not to mention the painfully graphic depiction of a soldier's "Chronicles from the 'Nam" Unfortunately, rich people seem think that it is their duty to arbitrarily decide how us regular folks should live. The facts make it clear that they are unqualified to have rulership over us.
My home state of Utah passed a law banning obscene material from school libraries etc. etc.... So a school district removed the Bible from their libraries because it contains violent and pornographic material. Needless to say Republican lawmakers started backpedaling hard.
I just heard about that recently, that was clever move and it's very true.
It's called malicious compliance and it's great.
@@biteofdogI’ve read some very graphic works and seen pretty much the worst that the internet has to offer. That said, I can honestly say the Bible is one of the most violent and pornographic books I’ve ever laid eyes on. And, yes, I’ve read the whole thing. Multiple times. It’s lunacy.
@Al B Dough stop lying. Go and read what sumerian or Egyptian kings did to their enemies and their women and children. Go read marquis de sade or what muhamed did to unbelievers.
@@shacktime The worst books of the bible are absolutely not something a “good Christian” would like to hear without knowing where it came from. I’ve seen people be appalled that the full and complete ESV bible sits out for children to read, too, though, so maybe it’s not foolproof to try and maliciously comply with it. 🤷
"Book Bans Are Fascist", yes, something we'd know if we actually learned history. Too bad we banned those books.
This is conservatives wet dream of a "Small Government" is to support a totalitarian regime that only benefits them.
Book bans? I’d say the endless stream of school shootings proves more than anything that not only do Republicans not GAF about kids they seem to have an open disdain and contempt for them.
Today’s GOP is pure evil. And no, that’s not hyperbole.
JABRIEL251 - Hello! What factual history is not currently being taught in school?
@@ianalan4367how about how the American education system hides the atrocious actions America takes against it's own people?
@@ianalan4367 any history texts that are based around CRT or the 1619 project are pure fiction.
As a former kid myself, nothing makes a kid want to read a book like banning it.
Too true here and these types of characters also are either out of their minds and as another recent video that came support measures aside from book bans and burns also are the ones with laws criminalizing homelessness and hostile architecture.
Funny thing is it can work in conservatives’ favor but they don’t realize it lol when I was in middle school my friend gave me some religious book her aunt gave her and my dad yelled at me for mentioning it to him and my mom (he didn’t want me influenced by some religious nut since he wasn’t religious). And guess what I did? I read it on my own in the bathroom and hid it from them lol him not wanting me to read it made me more curious about this mysterious book.
@@vvieites001 That really is something.
A number of years ago I was on a road trip with a friend and my brother's 2 sons who were teenagers at the time and my friend and I were talking about how we found his Dad's porn when we were kids and my nephews immediately said yeah we found our Dad's porn too
@@glenjohnson5323 Really had some cool memories.
In grade 9 our teacher told us we couldn’t study the curriculum of, To Kill a Mockingbird, unless our parents called the office to complain it was banned. We did and thank goodness, that book changed me deeply and gave me a love of reading… and this was 🇨🇦 in the 90s. It was about guilt. 🤦🏻♀️
We're not talking about To Kill a Mockingbird here
@@WillieBrownsWeiner Why not? It's a controversial book that's banned in some places, no?
@@WillieBrownsWeiner actually it is since anything racial is CRT. Its also too woke
@WinterCicadas what are the top 10 on that list princess? Exactly. You have to dive all the way to #15 to find something on that list that isn't LGBTQ centric. That's the issue.
@WinterCicadas my true colors? It'd not like I'm trying to hide them. "True colors" is trying to say people are solely banning books like TKAM when you damn well know the vast majority are LGBT centric bullshit.
Fantastic presentation.
Have they banned the book "Black Like Me " yet? When I read that book purchased from a second hand book store as a young adolescent in the early 1970's, it "Woke" me up, and I became the sole non racist in our household of three. Later on I had to learn how to reparent myself. My homelife as an only, unwanted, mistake of a child was pretty dysfunctional.
It's really amazing what books can do for young people.
I think we sort of forget in the information age. But the library was a really magical place back in the day.
I'm glad you "got woke" and eventually got more free.
Something my grandfather used to say I still use as a personal meterstick - "How do you know you're right, if you've never asked yourself if you're wrong." The problem with book banning is no opposing views to those who "up front" think they're right are available, making it impossible to evaluate the positions espoused by them, which is the whole point. They probably know they're wrong but don't want anyone else to figure it out.
They claim to stand for free speech yet they try to obstacle forms of expression that might go against their doctrine.
They claim to stand against government meddling into private business yet they try to meddle whenever a business takes marketing choices not in line with their beliefs.
They claim to stand for life, yet they lobby against public services and for the ban of abortion, forgetting that illegal clinics of dubious quality would sprout up.
I would have more respect towards them if they admitted they want nothing but absolute power, instead of sugarcoating.
@ Mar Cello I completely agree 👍 with you about this topic
A little bit of sugar makes the poison go down easier.
Lead makes the wine taste sweeter
They don't want your respect, they want absolute power. But if they _just say that,_ then the mask comes off and the odiousness of their ideology becomes apparent. Which, y'know, makes accruing power difficult.
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"History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes." -Mark Twain
Not that kids in Florida will ever hear that quote
Minnesota banned books too.
Great quote.
Uh.... it would be leftists mote likely to ban Mark Twain
“It’s like poetry, it rhymes” -George Lucas
@@ethanmiller3200 Minnesota also banned porn in schools.
What amazes me is that books that are being banned in schools now were required reading when I was in school.
Ironic isn't it?
@Eidelmania Literate? Yes, I can see why people are worried.. educated people are harder to control..
@Eidelmania (p.s. yes, I got the joke on Mary Wright's name.. still though.. )
@Eidelmania Look how you turned out. That's a reason for not banning any of them, or critical reasoning skills.
Right, and that's how we got white supremacy and the patriarchy. You just want more of the same, racist.
It’s so insulting how most banned books are just books about Race, Religion, Gender Identity, Sexuality, and real issues that happen such as Rape is just degrading people from these groups and degrading other ideas and perspectives… Y’know, what most books are meant to do…?
Anne Frank's Diary, letters by Martin Luther King, heck people tried to have "Charlotte's Web" banned because death exists in the book, and it has talking animals (I'd hate to see what they think of Sesame street etc.)
It's just insane.
Conservatism is an actual mental disorder
All children are straight. None of them are transgender and none of them are homosexuals. They only get that way when they're brainwashed. Books like that should be banned.
The biggest library about science on gender was burned by the Nazis. I hate those fu**ers and I wish their ideology and everything that's close to it will be buried at some point soon.
“Pornogrpahy” is also not even legally defined. At least here in TN. When the anti drag bill was attempting to go through, many people, even conservatives, were concerned with how vague it was and how bad it could get. Girls wearing shorts in public could potentially fall under it ffs. Book bans dont seem to be too different
Yea, but that's intentional for the fascists doing it. Firstly because if they specifically define what they're banning it would be blatantly unconstitutional, and second it makes it easier to remove whatever they want,and not require a significant amount of proof of a reason at all.
@@alberve The porn books We’re never in the libraries to begin with, you made that up. Cry about it .
