Posted on 03/04/2019 7:57:42 AM PST by simpson96
Weeks before announcing her run for president, Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.) released a picture book called “Superheroes Are Everywhere.” The book is a simplified version of her life story that focuses on the “superheroes” who inspired her: her mother, her best friends, her first-grade teacher, Thurgood Marshall and others. In November, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) released “Bold & Brave,” which celebrates, in a less personal way, the women who paved the way for her political career, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Ida B. Wells.(snip)
Gillibrand’s book is an odd hybrid: In size and color, it’s perfect for preschool; in content, it’s more suitable for middle or even high school. The book has a lot of words — on some pages there are more than 200 of them, including “inauguration,” “unconquerable” and “reproductive rights.”(snip)
Sure, learning new vocabulary is valuable — as are the lessons on civil and women’s rights — but how many kids in the recommended 6-to-9-year-old age group would sit through such turgid (and freighted) — descriptions? “In 1972,” Gillilbrand writes in the lengthy appendix, “Congress finally passed the Equal Rights Amendment, written by Alice Paul in 1923 and revised in 1943, to end gender discrimination under the law, but it has not been ratified by the states.”(snip)
Kamala Harris’s “Superheroes Are Everywhere” has the opposite problem: The words are too simple and the art is flat. Aimed at readers ages 3 to 7, the book reads like a thinly veiled campaign brochure crossed with a course on character building. Published on the same day as her adult memoir “The Truths We Hold,” the book is a mash-up of politics and self-help. The endpages feature a scrapbook of photos from Harris’ childhood, including a baby photo captioned, “This is me, contemplating the future.”
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How many kids will read these books? How many liberal moms, who want to prove they are liberal, will buy these books for their daughters?
They were written for AOC?
Gillibrand’s book cover looks like a scene from “Birth of a Nation.”
Virtue signaling, by writing books allegedly to teach children, really young girls, about girl power and all of that?
Were they written to be “dumbed down” so that even simple minded liberal adults will be able to underatand????
Those books are not for anyone. The books are a way to funnel money to the candidates.
Gillibrand’s publisher is Penguin Random House. Owned by....Bertelsmann and Pearson.
Harris’s book is published by the same bunch.
Three Nationality Harris is not naturally an American.
The cover art is atrocious. It looks like it was drawn by a 5th grader.
From 2008....
Books, especially children’s books, are a way to funnel money to politicians. The books don’t sell. But companies buy a bunch and give them away. And this has the added effect of giving the author the resume enhancing title of author. Which many people associate with being smart. You can think of it as a money laundry. Money goes to the campaign. The campaign or rich donors buy thousands of books. The author gets paid.
Obama’s first book was never sold until he ran for Senator. Then his campaign and the democrat party bought lots of them and gave them to people at events. Eventually, democrats would buy some of them. But they weren’t good books and they weren’t completely historical. However, the Obama’s became millionaires while in office.
If Marsha Blackburn or Martha McSally wrote a children's book, the sales to libraries and schools would be a very very small fraction of the same, though the exact number of actual kids (0) would be interested in reading them.
Bill Clinton's $30 million German paymaster
Spygate didn't occur in a vacuum.
Companies don’t buy them. Taxpayers do. Check out how many your local library systems and schools purchase.
The involvement of Bertelsmann means the Euroweenies are still at it.
When I was in 4th grade I found a book on the shelf in the classroom that showed children in the future having to wear gas masks to go outside because of pollution. The idea did it’s job and caused me anxiety about our potential future, but even at that young age, I also recognized it for what it was. Scaremongering that is probably false, but still, who could be for pollution anyway?
I think most children recognize when things seem to have an agenda. They don’t necessarily reject it outright, but that doesn’t mean they just buy right into it.
Just look at how kids talk to each other, and how much BS they have to wade through. I know it would be nice if there was some balance, but I don’t think there’s anything wrong with this stuff. Some kids rebel against indoctrination when they get out of the system just like catholic school girls use to rebel against pushed morals when they got out of school. People are not robots. They inevitably find the other side
First and foremost, find yourself an older politically-powerful horndog, bang his brains out, and get him to appoint you to cushy well-renumerated do-nothing public jobs.
Yes it does. I immediately thought I seeing the KKK. Had to look twice.
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