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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, there is an *actual* secretive, yet vast, established, organized, well-funded Christian far right conspiracy to censor and ban books, legislate against LGBTQ and other repressive actions:

https://newrepublic.com/article/167002/council-national-policy-documents-right-wing-conspiracy

They are driving legislative changes in dozens of red states.[/quote]

Well stop handing them wins by defending all sexual content in schools.   You’re making enemies out of potential friends.  [/quote]

I haven't defended it but I do think it needs a much closer look and to be put in proper context.  For example, was it a single book in a single library?  Was it a book that's appropriate for high school but inappropriate for k-5 but wasn't actually ever found in any k-5 schools?  Those things actually do matter.  But instead we're being given a lot of hyperbolic generalities with only a tiny handful of examples, all of which are completely lacking any relevant context.[/quote]
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And then the fascists and their defenders ignore the fact that most of the books stripped from elementary classrooms have been completely non-sexual. No one is knee jerk defending “all sexual content in schools.” That’s a strawman. [/quote]

When they don't have coherent or nuanced discussion points they resort to strawmen.

Also, in terms of non-sexual we see things like books about non-white athletes being questioned and scrutinized, along with forcing censorship of any discussion of race, such as the reason Rosa Parks was being told to move in the bus.  Apparently such bits of history are "woke CRT" or something and therefore are forbidden to be discussed.

No, I don't want k-5 kids exposed to graphic sex, and I doubt that apart from trolls and pedophiles, nobody would ever try and defend that.  But by the same token, I think the far right is going completely overboard, is being grotesquely dishonest, and we need to push back on this.

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