CNN’s Nick Watt is in Bonners Ferry, Idaho, where locals are pushing back against activists trying to get more than 400 books banned from the library - books that the library doesn’t even have. #CNN #News
Everyone is afraid of having gay children. It's the worst thing imaginable for many parents who don't see their kids as individuals but as an object meant to preserve their legacy for selfish reasons.
As most religious nitwitts are... They can't learn anything that contradicts thier superstitions, they don't want to hear it at all, and don't want anyone else to learn anything new either. You must believe what they do or else. Religion needs to be phased out, it stagnates the species.
@wokeness is a sickness that's not what @Created meant! As a parent, I'm also concerned about what books my kids read, but I also teach them to be open-minded about issues and I also ask them to come to me with an issue they don't understand. Parents should be involved in their kids' upbringing, but going and threatening a library for having certain books that you don't like is totally uncalled for. If you have proof that those books are present in the library, simply tell your kids that you don't want them reading them, but don't attack the entire library because the fact that you don't like them doesn't mean that everyone thinks the way you do (if you think at all, that is).
If their kid showed any signs of deviation from the parents distorted conception of straight and normal, they'd ask their cult leader to perform an exorcism.
What fascinates me every time is that these people will fight tooth and nails to keep their liberties and freedom but are first to want to remove the liberties of others. As my parents thought my brother and I, if its good for one its good for everyone. Bunch of hypocrites.
Agreed. They're also Doctors, Lawyers, Judges, and every other type of person you can think of. They're your neighbor, your best friend and maybe even someone in your family. Sexual deviance knows no boundaries. So just stay vigilant and take care of your family.
Thank you for highlighting this, as a librarian. These people are insane and have such patriarchal beliefs. It is not your place to be my parent or someone else’s kid’s parents.
You have to have a pretty empty, twisted life to devote your time to harassing librarians over a few books. Especially when literally anything is available to their kids 24/7 on the internet.
You ain’t kidding! They can also buy all kinds of illicit drugs on street corners, so they may as well sell them in grocery stores! Heck, give them out at school - they’re going to do drugs anyway!
Many of these people are first generation Smart phone users. Dam that predictive algorithm that only shows them what they want to see! They can’t see the truth still!! And they are not the type to search for the truth.
If you believe a book can jump out at you and you think you need to shoot it to protect yourselves coo coo coo coo, you should be disarmed and treated for fantastical mental disorders. 🤪
Oh, hell yeah! Maybe we should go to the libraries and demand they remove all those religious books. Naa, these people are too stupid to get the point anyway. Just be ready for when they act up and prosecute the survivors to the fullest extent of the law.
@@maggiehogland1891 Makes sense. In Oregon in the 80's, Neonatsies and militia-types were pushed out of the cities by groups like SHARP (Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice), so they worked their way into the rural areas outside of the cities, unfortunately. The neonatsy/militias always had a "Christian" bent to them. Seems like that was enough to help them blend into the rural areas without the level of pushback they got in cities.
The woman checking out books to see if they "should be banned," is taking it upon herself to decide whether or not you and I should be able to read them. Who the heck are these people? Who do they think they are?
This is truly frightening. I wish people would support their local libraries more. It’s a wonderful resource that can be taken away so easily by people who have never cracked a book in their lives.
Same reason people try to cancel others. They can't take anyone else having a different view than theirs. These type of people do a lot of screaming but have no facts to back their anger. Best to either ignore, or like I prefer to do, laugh at them to piss them off more.
@@MarkyMark2177 you drunk? When did they ever say that? trying to discredit using lies and then ignoring facts because they hurt your feelings...how GOP of you. Go look at the latest exchange between Kemp and Abrams to see a clear example of what I mean
This is why I left Idaho. I'd lived there all my life and loved it. My whole family is there, parents and grandparents and nieces and nephews. But once I realized I was queer, I knew it wouldn't be safe there for me anymore. It breaks my heart that people choose to nurture so much hate and fear inside themselves.
