I’m perfectly fine with not having every book on the shelf.
Many books don’t belong in the school library.
This LGBT book contains "very difficult" underage incest scenes but an Indiana school board allowed it to remain in a school library anyway
Submitted 5 months ago by OnlyTakesLs@sh.itjust.works to conservative@lemm.ee
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wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 5 months ago
echo@lemmings.world 4 months ago
Are you talking about the Bible? The Bible has incest and so much more within in…
Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Yeah I don’t know what a book with that level of graphic does in a high school library. The fact that it’s underage incest seems somewhat irrelevant though. It’s a book after all.
criitz@reddthat.com 5 months ago
Devils advocate here.
First, these are high school students, if they’re not already sucking and fucking each other, they’ve already watched it all go down on the internet-enabled iPads you gave them as toddlers to shut them up.
Second, removing every book that has any description of sex or a blowjob would leave you with a giant hole in your fiction section. If we’re going to remove anything a pearl-clutching parent could take offense to, we might as well just have encyclopedias (as long as they don’t mention sex).
Third, reading this book is NOT going to turn your teenager gay, or incestuous. It just doesn’t work like that. If you did anything to raise your kids you shouldn’t be afraid of them reading fiction. Just words.
Fourth, BANNING BOOKS IS BAD. Banning literature is a tool of control. Literally 1984.
Fifth, there are some people with situations in their life that may benefit from being able to identify with the characters in this book. Maybe they have had someone in their family act inappropriately with them and don’t know how to process it.
Sixth, no one has to read it. No ones being forced.
I would put forth that the real thing conservatives are afraid of with a book like this is that it MIGHT contribute to their kid being empathetic towards other people, specifically gay people. That is the real threat.