Banned: Books on race and sexuality are disappearing from Texas schools in record numbers (NBC "news")

NBC News (cough) ^ | 2/1/22 | Mike Hixenbaugh

[MAGA2017]

Exposing children to this filth is child abuse. Good for Texas.

[toddausauras]

Kids don’t read books

[Da Coyote]

Heh, only media approved books are allowed. Yup, the media - you know, the folks who couldn’t pass any REAL courses in college.

[lurk]

Kids’ minds are the prize being sought by the left.

[DesertRhino]

Good.too bad tbe librarian wasn’t arrested.

[Sparticus]

Sounds like they are merely removing sexually explicit content which is appropriate.

[Carriage Hill]

We kids used to read Playboy for the articles...

[Jim from C-Town]

Being homosexual or having some same sex attraction is not a sin. Acting on those desires & engaging in homosexual activity is a sin.

[twyn1]

Likely a made-up story ... trying to shame “Christians and conservatives. If this girl has a cell-phone, then she has access to whatever she wants to read, see, etc..

[Sans-Culotte]

Gone: “Jack of Hearts (and Other Parts),” a book she’d read last year about a gay teenager who isn’t shy about discussing his adventurous sex life. Also banished: “The Handsome Girl and Her Beautiful Boy,” “All Boys Aren’t Blue” and “Lawn Boy” — all coming-of-age stories that prominently feature LGBTQ characters and passages about sex.

[married21]

What will these books be replaced with? How about books about how to do things like manage money, cook, fix things, take care of pets, etc. knowing how to do something builds confidence in ways that have nothing to do with sex.

[AppyPappy]

We got some pretty heavy backlash from Muslim and foreign parents who see these books as American corruption of their kids.

[dfwgator]

"With a melon?"

[Raycpa]

Does this quote actually sound like it came from a teenager?

“As I’ve struggled with my own identity as a queer person, it’s been really, really important to me that I have access to these books,” said the girl, whom NBC News is not naming to avoid revealing her sexuality. “And I’m sure it’s really important to other queer kids. You should be able to see yourself reflected on the page.”

“my own identity as a queer person”?

“access to these books”?

“see yourself reflected on the page”?

[dfwgator]

Sometimes Muslims are useful, hate to say, but there it is. Indians as well, and we gotta a lot of ‘em where I live.

[NohSpinZone]

Boo hoo hoo. These kids are all on porno sites anyway. Cry me a river.

[Do_Tar]

I’m posting this on social media...
I sure hope no one finds out my secret...

[LibertyWoman]

This has to be an organized media blitz regarding banning books in public schools. Notice the language? BANNING! We have a St Louis school district also removing a couple of perverted books from their libraries but according to the local news last night (and today!) they are literary works being banned!. Of course they don't mention that the depraved works are still available at the local public library or Amazon. Of course there's a leftist book store owner stepping up to the plate by god. She's offering the banned literary works in her store. And the public response has just been overwhelmingly supportive! They even interviewed a Nancy Pelosi type denouncing the ban and she's buying several copies because...

So sick of the depraved reprobates (is that redundant?) stirring up trouble.

[Boogieman]

Well, Jesus said lusting after someone in your heart is the same as committing adultery. Seems like that holds true for homosexual lusts as well as heterosexual ones. I don’t see how anyone can say they are homosexual and not lustful, since that’s the only defining characteristic.

[4Liberty]

If people (of any age) could stop talking about their PeePee’s and focus on studying some math, literature, science & history for a few hours a day that would be nice - thank you.