![]() It’s up to parents, not teachers nor Joe Biden, to decide when, how, or if their kids read about it. Even so, the topic of brutal sexual violence isn’t morally or educationally tantamount to a math lesson. Perhaps “Push” tells the story of an abused girl using appropriately realistic and horrifying words. ![]() I’m certainly not arguing that every book removed from libraries is porn or badly written or useless. Some “banned books,” like “It Feels Good To Be Yourself,” are meant to normalize trendy pseudoscientific jargon and ideas among kindergarteners and first graders, filling their heads with words like “nonbinary,” “gender fluid,” and “gender expansive.” Others contain vulgar, graphic sexual scenes of incest and child rape, such as those featured in Sapphire’s “banned” novel “Push.” Jill-mom, educator-owes it to democracy to read the words: “I got off once while driving just by rubbing the front of my jeans and imagining getting a b- j-b.” ![]() Though, it doesn’t have to be “Lawn Boy.” It could be the graphic novel “Gender Queer,” banned by the Cherry Creek School District in Colorado, according to PEN. This is a vital resource for kids, says the administration. I put Doug Goble’s d–k in my mouth,” and so on. Or, better yet, First Lady Jill Biden-who, you may not have heard, earned a doctorate in education-should recite these words for the kids: “‘What if I told you I touched another guy’s d–k?’ I said. They aren’t “banned ” schools just refuse to carry them.) (Incidentally, do you know how many books celebrating traditional families or the Second Amendment or Western civilization or the wonders of capitalism are stocked in school libraries? Speaking from experience, I’d say maybe a handful-and that’s probably an exaggeration. The School Library Journal praises “Lawn Boy” as an exploration of “race, sexual identity, and the crushing weight of American capitalism.” ![]() (PEN America is an advocacy group that promotes freedom of speech for writers.) It is, after all, on PEN America’s Index of School Book Bans. Perhaps the White House could set up a themed reading circle on the South Lawn where the president can recite selections from “Lawn Boy,” which describes 10-year-old boys performing oral sex on each other. After all, “ book banning erodes our democracy,” says White House Domestic Policy Adviser Neera Tanden, and “removes vital resources for student learning, and can contribute to the stigma and isolation that many communities face.” Now, if that sounds like an unfair description, there’s an easy way for the president to debunk his critics: He can read selected outtakes from some of these “innocuous” books to prepubescent kids like those who showed up to the event.Įven better, he can do it on TV. Ahead of the event, he announced that he’ll appoint a “ banned book” czar whose job it will be to try to compel local communities to stock their libraries with race-obsessed pseudohistories and books depicting oral sex, rape, violence, and gender dysphoria. Joe Biden recently hosted a Pride Month event for families with LGBTQ kids on the White House South Lawn. Editor’s note: The following material contains explicit references and may be offensive to some.
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