Book Update – Part 2 Book Burnings.

After I wrote yesterday’s post this came out…

Virginia school board members call for books to be burned amid GOP's campaign against schools teaching about race and sexuality
Insider
By John Haltiwanger
November 10, 2021


Two VA school board members called for burning books that have been deemed worthy of removal.

The Spotsylvania County School Board directed staff to begin removing "sexually explicit" books from library shelves.

The GOP has been pushing against teaching students about race and sexuality.

This came as the school board directed staff to begin removing "sexually explicit" books from library shelves, after voting 6-0 in favor of the removal, the Lance-Star reported. The board has plans to review how certain books or materials are defined as "objectionable," the paper said, which opens the door for other content to be removed.

Courtland representative Rabih Abuismail and Livingston representative Kirk Twigg both championed burning the books that have been removed.

"I think we should throw those books in a fire," Abuismail said. Meanwhile, Twigg said he wanted to "see the books before we burn them so we can identify within our community that we are eradicating this bad stuff."

Hmm… where have we seen book burning before?

Book burnings have a dark history linked to censorship and repressive regimes, and are often associated with Nazi Germany. Infamous Nazi book burnings in 1933 targeted thousands of books deemed "un-German," including the works of Jewish authors like like Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud, as well as banned American writers like Ernest Hemingway.

They know no bounds to their hate,

Last month, Youngkin ran a campaign ad featuring a local mother, Laura Murphy, who fought to get Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison's "Beloved" removed from her son's AP English curriculum back in 2013 (her son was a senior at the time). Murphy referred to the book, which was about slavery in the US and won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, as "some of the most explicit material you can imagine."

The students at one high school had enough of meddling parents and do-gooders.

Students strike back after books removed from school libraries in Kansas City Northland

Kansas City Star

By Robert A. Cronkleton

November 10, 2021

Students in Kansas City’s Northland have launched a petition aimed at stopping area school districts from pulling books from their high school’s libraries in response to an outcry from a parent’s group.

The Students against banning books in NKC District petition, organized by Northland Student Association, had garnered 782 signatures by Wednesday afternoon.

It is in response to the North Kansas City School District pulling two books from the shelves that The Northland Parent Association has deemed inappropriate for students because of its sexual or violent content.

“NKC Schools became aware of concerns over two books available in our high schools’ libraries,” the district said in a statement. “The books in question were pulled from each of our four high schools while the district conducts a review of processes pertaining to book selection, check-out, and review.

“NKC Schools provides a variety of books for students and strives for a diverse and engaging collection. We always appreciate and encourage community feedback as the families we serve are valuable partners in student success.”

The students know better where this is leading, banning books and talk of burning books.

This brings back memories of Anita Bryant and her "Save Our Children" campaign of the sixties and seventies.

Miami Debate Over Rights of Homosexuals Directs Wide Attention to a National Issue
By B. Drummond Ayres Jr. Special to The New York Times
May 10, 1977


MIAMI, May 9—A dispute over rights for homosexuals, building locally for the last several months, is focusing attention on a national issue.

As far as the Miami area is concerned, the argument will he settled on June 7, when residents vote to repeal or uphold a county ordinance that bars discrimination against homosexuals in employment, housing and public accommodations.

But both sides in the fight have vowed to continue the struggle elsewhere in the country, whatever the outcome of the Miami referendum. National committees are being organized and fund drives are under way in “gay” bars and fundamentalist churches from here to San Francisco.

The Republicans want to drag us back to the time of “Father Knows Best” where the father was king and everyone was subservient to the wife place was in the kitchen and pregnant, homosexuals were in the closet, and Blacks knew their place.

There is a word for that… fascism.

The Republicans brought us McCarthyism ("Have you now or ever have been a "Homosexual") and "Save Our Children" and now they are bring back book burnings.