Pornography is defined as people banging on film. Showing penetration. Chicks with pricks are defined as drag. I have more definitions if you wish
This all reminds me of a post I read about fan-fiction authors receiving hate for writing erotic material that was then accessed by minors. It's not the responsibility of authors or platforms to protect your children. All they can do is tag their works appropriately, after that, it's up to parents. It's the same with physical books. I know at my public library, there's nothing stopping a kid from wandering into the fiction section, picking up a book that contains any number of graphic scenes, and checking it out. The librarians are not responsible for intervening, and a kid reading something inappropriate is not a failing of the library, but the parents. Anyone who thinks otherwise is looking for a scapegoat.
❤Absolutely, it is the fault of parents who shun their DUTY to teach and train or instruct their own children. So they blame the school or library because they are inadequate.
Btw. Our school did have books meant for specific grades.. as someone who loves reading and always has, it was frustrating as heck. Eventually the school librarian realized I just really love reading, and let me borrow whatever I wanted though.. but that should have been for all kids. I'm so tired of cookie cutter education, that has all enrichment stripped away, just to "teach to the test"..
Yes, I have read "mein Kampf" as well as Anne Frank's diary (and many other books).. it hasn't made me into a Nazi.. it made me well read. Stop pretending kids are blank slate idiots ..
P.S. grrrr!
I'm gonna go read now..
Not political specifically, but in my own experience school librarians hate neurodivergent or curious kids. When I was in elementary school I was literally banned from parts of the school library because the books I wanted were not "age appropriate" for my grade. I used to be an avid reader back in 3rd grade, reading faerie books, frog and toad, avatar hidden scrolls, etc. and now as a young adult it's hard for me to pick up a book--and not just because of a reading learning disability. Even with a full library of modern and antique books I have collected over the years.
The books in question I wanted to read as a kid? The eyewitness shark book, the eyewitness ancient Egypt book, the cat warriors books, and pretty much anything with cool pictures. I was 7 years old. I was essentially banned from reading--and then they wondered why I had a hard time reading, even when I got reading glasses. 😒I had no diagnosis of neurodivergence at the time, or of specific disabilities, or any support other than the glasses to prevent headaches, despite some pretty obvious issues I had and the fact that I had big medical issues as a kid that required open heart surgery. And this was on top of being criticized and yelled at for reading "too slow" or not "reading correctly". (Which looking back on it, was just them trying to make every analyze reading the same way, and through ableist neurotypical-centric standards.)
So ya--even if it's not directly fascist in this way or anything--I would say that schools don't want disabled and/or neurodivergent kids to read. Whether they are diagnosed or not. If a kid is "too weird" you don't get to read. I'd say that's more so capitalism than anything else though--can't have educated disabled people wanting rights!
@@ErutaniaRose books like Nobokov’s Lolita are banned for a reason from elementary students. It was emotionally hard to me to read this when I was 18.
@@CactusGirl-x7f "gifted kids" is an arbitrary label they apply to kids to encourage academic achievement. And I know this as someone who was called gifted to the point where it was uncomfortable. The gifted kids I went to school with during head start and no child left behind, were put into a special class where they would read anything that wasn't controversial but not particularly interesting or of any specific educational value. I will say "The Giver" was a good introduction to dystopian fiction. But this was not part of the corriculum and was only read at the will of the teacher and students. There were not many things we read that were worth reading.
I personally read Alison Weir during this time and it definitely would be banned if it was in the school library which is a damn shame cause the scene where the still-born child was thrown into the fireplace was especially important to me as I was searching for disturbing material.
@@ErutaniaRose I'm sorry that happened to you. I hasten to think you just got a bad deal and was an exception to the rule. I was always a friendly kid willing to help out so I given pretty much carte blanc on books even got to check out more than the limit on holidays. Sadly you could have rubbed the wrong person the wrong way and that set you on a path that no matter what you could never redeem yourself. I had a teacher like that. I do hope you had caring parents and they took you to the library and you got to carry on your love for books.
@@RIPKabosu2000 LOL you mean a gifted child has more of a chance to become a top tax earner and therefore give back more to their community than had they not graduated and applied themselves at all.
Book banning in the age of the internet isn't going to stop children from learning, they'll just learn what fascism looks like
@@lolsotho-te8jb You're delusional it literally is fascism I never read any inappropriate books in school
@@lolsotho-te8jbwogs did this?
@@lolsotho-te8jbif you don’t want your kid to read “obscene books” then tell them not to, regulate your own kid before you tell your senator to regulate everyone
This is just a bigger opportunity for us on the left to welcome people on our side. The loud minority is that, a minority. It's just time we group up and take down hate groups like this. Beating a nazi DOES NOT make you as bad as the nazi, you're stopping them. Letting them go FFA like that just ruins everything for EVERYONE, and I mean it. I'm canadian and the current situation in the US is hitting us hard. It's no longer safe for LGBTQ+ people anymore because of the US anti-trans war. The US is making it worse for EVERYONE
Hopefully, they'll see it and be taught by, whatever material they have, that it's bad. Very very bad!
I knew something was fucked when my own dad told me he genuinely believes that school librarians are trying to seduce kids to be gay/trans. I've never been so speechless in my life
Going by the odds, it is likely that your dad is trying to hide something deeper and darker in his past or present or plans, be wary.
I would know i worked at a library. Its at the top of every good librarian's to-do list.
1 make coffee
2 organize returned books
3 turn the kids gay
good times
Or he consumes a lot of propaganda.
So what books were "they" trying to ban at your library?
@@aquari_2344 not in that order, though, right? I don't think they'd be as outraged as they are if turning kids gay was your #3 priority.
As a Florida man myself, I picked a bad time to try to become a public school teacher.
There is no good time in the US for that, you deserve better than to be treated like a glorified baby sitter by idiots.
As a Florida resident with children, you are incredibly needed. Not because I need a babysitter but because they need an education that is as truthful and honest as possible so they can fight back against fascism alongside us
@@bangsandbullets I’ll do my best. That’s a promise.
@@bangsandbullets How does porn do that?
@@JayBee-cr8jm you're the one mentioning porn. Sounds kinda pervy, to me. Maybe seek some therapy about that. Also, kids in Florida need people who will teach them ACTUAL history, not just the whitewashed parts of it; that queer people exist and they deserve to be protected; that families come in different shapes, sizes, and gender expressions; and they need comprehensive, common sense sex education that is not abstinence based, or predicated on shame, that educates people on how all bodies work, that gender and sexuality is a spectrum, the importance of informed enthusiastic consent, and how human biology functions.
But sure, go ahead and create more logical fallacies that you back yourself into.
The Dr Seuss books weren’t banned though, the publisher chose to stop publishing them.
I came here to say this.
Yup, exactly. Everything else she said was bang on! But don’t think we should take that as a “learning point”
Yes I was going to say this as well.
And they were obscure works of his that few had even heard of and weren't even in current circulation. But from how cable news addicts described it, you'd think that President Biden had signed an executive order outlawing The Cat in the Hat and Oh the Places You'll Go.
THIS
Book bans lead to book burnings, burned books lead to burned men. It's terrifying stuff.
"Those who burn books will in the end burn people."
