Madison County Public Library administrators were asked to go over a list of potentially “sexually explicit” books to be moved from the children’s and young adult section to the adult section. The majority of these books were about the LGBTQ community. At least one was added to the list because the author’s last name is Gay.
First of all, this isn’t generalizing. The article above is about an author’s book being banned because his NAME is “Gay.” Teachers have gotten in trouble with parents because they had rainbows in the classroom. Books are being targeted merely for the tiniest bits of LGBTQ content.
Secondly, now you’re saying that anyone who is non-binary shouldn’t be teaching kids? For what reason? Does the fact that they use they/them pronouns make them unsuitable to be teachers for some reason?
Activists shouldn’t bring their activism into gradeschool classrooms was my point.
So Christian activists shouldn’t push their anti-LGBTQ beliefs into grade school classrooms? Or does this only apply to LGBTQ people being unable to speak their minds?
Also, how do you define “activist?” If a grade school teacher happens to be lesbian, should she be able to mention her wife in the same manner that an equivalent straight teacher would be able to mention her husband? (For example, “my wife/husband and I went on vacation.”) Does mentioning that she is married to a woman make her an activist? Does a non-binary teacher asking to be referred to as “they/them” automatically become an activist for doing so?
I’m not going to entertain your “DEFINE EXACTLY WHAT THE PHENOMENA YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT OR IT DOESNT EXIST” bullshit. There’s a lot of nuance to this topic and its hard to draw concrete lines anywhere, but I would say teachers should focus on the curriculum and not their personal life. I don’t think explicitly anti-lgbt indoctrination belongs in classrooms either. I want teachers to avoid discussions about sensitive social issues altogether, it is not their role.
Stop trying to make it a both sides issue when in fact, the fascists are the only ones trying to fuck over kids.
You have yet to provide a single example of the thing you’re claiming “also happens” despite nobody having ever heard of this happening. We have clear examples of the anti-LGBTQ bullshittery from the OP article, where are yours?
I don’t have to prove shit to you, I’m just voicing my opinion. You are welcome to call it stupid. Keep moving. Whenever I have posted evidence of sexually explicit activity in front of children it gets downplayed and I’m called a prude. I don’t really care to reason with you to be perfectly honest. Like most things in life, the truth is somewhere in the middle. Maybe it’s skewed to one side sometimes, but it seems people are so afraid to self criticize out of fear of giving the other side ammo.
Except the ones who want to ban books for you.
its not activists within the school requesting that, it’s parents of kids.
It’s groups like Moms for Liberty, an outside group that quotes Hitler in their newsletter.
It’s really not.
Case in point: Report finds few parents are utilizing new Georgia law making it easier to ban books from school libraries
When the law says only parents of current students can challenge books at a school library, almost nobody challenged them. Weird huh.