Esquire Seems Shocked Over The Top 10 Books Banned In Schools

In the People’s Republik of California and other Democrat states they’ve banned books like “To Kill A Mockingbird”, “Of Mice and Men”, and “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” as being raaacist. Classic books. Books of consequence. But, those are not the ones banned the most

(Esquire) PEN America, which gathers a broader dataset from school districts, school board hearings, and local media outlets, reports that over 10,000 books were removed from public schools (at least temporarily) during the 2023 – 2024 academic year—almost three times as many removals as during the previous school year. About 8,000 of those bans took place in Florida and Iowa alone, where Republican lawmakers have taken shocking measures against school libraries: in Iowa, a new law forbids any material depicting sexual acts from K-12 schools (excluding religious texts), while in Florida, another new law stipulates that any book challenged for “sexual conduct” must be removed from library shelves while administrators review the material.

It’s shocking to remove sexual material from the shelves in schools? Why do Democrats want children, minors, exposed to hardcore sexual material? I cannot remember any book from the school library or as assigned reading having sexual content. I certainly checked out and bought horror books that had some, but, it wasn’t being shoved down my throat by the school. Why can’t liberals just let kids be kids?

In a consequential election year, your right to read is on the ballot. To show you exactly what’s at stake, we’ve compiled a list of the ten most-challenged books of 2023, along with the supposed rationale behind the controversies they’ve sparked. Share these books with the young people in your life, or enjoy them on your own—each one is a moving paean to self-knowledge, inclusivity, and the strength we find in embracing difference, both in ourselves and others. So go ahead and get reading. It’ll make Ted Cruz’s day.

What’s at stake, eh? Here are the top 10

• Gender Queer, by Maia Kobabe
• All Boys Aren’t Blue, by George M. Johnson
• This Book Is Gay, by Juno Dawson
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky
• Flamer, by Mike Curato
• The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
• Tricks, by Ellen Hopkins
• Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, by Jesse Andrews
• Let’s Talk About It, by Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan
• Sold, by Patricia McCormick

Every single one of these is sexually explicit, and all are child pornography. In each case Esquire tries to make a case for them, and it makes it worse, such as

In an interview with Publishers Weekly, Moen said, “Teens are on the internet and they’re coming into contact with all of this and way more. Our philosophy is you can either give them a book that’s been reviewed and approved by multiple professionals in the sex education and health fields, or you can give them a phone and let them figure it out for themselves on PornHub.”

It may be the case that teens are on the Internet, but, should schools, government run institutions of learning, be teaching this stuff to children? Should the teachers be reading this stuff to young children, especially pre-teens, or assigning it as reading? That’s not teaching, that’s grooming. Why is all this necessary? This filth never used to be in schools, which had standards and propriety.

Seriously, “Let’s Talk About It is an illustrated guide to sex designed for teens, featuring comprehensive information about essential topics like orgasms, masturbation, and birth control, but it’s also so much more.” Should this be material pre-teens have? Is this material that should be taught in schools? If the parents want to buy it for their kids, that’s on them. This is not stuff schools should be pushing.

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