-Heinrich Heine..
Very true, and sad that this is still current...
Are any of these laws banning books from the public? Or is it from public school libraries?
Vic w....yes, absolutely they are banned from the public - public schools are by definition part of the public
@@vicw9223 Mostly school and university libraries..
Those wanting books banned don't have enough power yet to try this nationally.. but where would you draw the line?
Also.. with the internet these days it also seems to just like prohibition and anti-abortion only to put people more at risk as they will get the materials elsewhere through channels without oversight or guidance whatsoever.
What do you do then? Expell those students for having read a banned book? How would you enforce it?
During prohibition the government went as far as to poison booze to scare people away from drinking it anyway.
Before Roe v Wade we all know the horror stories of dark alleys and coat hangers..
Heaven knows banning it hasn't stopped many from using pot or mushrooms.. meanwhile people served years in prison for having these illegal substances..
People have died because of the lack of oversight, which is why we ended up changing the laws, so alcohol and abortions and pot etc can be regulated, and provided at least in certain circumstances when necessary. (Ie medical marijuana, abortions for ectopic pregnancies or cases of rape etc.. alcohol.. well.. the consumption isn't higher than it was under prohibition, but the associated crime rates are).
Why are we banning books from schools, rather than teaching students critical reading skills?
@Vic W they would if they could, but then they couldn't hide behind "concern for children".
"Think of the children" is the most ironic sentence in human history because the people who primarily use it never rally against child labor or child marriage. They rally against children's books with gay penguins. Which is double ironic because real life penguins do a lot of gay stuff.
Does child labor or marriage occur in their country?
@@cajunking5987 yes. It's legal in 42 states. But you'd know that if you didn't actively ignore every single fact that's presented to you. Google it.
@@cajunking5987In the past two years, at least 10 states have introduced or passed laws rolling back child labor protections
No one's rallying against gay penguins.
They're rallying against books that contain pornographic imagery and detailed sexual language. It's not appropriate for school libraries.
I guess in 2023 thinking it's not appropriate for 8 year olds to be looking at porn is 'fascist'..
fun fact: some female koalas get so annoyed by males who wanna mate w/ them that they hook up with fellow females, sometimes getting into groups
“We have moved beyond the idea of America as a perfect nation.”
What a powerful characterization. This definitely resonated with me.
Thanks, Leeja!
"All Quiet on the Western Front" was written by Erich Maria Remarque's, a veteran of the first world war and the war was also the subject of the book. It was banned in Germany for being anti-German, but banned in other places for being pro-German.
The book was anti-war, it showed the terrifying reality of being a soldier of war
Poor guy, he lost on all fronts
Same with 1984 being banned for being pro-communist and anti-communist in different places.
Not so much pro or anti German as much as the anti-war theme was "unpatriotic", and that anti-war viewpoint likewise wasn't well received with jackasses that got off on wars most of the European bans were for it being anti-war propaganda, same here in Australia.
Crazy how people calling for book bans are also for "parents rights". The parents should be responsible for what they let their own child reads, instead they ask for a bureaucracy to decide what all kids can read. Any parent that is for book bans needs to reevaluate some things.
And that parent apparently has the right to screw around with the education of _every other_ parent's children.
Many parents who are in favor of book bans (like my parents, fortunately my sister and I are both adults) WANT their children to be indoctrinated by conservative Christian ideology and not exposed to any ideas that challenge their worldview. I'm extremely lucky that my parents couldn't afford private school and weren't in a position to homeschool us, so I read everything I could get my hands on and received a real and well rounded education. Parents like mine are taking control of school boards now, and Republicans absolutely love it. The whole issue with "parental rights" in education is assuming that all, or even most, parents want their children to be fully educated. Many of them don't. And when state governments allow it through book bans, that's child abuse allowed and encouraged by the state.
ETA: My point is that the federal government should mandate a full education of all topics for all children and not allow state governments or parents to allow their children to be deprived of information
A close friend was born and raised in England. When her brothers came to visit a couple of years ago, they would laugh at their nieces and nephews (not in front of them) when it came to their education. They thought American education was so lacking and would laugh uproariously at times when they would witness misspelling or grammar mistakes. Though they were good natured (mostly), it was downright embarrassing.
Nobody is stopping the books from being purchased though
Hot take: A parent should have barely any control, if any at all, over what their child is taught in school, and in most cases, homeschooling should be fucking illegal.
My cousin’s teacher asked her class to read an LGBTQ poem. Her parents went to the principal to complain, and her dad literally threatened violence against the teacher. I feel so sorry and scared for teachers and staff that have to put up with this horrific shit
Edit: High school class. Nonsexual poem.
@@NSOcarthOk Nazi
@@NSOcarth jesus christ
that is 100% more traumatizing to a child who has to learn that their teacher got harassed than a visual of two boys holding hands, i’ll just say that 😨
@@sorentothesky i mean when the sentiment is that any other relationship that isn't hetero-normative is propaganda, and showing kids that is grounds for being shot then yeah, no that's not great
@@Diana-yn2ho comprehensive sex ed prevents children from being raped. why do you want children to be raped?
I am horrified to type that my home state of Texas has banned more books than any other state. Always vying to be the worst. 😢
Fellow texan here, luckily not all schools are following the book bans despite the gov. But most schools in the state do follow, sadly.
Funny how Texas has a reputation of being a 'freedom loving' state when they are in reality quite authoritarian. This issue is just one example for another see Lawrence V Texas where the 'small government conservatives' of the Texas GOP fought tooth and nail against getting the government out of people's bedrooms in the name of legislating Christian morality which sounds a lot like a Christian version of Sharia Law.
I'm a librarian. My parents are on the side of book bans - protecting "the children" to the extent that their actual child, a librarian, may one day need protection. It's one heck of a surreal situation.
The thing I keep trying to point out to would-be book banners is that all of this is completely unnecessary. Libraries already have a formal process for the reconsideration of materials. The person fills out a form. A committee is then convened and, after the members read and review the entire work and to hear the patron's concerns, a decision is made regarding the outcome. Usually, the committee decides between a few options: to remove the book from the collection entirely, to remove it to a different part of the collection (from juvenile to teen, for instance, or from teen to adult), or to place the material in a restricted part of the collection. You don't have to go on a wild rant and change laws to jail people. You can just fill out a form. The process already exists.
That's what conservatives do; create new problems to solve made up issues because solving the real issues would take introspection, growth and REAL sacrifice.
I remember my favorite author as a kid, Chuck palahniuk, was totally unavailable in my public school library - that sucked, but I assume it was because many of his books do include graphic pornographic material which is likely not appropriate for schools. We all know that certain books can be called into question for their content and that they may be unsuitable for schoolchildren, because that’s something that has always been taken care of by the actually informed and caring people who decide what is and isn’t suitable for kids, with careful consideration... Now, any bigot can say anything is “inappropriate” and incite a witch-hunt against qualified people who know better. It sucks that my favorite author wasn’t available in my school library, but the idea that librarians and teachers are being punished for the simple act of letting books with much less “sensitive” material exist, simply because some parents and politicians are terminally uninformed and bigoted, is horrifying to me
You can go and look up each one of these books that are being “banned.” You can find videos of parents reading these books to the school boards, and you will notice that the *school board shut them down because of how perverse the books were.*
So the books are so perverse that school boards don’t want them being read out loud in a public space, but somehow people still think they are perfectly acceptable for young children to read them?
