I'm a parent down here in Texas fighting blowhard book banning parent groups. First, this "take" is nonsense. Pornography is "I know it when I see it" - so sho

I'm a parent down here in Texas fighting blowhard book banning parent groups. First, this "take" is nonsense. Pornography is "I know it when I see it" - so show me the goods, you can't just declare Nabokov's Lolita "obscene" prima facie - and second, TEA (Texas Education Association) already has a policy regarding declaring books "inappropriate" for school libraries. https://tea.texas.gov/sites/default/files/efb-local-library-materials.pdf https://tea.texas.gov/sites/default/files/efb-local-library-... They are not making this a huge issue (good enough for the NYT) because some bulk book buying system incidentally brought in a book that falls afoul of this policy. The policy worked! The out of policy books were identified and removed. This is 100% about controlling others and their beliefs on race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender identity, and (based on my own experiences thus far) religion and political affiliation as well. These people are hypocrites, pure Wilhoit conservatives (an in group that the law protects but does not bind), they're anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers (don't tell me how to parent!) who think their little snowflake will turn gay or racially sensitive or (God forbid) openminded through ... memoir osmosis? ... and so want to ban those books in a library so no one else's kids can read them either (let me tell everyone else how to parent) Nobody is forcing anyone to read every book in the library. The great thing about libraries is they contain both mirrored and windowed media, and it's up to you the reader to choose the books you want to read and decide for yourself if those ideas are any good or not.