The Patriot Post® · 'Book Banning' Debunked
Last week was “Banned Book Week,” and the Left was milking it for all it was worth. With the collusion of the American Library Association (ALA) — which is headed up by a self-proclaimed lesbian Marxist — this week was named “Let Freedom Read.” The ALA even has merchandise available, including this bookmark listing the top 13 books that were challenged in 2022. All had sexually explicit content.
The absolutely correct call by parents to have these books removed from libraries and schools is not a “book ban.” It is clear and obvious that the ideas and content in these books are not appropriate for children. One only has to read the books out loud. It is hardly surprising though that the leftists that run the ALA are pushing for these books to be widely available to children. The ALA president herself has posted on her X (Twitter) feed her support for exposing children to sexual material.
Marxists don’t believe in the innocence of children or that it’s worth protecting. They believe that children are adults without the mileage.
Like the ALA president, those who advocate for this “freedom” for kids to read about sexually explicit acts and depictions don’t actually care about kids or freedom. In fact, exposing children to this kind of material at ever more youthful ages is condemning them to a kind of slavery of the mind. It teaches them that the only thing of value about themselves is what they have to offer sexually. This is not a worthy message to implant in an elementary schooler’s, middle schooler’s, or even high schooler’s mind.
What exactly constitutes a ban according to these leftists? Well, those standards have been set by a left-wing advocacy group called PEN America. Its definition is so broad that the term “ban” becomes meaningless. According to The Daily Signal: “If a book has been temporarily removed, reviewed, and then returned to the shelves, it has been banned, according to PEN. If a school places a parental permission requirement on a book, it has been banned, according to PEN. If a school moves a book to a guidance counselor’s office, it has been banned, according to PEN.”
In other words, it has taken a term like “book ban” and made it mean absolutely nothing just so it can use it as a weapon to force parents to allow their children to read inappropriate books.
To call what concerned parents are doing — calling for the removal of inappropriate and sexually explicit books from their children’s schools and libraries — a “book ban” and “censorship” is ridiculous. It’s especially laughable when one considers that it is the Left that is the party deeply in favor of censorship and believes that we as the American people have “too much freedom.”
Leftists are the party that happily wield cancel culture with indiscriminate aplomb and use social media as their own personal censorship platform.
They don’t care about consistency, only power. That includes the power to corrupt children while simultaneously demonizing their parents.