And you wonder why people call y’all “groomers.”
But if all they have to do is fill out a form... how will parents feel like a special boy or special girl for throwing such a temper tantrum because a book exists?
@@VictusG Ironic that you have a "V for Vendetta" logo as your profile picture and here you are making an argument as if you were a follower of Sutler and _The Party._
And you wonder why people call you fascist.
It's always about fear. Cotrol issues. They must control the shape of society so that it tip toes around their insecurities.
…speaking of “fear.” Goes both ways….if you’re honest.
@@eclipsewrecker No to the extent that authoritarian conservative control freaks weaponize it. Even Winnie the poo from China, Putin and Kim Jong Il are conservative, same most religious extremists.
@@eclipsewrecker both sides aren't fascist
@@mytruecrimelibrary neither side is. Don’t be dishonest.
@@eclipsewrecker maga Republicans are fascists. Fascism isn't some mysterious and esoteric concept but a very specific set of tactics used to install an authoritarian regime enforced by violence and terrorism.
Basically, if you're afraid of books you shouldn't have any part in the education system.
Yes and I think if you want the world to burn so you can be saved then you should have no part in making our laws.
You’re dishonest
@WaryofExtremes Whenever their parents deem it appropriate, of course.
And you can shield your kids from the world, but you shouldn't be able to make the choice for my family.
@@WaryofExtremes Only Facists try to erase the people they hate from the books kids see. LGBT people are humans like everyone else and books that acknowledge their existence are not sexual just because of that. What is happening now is pure evil.
@@NSOcarth Oh, it's kind of a funny story! I was at this lake, you see, and there was this lady with a sword and...
_...why heck are you replying to a comment from 10 days ago you doofus!?_
When i was seven years old, i made it my goal to read the bible from cover to cover. Most of it went over my head but i tried. I remember getting to the part when Lots daughter slept with her father to carry on the family name. Even then there was something disturbing about that to me. To make it worse is it was a "kids verson" of the bible, so its not like a was readying straight up KJV. So if theses people want to ban education that can save kids from abuse because it has adult content, they should ban the bible
Some parts of the Scriptures are rather mature and so Bible reading should not be done by kids alone, they should read it with their parents so that they may be properly guided.
Librarians were the greatest people in my school. I went to primary school in a French speaking area, but the only language I knew when I first got there was Chinese. I couldn’t even talk to my teachers, everything was extremely hard at first. But when I discovered books at the library, I started reading children’s books and beginners comics, and I soon got the hang of it. The librarians were always so helpful! They watched me go from mainly image-based French books to reading full series, and they were so cheerful and supportive❤ I miss those wholesome ladies, hope they’re doing well.
The benign purveyors of wisdom such an undervalued occupation. Great story!❤❤
they also burned books and materials from THE INSTITUTE OF SEXOLOGY which was key in early research into transgender people
Yeah in 1930s Nazi Germany, setting back research on transgender, intersex, and lgbtq+ (I prefer using the q term because it’s all too easy for certain individuals to remove letters from the acronym, but I’m not sure if UA-cam does) healthcare in general. I highly encourage reading the writings of Magnus Hirschfield, who founded the Institute :]
All nazis hate trans people. Because all trans people are smarter than all nazis. Nazis hate a lot of people.
Based, transgenders are evil
Criminally underrated comment.
Among the many different moral panics going on the wave of anti-trans bs irks me the most. Its literally the same anti gay talking points from the 80s and 90s, except the nose candy was better back then.
Moreover there were millions of dollars spent on so-called conversion therapy research. There is no evidence of anyone whose sexuality was changed, only that if you tortured people, they'll still be gay, except so many of these subjects attempt suicide due to the "therapy".
We probably will never be able to thank Magnus Hirschfield for his work. Strangely enough, every time I meet an anti -Trans crusader, i always ask if they've heard of the good doctor and what happened to his research.
Nobody has. The news never told them about it. They Google it though. "Are you on the side of the fascists?" I ask.
More than once i have seen the response "Im against degeneracy"
Human sexuality is not degeneracy.
Somewhere along the line people also forgot Nazis are bad and don't need any respect.
As far as the institute, their research is still valid.
Lastly, again, there shoud be a conversation about spreadng lies on social media. Erstwhile Hercules actor Sorbo is famously good at spreading bullshit. Him and others like him should be held accountable.
From schools? Don’t think we need sexology in school.
Some of the first book burned were gender studies. About Transgender people.
In the 10th grade, we had a brilliant Health teacher! At the beginning of the school year, his very first question to us was "WHY DO MEN HAVE NIPPLES?"
This is a very good question? I'm guessing it has something to do with the X chromosome
Update: I was right! In the simplest way possible but still.
I worked at a book store last summer, for a while we had a banned book section of novels notoriously contested by schools. But now, seeing works be deemed inappropriate just for presenting any ideas of individuality is saddening, and I can't believe so many lawmakers are trying to make censorship the norm
They are banning books about individuality. So it won't be "MY identity" but "OUR identity" 🤔 Sounds like...
COMUNISM
😂 😐
What gets me is that these are the same people who selectively forgot that they were supposed to be the anti-censorship people. I mean all those rants about how Dr. Seuss‘s family was pulling certain books that weren’t even that popular from circulation because they believed it was giving children the inappropriate ideas about minorities. And now here they are pulling rocks from circulation because of imagined dangerous to children. Saying that the kids are reading certain books that aren’t even available to them because librarians are good at what they do. I mean all this talk about porn books, they can’t even provide one proven case in which that happened. And they certainly can’t provide any proof that if such a case existed that it was anything more than an isolated incident.
Someone from Germany here. When I heard about all those books bans, I was genuinely speechless. Looking at all the shit happening in the States right now, I am not kidding when I say that I‘m more concerned about the future of the USA than I am about the future of countries like Russia, China etc. Not to play down the atrocious things happening in these countries, but they don‘t paint themselves as the „land of the free“ and the protector and defender of „western values“. It‘s that hypocrisy, lack of self awareness and glorification that scares me. That is not to say that everyone in the States thinks like that, of course.
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There are no book bans here in the USA. All of these books are easily acquired, even in Florida and Texas. You are accepting political hype as truth.
Porn pusher.
@@donjindra no there is book bans in schools here and even book burnings. Honestly we’re on track to become the next nazi Germany if we elect the wrong person.
@@donjindrathey are absolutely banned in Florida schools
Book ban is the real cancel culture and these republican/evangelical people have the nerve to criticize woke culture.
bc woke culture is like cancer
I am a retired middle school librarian and I am horrified by this minority assault on our children and our nation. I feel your passion and I appreciate your voice. Your message should be shared far and wide. Keep up the good work.
I love the "minority" part of your declaration. It really is stunning how much of our society is shaped by the vocal few.
@thia4012 you talking about the republicans?
