Joe Biden recently hosted a Pride month event for families with LGBT kids on the White House South Lawn. 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.
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.
Even better, he can do it on TV. After all, “(b)ook 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.”
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. It is, after all, on PEN America’s Index of School Book Bans.
The School Library Journal praises “Lawn Boy” as an exploration of “race, sexual identity, and the crushing weight of American capitalism.” (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. They aren’t “banned,” schools just refuse to carry them.)
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. … ‘I was ten years old, but it’s true. I put Doug Goble’s d–k in my mouth …” and so on. This is a vital resource for kids, says the administration.
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. Dr. 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.”
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 “non-binary,” “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.”
I’m certainly not arguing that every book removed from libraries is porn or badly written or useless. Perhaps “Push” tells the story of an abused girl using appropriately realistic and horrifying words. Even so, the topic of brutal sexual violence isn’t morally or educationally tantamount to a math lesson. It’s up to parents, not teachers nor Joe Biden, to decide when, how or if their kids read about it.
PEN America’s Index of School Book Bans claims there are nearly 1,500 “instances of book banning in schools, affecting 874 different titles in the first half of this school year.” The preponderance of the books on the list feature sexually explicit scenes — and many have minority and gay characters, because regrettably, so-called progressives have decided to teach kids that their immutable physical characteristics or sexuality or “gender expression” define them, rather than their achievements and deeds.
One of the ideas behind public schools was that they would break down ethnic and class barriers and build shared patriotic virtues and civic understanding. Instead, they are often used to trap kids and then indoctrinate them with leftist culture attitudes. That’s what Biden means when he says your kids are also his kids.
And if parents get involved, they’re accused of standing against “democracy.” Because in contemporary left-wing vernacular, “democracy” has been stripped of any useful meaning. Sometimes democracy means majoritarianism denying individuals their rights for the common good, sometimes it means courts unilaterally dictating policy, and sometimes it means parents having zero say in what their children read or learn.
Of course, we shouldn’t forget that “banned books” are a partisan myth. These days, a “book ban” is a euphemism for curating a library in a way that upsets left-wing activists. Not one book on PEN’s list is even difficult to obtain, much less banned. Parents don’t even need to leave their homes to buy any of these books. They can order any of the titles in mere minutes and have them delivered to their front door in days. There are no “banned books.” There are just cultural imperialists, ideologues and cowardly politicians trying to force their ideas on all children.
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David Harsanyi is a senior editor at The Federalist. Harsanyi is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of five books – the most recent, “Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent.” His work has appeared in National Review, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Reason, New York Post and numerous other publications. Follow him on Twitter @davidharsanyi.
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He can’t comprehend what he reads himself—particularly the Constitution.
Liberals CARE NOT what the constitution says. Never have.
Biden would happily read such perverted filth to little children. But only if those little children wore swimsuits while wiggling on his lap and playing with the hair on his legs.
Looks like “Dick and Jane” Books are about to be banned,,,,,DIck IN Jane books are designed to replace them. Both sound innocent when the words come from the mouths of sick twisted heads like Joe Biden, the self- professed lover of the Naked truth,,,,which when actually exposed too late for your kids, leaves the jaw dropping to the ground, and your innocent kids covered in corruption. Only sound vines can produce clean fruit. Just look what Joe has produced in the daughter who he showered not with affection, but the showing water baptism of his twisted version of the naked truth, then go on to Hunter and it becomes clear that Joe should never be given the power to select what the innocent minds of our American youth should be exposed to when the masks come off and what you see beneath the disguises only horrifies the senses that your rational thinking mind could be so deceived into believing he was anything but the self-smeared twisted ditto copy of the clean design his Creator made in the original making of his birth.
Tinkerbell Barack Obama and his butt buddy Joe Biden have been approving, encouraging and supporting this LGBTQ perversion since Tinkerbell Barack Obama was president, now today Tinkerbell Barack Obama is still the corrupt, puppet Joe Biden’s master and puppeteer.
Thursday, March 12, 2015. Michael F. Haverluck (OneNewsNow.com)
“Joe Biden went on to assure the pro-LGBTQ crowd that even though the Obama administration cannot enforce a thought police, people who stand for their religious convictions are in the process of being wiped out — as the White House’s homosexual agenda continues to proliferate across the nation. Ben Carson and others who ascribe to the biblical view of homosexuality should be eradicated from the planet in the name of “equality” and “tolerance.” “
The LGBTQ Con and deception is just to want “equality, acceptance and tolerance.”
These LGBTQ’s are the open practitioners of the infamous crime against GOD and nature,
Who sold their souls to the malicious, venomous bullies of Organized LGBTQ mafia.
These Sodomites, will not tolerate and will attack and attempt to destroy anyone and anything not accepting and promoting their degenerate, sexually perverted lifestyle.
I agree, wholeheartedly, with the author. Not only should Sleepy Joe read these books to children on TV, but I think he should call a press conference, that way every network feels compelled to cover it. After all, he did say that America’s children are all our kids.
I remember something Rush Limbaugh said, years ago. Basically he said that individual people are more conservative than they realize. He also said that people in groups will do things they’d never do as individuals, i.e. condoms in schools.
How long do you think it’d be before the vast majority of the American people would want sleazy Joe run out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue on a rail?
Televize it live, WITH NO censoring.
I think “Dr. Jill” should sit in the oval office with children of liberal politicians and her grandchildren reading these books out loud to them. The parents and grandparents of these children should be in the audience – also any leftist politician that thinks these books are okay. This should be filmed showing these people’s reaction. Let the public view this even if it has to be “bleeped” every other word.
For the most part these politicians don’t have any idea what is in these books! They just know they are about LGBTQ+ – so they must be okay – right?! I imagine most of them would have red faces and raised blood pressure if they had to sit through the readings of these books.
Some are depraved enough though, they would DELIGHT in reading this perversions to children.