The recent uproar about Dr. Seuss books was actually not because anyone was banning them. On the contrary, the publishing house which retains the rights to these books decided to stop printing some of them. Yes, the illustrations of racial minorities had a lot to do with it, but these were also some of the more obscure corners of Seuss literature and weren’t as profitable to keep printing. Literally the only people I heard protesting Dr. Seuss were conservatives protesting the cancellation. They even went so far as to include the Cat in the Hat in an illustration of “cancelled characters”, despite the fact that the Cat in the Hat is still being printed and sales are up.
The funniest part is that Dr Seuss was against "America First" and made political cartoons calling the policies fascist. Just Google them they're pretty great and were drawn in the early 1940s
Thank you, I was about to comment this. I'm upset this was put on the video as a "both sides"-ism when "liberals" didn't try to "ban Dr Seuss. Like, let's do some googling before trying to equate these things pleas.e
Glad I'm not the only who caught the "both sides" argument at 12:56 as even if the publishing did decide to "cancel" the books (which they didn't) it's not a freedom of speech issue since it's a private corporation.
@@mytruecrimelibraryBased.
LMAO. "we don't like when they ban books. only we can ban books."
"If the truth counts as indoctrination, then we have a problem here" - THIS
It's so frustrating and it's getting worse every year. They just want to oppress already oppressed groups and then these groups feel even more marginalized. It's actually very cruel. Left a like, great information.
it's not about oppression, its about not letting books that talks about sex and stuff reach children
Years ago, a group of adults sued to have James Joyce's ULYSSES banned. In court, the judge told them they needed to show him the passages they considered obscene. Of course, none of them could because none had read it. (I had tried to read it, but both times I couldn't make it past page 5O in my edition.) That was a very smart judge.
who the heck ever read all of joyce's ulysses?
@@brettellis7563"who the heck ever read all of joyce's ulysses?" Remarkably enough, in all the summer months before returning for his last year in high school, in the very same summer when the democrat convention in Los Angeles nominated for president J.F.K. and the Republican conv. in Chicago nominated Vice pres. Nixon, a 17-year-old just near Washington, D.C. in Alexandria, Va. named James D. Morrison actually did read Ulysses in its entirety, the very same "Jim" Morrison who five years after would be out in Venice Beach, Calif. to join a burgeoning new rock band who took the name "the Doors" from a book by Aldous Huxley. There's your answer, sir.
well, that's a very good answer@@gregpaspatis9425
i am a parent of 2 children under 8yrs old and we live in florida. i have fought these types of bans (and everything else desantis has implemented) my whole life. it is one thing to read and listen to media about these things happening across the country but, it is another when your child tells you that classes are not allowed in the library anymore and he can only read books that the librarian can give them. heartbreaking. 😢
I live in fla also. We are in the minority unfortunately. The ppl here have been scared into becoming anything but democratic.
It's for their own good to prevent indoctrination via subversive ideologies.
Gift cards and book stores still exist. Ditto Amazon Kindle. You want your kids to read? Let them. Get them to a public library. Through a big chunk of my life, summers were meant for reading. We went on family vacations, but only for a couple of weeks. The rest of the time in Phoenix, it was too bloody hot to do anything outside. So reading was my escape. Start with the banned books list by the ALA and work your way through the stuff DeSatan thinks your kids need protection from. No book, however profane, has ever resulted in a child becoming gay, trans, bisexual, or even straight anymore than they’ve created left-handed, freckled, blue eyed, curly haired, short, tall, skinny, pudgy, or loud kids. It just doesn’t work that way. And anyone who tells you different isn’t fit to tell anyone anything.
@phthalo- Why do you think people can only do one thing at a time?
@@codacreator6162- There's also Project Gutenberg and the Internet Archive. They're free, as is Librivox.
"Why are conservatives... so obsessed with banning books?"
The sentence could have stopped at "Why are conservatives?"
"why are conservatives?" their oversized amygdala causes them to base their lives on fear, hatred, and disgust.
Exactly
Brainrot.
C9nservatives aren't banning books.
@@johnlast6066 but conservatives are.
I remember my high school got really into Banned Book Week and they encouraged the students to check them out from the library or buy them from bookstores and that the teachers/librarians would be more than happy to answer any questions about them. Honestly, the horrors in some of these books tend to match the horrors that conservative lawmakers could create with their laws, so it’s really a lost cause all around for them.
It’s not about kids “feeling uncomfortable” it’s about uptight parents not wanting to talk about difficult subjects when those kids come home. Honestly, if they don’t like it then they should stop denying all the other kids from knowing about these things and damn well home school their precious little brats.
That's what they are doing. They are giving vouchers to parents to pull funding from public schools so they can send them to private schools.
Children aren’t sent to school to learn about adult information. Keep it simple. We are neglecting to educate our children on basic math, reading and history.
@@Beowolf-jy5rc you can call it anything you want but the statistics show our children aren’t being taught the basics to go through life.
@@Beowolf-jy5rc Try getting our teachers to actually teach. We don’t have that problem where I live. Teachers are held accountable for teaching and parents have a big decision in what is taught. More and more private schools are opening to give parents a choice.
@@Beowolf-jy5rc It all boils down to parental involvement. Where parents don’t care, you see teachers not teaching.
Here in the city of Munich, southern Germany, a big plaque on the ground commemorates the spot where the Nazis conducted their infamous book burnings. I can't believe that this is happening in the USA.
Well, the complexity of this has been brought into focus by people using the laws to remove the Bible and other books Conservatives like.
Book banning not burning 😂 I know the USA is fucked up but we not that fucked up...
A local library where i live has a whole line of "banned and burned books" that are all a fixed price, covered in newspaper pages, so you get a random one. Really cool stuff imo.
As a library director, this video brings me hope. Not book banning (that’s terrifying and actually the hardest part of my job) but your advocacy. I especially appreciate how you spoke about how libraries and librarians were so supportive of you and your interests throughout your life 💕
Two additional suggestions: 1. Ask for and request the library to purchase specific titles that would be targeted by these groups. It gives us quantitative data to show as evidence for continuing to purchase content they object to. 2. Submit feedback to the library praising them for their collection diversity. Often times our leadership outside the library doesn’t realize how important and impactful it is to have a diverse collection that fosters intellectual freedom. Sadly most of the feedback we get is negative so when we can show examples of people expressing satisfaction with the collection, we have a stronger argument.
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Aaaaahh parents rights. "We aren't bigots, we just thing the mere existence of anything we feel uncomfortable with or even possibly guilty is contentious, and we want to control the narrative for our kids."
So what narrative are you trying to control pillow biter?
@@WillieBrownsWeiner the narrative that books and information should be readily available, most likely. You know, like normal non authoritarian people tend to be?
@@kyle9401 I agree. But I find it odd that sooooooo many LGBT books are on that list. It's almost like there's an agenda to inundate schools and young minds with this BS. We both know the answer. Considering it's the parents that pay the bills......
They're in the right to do so. If a group agrees on what they want to teach their children when they fund it, not much can be done. Just because you think everyone should be a part of your group, one group that includes all, doesn't mean they want to. It's freedom of association, even with the caveats.
@@Nunjabuz I'm gonna let you think about the unintended consequences of groups of parents censoring education for their kids and the ramifications it has on all kids before anyone here says anything else.
Excellent, as you said in a previous video that any discussion can be won using a historical fact, the history repeats itself, and more than once. Thanks for this beam of light.
I wrote an article about the bible ban
Edit: banned in a school district in Utah, and my article literally went out this morning
Oh.. can we read it??
(it must be so tempting to say "No!" but seriously.. I'd like to read it lol!)
Holy $h¡†!, That was quick!.
The Bible is 1 of many ✨️ excellent books that well rounded individuals should read. At the very least, it is interesting, and enlightening
@Russell Shepherd
Tbf, fhe Bible has graphic depictions of rape, abuse, death, etc. If people want to ban completely innocent books for going against what they believe (all under the thin guise of claiming that they’re promoting sexuality or violence or hatred), according to their *own rules*, they have to ban the Bible too.
As a former librarian, I agree that this is a hugely important topic. Maybe a decade or so ago, the Banned Books Week t-shirt from the ALA had the Mark Twain quote: “Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.” I thought of this when you demonstrated how arbitrary the decision that one can't give a child a book if you wouldn't read it out loud in public is. I'm delighted I found your channel a couple of days ago and I'm now burning through a bunch of your videos.
I believe it is wrong to police what knowledge people can, and cannot consume, because that is a violation of the authors, freedom of expression, and a persons freedom to be well-informed
When talking about what people consume, I mostly agree, but one person's freedoms end where those of another are trampled.. there are reasons why not all speech is protected.. but in general.. yeah..
Maybe she should be honest and admit this is about parents deciding what books their kids can read, and that many parents deem some books as not appropriate for children of certain ages.
What she is actually arguing for is that GOVERNMENT,not parents have the say. Oh the horrors!
@@aphilippinesadventure9184 the government *shouldn't* "have a say". No one complains about any parent taking their kid to the library and help them pick out books they feel are appropriate for their kids.. These folks are trying to deny other parents and their children the same right to choose they themselves enjoy.
@@aphilippinesadventure9184 so yeah.. "the Horrors" is right. It's like me deciding not to give my kids Benadryl and then trying to make the government tell you your kid can't have Benadryl either.
That is Totalitarianism. Full stop.
@kemist578 I trust my kids too, and that comes from teaching them right from the start.. but a lot of folks apparently don't trust theirs. I would rather parents spent time with their own kids than trying to tell mine what they can and can't do.
As for the importance of being able to pick out your own literature, I'm a CSA survivor. I read books because I wasn't sure what was "normal" vs. "abnormal". Under these book bannings, I wouldn't have had access to such books.
Not everyone has a rosey childhood, and for me those books had value because abusers will tend to tell you what they do to you is "normal" parenting, no matter how abusive and crazy the situation actually is.
Kids should have access to such books.
As a librarian, THANK YOU so much. This is a great breakdown!
Shhhhhh
We love librarians ❤
You do a great service to this nation that is in dire need of staying informed. However, if you don't mind me asking, in what ways have 'the age of distraction' affected people learning at your libraries? Or more particularly, since people now prefer the internet than psychical forms of media in most cases, and so libraries are being called 'redundant' how have you or what have you done to encourage more visitors and volunteers?
Bc I want to help out at local libraries to not only preserve information that is being heavily censored or locked behind pay walls on the internet, but to bring people information they otherwise have not of had access to, and so, I want to know if there's any working strategies you've found that helped you out.
@@eclipsewrecker 😂. Well done
as a queer aspiring author, this shit is terrifying. it’s already hard enough for queer books to get published. now, even if you do get published, the kids you’re writing for might not even be able to access them and you might get harassed and accused of terrible things.
You must really love grooming children.
No one cares
@@BulkBogan1920You do. You commented.
@@ferox965No, @BulkBolgan1920 commented for the lack of care therein. @ferox965 People like you are never clear, you are queer while asking pointless questions. You pointlessly act on terrible ideas.
there is no need for a child to read that kind of book
Nothing makes a kid or a teen want to do something more than saying it's banned 🙃
In 1st grade I spent all my time in the library reading every book on either horses or the civil war/slave trade…there was no in between
ICON
One of the Nazi's first targets was the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, or Institute of Sexology. The first gender reassignment surgery was performed there. Those books are the ones being thrown on the fire in that famous clip.
As a queer archivist and school librarian what scares me beyond some of these angry folks is the chilling effect this will have on publishing. Libraries are the biggest buyers of new books. If they are forced to stop buying LGTBQ+ books or those featuring BIPOC characters, the publishers will stop publishing them because it will become economically unfeasible. This will reinforce the conservative false narratives about this country. These folks are playing the long game and it is frightening.
There is no book bans going on though, school libraries and school curriculums not having a book isn't a book ban or book burning.
@e-w-4174 it's not a ban regardless what they call it. Either you and the media are ignorant, or lying on purpose.
There is no book banning or book burning.
There was this one old story about a WW I German veteran, who lived to rebuild his life after the war as a literature teacher, because he loved to read, and helped other less fortunate people to learn to read and write in the hopes of getting them a job, he lived to see his country ruined and in 1975 he took a trip to France at Verdun were armed with his old service pistol committed suicide, his last will said he wanted to be cremated, as there was no saving our race,
you know what makes me feel "bad" about my "race"? Being unable to escape racism incredibly important books were removed from shelves.
Seeing people who're so insecure they want to erase the realities of our present and past. Seeing people who want to drag us back to those days; *that* makes being white humiliating.
You are dishonest
The argument for that is insane to me - i’m white, grew up in the south learning propaganda about how the confederacy was noble and just and not fighting for slavery’s continuance - THAT is indoctrination. Thank god once I got to high school I had a history teacher who actually taught the truth instead of the lies I’d been fed my whole life. I have never felt guilt over the actions of past white people because obviously I have no control over the past, but I DO feel guilty on behalf of the bigoted white people advocating for the sort of propaganda that tried to brainwash me as a child and is now trying to do the same to more kids.
I felt bad learning about slavery, because slavery is bad and I have empathy. Kids don’t need to be protected from the hard truths of our past, and teaching them lies to perpetuate a culture of ignorance and refusal to learn is the most significant stain on my personal life which makes me dislike this country and the people of my race who fight to keep it in the hands of fascists.
You’re giving the public the history lessons they should have gotten in school. Thank you for the work you put into these videos, keep ‘em coming!!
Your videos are the EXACT REASON why history MUST be taught EXTENSIVELY
Governmetn book bans are literally the first sign of facism. (Private companies voluntarily not selling books they think would cause them a bad reputation? Not so much. If anything, it's a sign of a working democracy)
Ron DeFascist!
One key factor that most of people forget while demanding book bans, is they forget they are in a Public school systems just like public library system, it belongs to the Public (all the public), if you don’t like this then send your child to private schools or home school. Even then you can’t hide everything from your kids, that’s life
School libraries are not available to the entire public lol what
@@cajunking5987 Thank you for giving an excellent example on why promoting reading comprehension instead of banning books should be a priority on education
@@elciervoparaguayo3756 tell me where I failed
@@cajunking5987 Where to begin...
1- *Public schools are allowed for all of the public* , anyone can send their children there, just because obviously a random adult will not be allowed in there doesn't mean it isn't accessible for everyone *in the function it is supposed to preform* . Just like a private school would not allow a random adult in there just because they paid money, or a public hospital would not let you get into random rooms just because you feel like it
2- This person is not arguing that you can go into school libraries as if they are public libraries, but that they are managed by public forces (those being the local government usually) so it does not belong to you personally. There's a reason why public schools should not ban books, and it's the same reason why religious and cultural discrimination are illegal, because different kinds of people hold different views and you can't prohibit everyone from having access to information because it doesn't align with your narrow view of the world.
@@elciervoparaguayo3756 1. Public schools are allowed for all of the children 💀
As someone who is becoming a teacher in Iowa, I am absolutely terrified of the future of schools. Especially when it comes to banned books. For people who claim we 'groom' children, we certainly don't go around crying about how religion in the classroom are 'grooming' our children. It's insane in the US now.
Leeja’s channel has BLOWN UP these last few weeks, and you truly do love to see it. Each new video I see the subscriber count has risen another ridiculous amount, and well deserved!
Dr. Suess wasn't banned. It was voluntarily pulled by the publisher. Both scenarios certainly result in a book no longer being on the shelf, but only one of the scenarios is furthering the trend toward fascism.
The second scenario also helps, although not as directly as the first scenario and of course depends on circumstances, but it does help. Publishers might be pulling books out of printing due to political reasons or political pressures outside their power. For example a conservative person could buy a publisher and stop the publishing of books about whatever thing they dont like. Thats... valid in the most general sense but it is a trend that not only might aligned with the political moment but can even start them.
It is not as black and white as you make it look.
I think pulling the Dr. Suess is a bad idea, annotated edition already exists and I think thats the way to go.
@@lobachevscki > Publishers might be pulling books out of printing due to political reasons or political pressures
Everything is "political" if you're using the word to refer to a set of beliefs about how the country should run.
The difference isn't the fact that its political, the difference whether the government forcing books to be pulled (a well-document fascist tendency) or a private entity choosing to pull the books for whatever reason they come up with (PR stunt, owner's personal beliefs, whatever).
Government regulation and enforcement is the important distinction.
@@altrag Everything is political is true but completely useless in this discussion. It is basically a strawman and you are missing the point in a way most people do and I consider dangerous.
You said only one scenario is furthering the trend toward fascism. I said both scenarios do with the difference that the second one (the one regarding only the publisher) requires more nuance to actually arrive a conclusion.
You wouldnt say Facebook doesnt have anything to do with the current state of affairs of US democracy, do you? They are a private entity acting on their behalf, in many ways literally suppressing or amplifying information like a book publisher would. If I read your answer literally then there is no way I could criticize and even hold Facebook responsible for damaging democracy in some way or another.
Of course there is an issue of scale when it comes to Facebook but the comparison stands.
Government regulation and enforcement is AN important distinction and probably the most important one. Not the only one tho.
You didnt address any of my points and what i said remains valid. It is not hard to see.
@@lobachevscki > requires more nuance to actually arrive a conclusion
Only if you've already got the conclusion you want and you're trying to find justifications to arrive at it.
> You wouldnt say Facebook doesnt have anything to do with the current state of affairs of US democracy, do you?
Not in the way we're talking about. Of course they influence the current state of affairs, but they can't _FORCE_ the state of affairs.
If FB goes too far off brand, people can choose to stop using them. You can't choose to not be ruled by your jurisdiction's government.
If FB goes to far and the people still don't abandon them, the government itself can (and did) step in and take legislative action to redirect FB's operation to something more in line with society's current ideals. There is no higher power overseeing the government if they get out of line. The US does a little better than most as they've been explicitly setup to have different branches of government overseeing each other, but as we're currently witnessing with SCOTUS, that's not infallible.
Government holds a special place in society as the ultimate arbiter of what's allowed and what's not allowed. No private company, regardless of how economically or socially powerful they are, has that capability.
With one exception: Private military companies. Those absolutely can get large enough challenge the government because fundamentally the reason the government holds its special position is that it maintains a monopoly on violence - that is, they control the military and the police. A large enough private military company can that monopoly (as Putin recently found out).
There are only really two outcomes when such a challenge occurs: a) They lose and little changes, or b) they win and the government collapses. But then they just become the new de facto government and we're back in fundamentally the same position (usually with a few extra human rights abuses thrown in for fun).
@@altrag
FB can totally force things and they have and got away with it. Corporations do that all the time.
You are just willfully ignorant and Im not here to help you with that.
Freedom is an oxymoron in the Republican Party.
Right wingers are anti-freedom.
The comment section is a sad picture of what spiritual warfare looks like. This shows me and a few other people with common sense how damage Satan is willing to inflict on the lost souls.
People with common sense don't believe in Satan and related fairy-tales.
@@karlmarx828 People with common sense don't believe in fairytales like communism
People with common sense realize that It’s Perfectly Normal is not perfectly normal.
@@karlmarx828 People with common sense aren't commies
@@karlmarx828you believe in racial equality with no evidence but refuse to honor the God of your ancestors.
I'm lucky to have only one memory where restricting access to books affected me. It was during the pandemic and when we were all on zoom for school. It was my freshman year. For English, we were reading a book called "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close", published in 2005. It's about a boy whose dad died during the 9/11 attacks, and he finds a mystery about his dad that could give him closure. But alongside his story, are also stories of his grandfather, who he does not know. There are some scenes in the book which allude to nudity during the grandfather's storyline, so that's probably why the school stepped in and had us stop reading the book right in the middle. I was really frustrated at the time because even then, I knew that this kind of censoring was unwarranted and should not have gone through, but it did. I even considered reading the rest of the book on my own, but ultimately, didn't, since I had other work to do. But I am still appalled by this wave of book bans. Banning and censoring media is not right, and I wish these people would see that.
It’s crazy that conservatives don’t want their kids to know America isn’t perfect while at the same time they chant make America great again.
They yell "Think of the children!" but they couldn't care less about them in reality, otherwise they'd be for stopping gun violence - and they're not!
Or feeding them. Or housing them. Or not marrying them so they can fuck them. Or trafficking them and buying them with Venmo. Or holding child beauty pageants.
All things conservatives literally fight and rant about
they'd also be for banning weed right:)
Yes. It is heartbreaking, angering, and seriously worrying that this is happening today.
Yes, terrible there is an age-appropriate limit for pornography when there are so many groomers looking for victims.
@@imperialmotoring3789imagine STILL being misled by such blatantly half-assed rhetoric even after all the evidence as proof against it.
Real groomers are those who are pedo-jacketing LGBT people.
@@imperialmotoring3789"Age Appropriate"
Says a monster who undresses and beats their children as punishment for watching porn...
This is what you call "protecting the littles".
You're a monster.
My Teacher told us these words.
If you don't learn the truth about history. History will repeat itself.
Now I know he was trying to say it his own way. But I have seen it happen over and over again.
@@JamesSmith-1036 1619 Project is not history, it is propaganda.
Nazis are National Socialists nd the Democrats were the slaveholders. . That is real history.
"But what about that one time that Dr Seuss stopped printing that one book! Both sides both sides🦜squawk both sides" 😒
edit- I thought the RATM lyrics From Bulls on Parade were relevant:
What we don't know keeps the contracts alive and movin'
They don't gotta burn the books they just remove 'em
While arms warehouses fill as quick as the cells
Rally 'round the family, pockets full of shells
You are very good at deflating moral hot air.
I love leftist channels like this….the right is too loud….we need to be loud too
History is repeating itself!
I'm from Germany and I can't believe this is a thing in the US.
Nobody likes them here. It is one of the reason that the US right wing has had so many disastrous failures in various elections over the past starting in 2018. Realistically, most of the people who supported these policies in the past are now dead.
No books should be banned 🚫, EVER, FOR ANY REASON!. There, I've said it.
The issue is removing them from public school libraries, so the intro is misleading
I hope I'm misreading, but are you really splitting hairs on "books being removed from public schools" and "books being banned"?
Books being removed from public schools means... books being BANNED from public schools. You know, the places where people READ FUCKING BOOKS YOU TWAT. The only place besides the library and bookstores.
@@vicw9223 it’s not misleading at all, many kids don’t have access to books at home. They also don’t have an income or the right to freedom of movement, so banning something from schools absolutely affects them.
It's fine to burn The Art of the Deal, makes good fuel for BBQ.
@@vicw9223 How about we ban conservatism? That's something I'd support. Why Iet a pIague continue to poIIute society?
It's almost like putting incompetent and out of touch people in charge of the government leads to bad results
Yep
They're banning corn in school libraries dude thats it
@@mikemanners118 mad
Didn’t the Dr Seuss estate remove the books as a result of him wanting to make amends for a racist past while still alive coupled with the idea that they didn’t sell?
Yeah - it wasn't a ban. It was purely internal.
In case it doesn't get mentioned, it's worth remembering that Nazi race laws were particularly based on the US laws.. That Labensraum was a German Manifest Destiny. And that a whole lot of the Nazi leadership loved "cowboy and Indian" YA novels.
This is mainly a comment for the algorithm.
Specifically christian humanist and anti-racist novels. Hitler loved them.
I'm glad people are talking about these banned books, because now I have something to read. Of course I've read some of these banned books in high school and college, and they were pretty good.
The best thing I heard from my mom “You’re not reading a kid, you’re reading the adult that kid will become. And these poor kids of these idiotic parents are doomed to be so emotionally stunted and mad at their parents as they get older
You brilliantly summarized the research I have been trying to piece together for my kids. Book banning is a red alert moment for society. 1000% Agee, for the love of GOD and yes our children VOTE!
I got called in for recrimation because I used the word "penis" during a lesson on cybersecurity and why to not send nudes. I don't know which parent was so upset by this stupid "offense". Ridiculous... (no pun intended)
Probably have a lack of... Happiness.
I'll see myself out
How about we not ban all these books, but to ensure all literature is parent approved require each parent, or guardian, to read and report on every book their child is to read in their classes and submit individual personalized bans. Let their kids who's parents determined it was inappropriate go have recess or something while everyone else learns. Most parents likely wouldn't have the time to do that so most would go unchallenged. Besides a few parents might also learn something in the process.
For the record, I would absolutely read your puberty book out loud before I read meatball Ron's version of black history. Not even a close call.
Yes. A beautiful examination of the hateful stupidity we're living through.
The U.S. is charging headlong to a very dark place - you are totally right to try to get out at this point.
I'm honestly curious when you believe this charge started? Was there ever a time when the US was moving in a better direction?
Its a conservative wet dream to support an authoritarian government that only benefits them
Being British, I am finding your content really helpful in gaining insight into the issues currently plaguing the US. Our own government looks to US Right Wing politics as some sort of iconic touch-stone for intolerance. What happens in the US is often repackaged here for the UK electorate. Fascism has recreated itself with business suits and God. I despair.
Stop acting like y'all are better than us please. You colonized the entire globe. You just did a better job of saving face afterwards. It's fucking annoying. And it's the wording in your post. You and every other European act like we created this shit. Y'all existed first. y'all did it all first. We have not been setting trends for that long. It's been less than a hundred years since we became a trend setting nation. Look in the mirror before you talk about Americans. (And by European, I mainly mean the British and french. You never shut up about us. Fix your own problems. You don't have to look at ours to understand your own because you all invented everything we've done here. Again, all you have to do is look at your own reflections to see it.)
You should keep in mind that these videos are from only one point of view and it is heavily biased. One should always seek to understand all arguments before making any judgements. I'm not saying that she's wrong, just that she is representing a specific viewpoint and should be taken as such.
@@alistairgrey5089 I am not sure what I am missing in appreciating the 'other argument' when presented with a Republican Party that so far has banned abortion and, certainly in Florida, is actively banning books in school libraries. That smells of fascism to me. Here in the UK my own government has past laws banning peaceful demonstrations. That also smells of fascism. But perhaps if I appreciated the other sides point of view, I might understand that banning abortion is 'valuing life', that banning books is 'protecting the fragile minds of children, and that banning peaceful demonstrations is 'protecting the public from disruption'. You may find it important Alistair not to assume that another individual lacks political acumen and has a naive understanding of the world of politics. I'm sixty-six. Not sixteen.
Here in Florida we’re turning into the next nazi germany it’s pretty scary man.
@@alistairgrey5089 you're assuming we haven't used Google and know exactly which books have been banned. There's no another viewpoint on facts, mate.
During my time student teaching, my cooperating teacher had a parent object to "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" because from the parent's perspective it promoted stealing. The school was having a spirit week around Christmas time and that was the theme for one of the days. I'm all for being respectful, but that really got me. My cooperating teacher specifically talked about why stealing wasn't something you should do. The way the law in Florida is written you could get in serious trouble for something like that. If one parent objects to that book are you gonna have to pull it? I mean come on!
Maybe we should take advantage of the Streisand effect: publish EVERY attempt to ban certain books, and who backed it. It will expose the bigots, as well as make certain kids want to read it more.
This is so scary. Especially when i think about the time in 2019 when a priest in Poland organised a book burning. They burned a lot of books form the Harry Potter and the Twilight series. It's beyond crazy that shit like this happens in 21st century
The Twilight series deserved it because it's shit.
Leeja you are a fresh face and great lessons to learn when avoiding the slippery slope to totalitarianism and censorship
Tour of a conservative library.
Fiction: The Turner Diaries
Nonfiction: The Bible
This concludes our tour.
When I was looking for The Turner Diaries I stumbled upon two other terrible far right fiction books: The Camp of The Saints and Victoria. Both contain the same problems of books like Atlas Shrugged: self righteous long author tracts, cardboard characters speaking the same way and ridiculously weak yet powerful opponents.
I recommend the user Coiler's dissection of Victoria on Space Battles.
@@marcello7781 Thanks
You forgot about Mein Kampf.
@@wiselioness322 Too foreign.
I think that the universities around the country should announce they wont be accepting educational degrees from Florida schools. Buisness leaders could jion them and not accept these as filling educational requirements in the company's hiring process. 🤯
Dr. Seuss Enterprise removed a few books with racist tropes, and not at the behest or enforcement of government.
Just a little difference missed here.
Great video