Crazy, isn’t it? They hate something that not one of them has probably read. Yet, I bet they’ve never fully read the book that their Redoubt pastor is telling them how they know these books are grooming their children either.
It doesn't matter to them. The mere EXISTENCE of ANYTHING which contradicts their worldview means that said worldview is DESTINED to collapse. Which just shows you how insipidly stupid and weak their worldview is.
These are the people who believe making your own choices is a crime. Of course they don't understand that people can choose not to do something without being forced.
it's called Wall St and corporate America using religious fundamentalism to divide and conquer the country so they can still afford yachts and 10 mansions amongst their board members. America is a financial racket first and foremost. and the elites love fueling and manipulating morons, especially the duty bound religious retards. what results is idiots who think they're voting for cultural issues. what they end up getting is tax cuts for billionaires. did I mention, America is an immoral dump worthy of carpet bombing? this is the result of letting, "screw over your own neighbor capitalism" to run amok. when the only value and national ethos is self enrichment, don't ever be surprised when fascist and religious lunatics start popping up.
The only thing I saw related to fascism was our president of the United States standing behind Nazi red colors attacking half of the country as threats to democracy and describing this as a presidential address if you look up the movie poster to devil advocate it was a spot on copy of Biden's speech
The 'banners' not having the courage of their so-called conviction and not showing up to face cameras at the library board meeting should say all you need to know.
As a neuropsychologist specialized in psychological evaluation, I say that every single person who showed up armed to protest books on a library needs to have their guns seized and be banned from owning guns again for at least 5 years. And even then, after those 5 years, they'd need to be reassessed, with prejudice.
Connect the non-sequiter. How does your status as a neuropsychologist have anything to do with your belief that these peoples' guns should be seized (presumably - from your comment - without due process of law). Are you suggesting that them showing up with guns (which they probably carry everywhere) is by itself sufficient evidence of a pathology for such a measure?
How about evaluating them for paranoia? Whenever a progressive is in office, so-called law-abiding gun owners add more guns and ammo to their arsenal. You can blame the NRA or white nationalists for manipulating them, call it mass paranoia, but it's still crazy.
You can't profess to "love liberty" while you're intimidating people with guns and telling them what they can and can't do. That's not being a "patriot" - that's being a hypocrite.
That's the irony of these people. They're like undisciplined children who think they can have it both ways. It's tragic really and the sad part is that they're teaching their children this behavior.
The attack on liberty comes from the groomers. Once they have a foot in the door they want to cancel everything that isn’t gay. Also there is a thing call right and wrong. Liberty doesn’t mean you do whatever you want that is lawlessness. There needs to be checks and balances and groomers need to be put in check cause they’re preying on children.
It's bad enough that they want to ban books in school libraries, but public libraries are for everyone. How dare people presume to dictate what other people can read? Especially since people who want to ban books at public libraries have never read those books!
Exactly, they are complete idiots. This also isn’t about protecting kids from predators, its all about them having control of what we can and can’t do. It amazes me how they actually take the time to show up to peoples houses while being armed. What’s wrong with people?!?!
Being 'silenced' is a part of their game. Even while they are standing on someone with a gun on him, they will still convince themselves they are acting defensively.
@@MissJade805 The same people that complain about the overreach of health protection orders are trying to control what other people can read. If they don’t want their kids reading these books that’s their right but it’s not our job as a society to coddle their kids. They want to shield them from things then they can watch them
@Truth Exposedo If I put together an 8 min video of the Orange Orangutan and his criminal idiosyncrasies since 2015 I'm sure it would explain why Biden was elected and why 67 Republican and Democratic judges agreed he won.
Well, this is why the founders were so admit of keep religion out of government. Problem is the Republicans thought they could just keep taking crazy far right money and pander to them enough to keep getting funds. Issue is they didn't realize someone like trump could make the crazy religious right feel confident to come out in the open Now Republicans can't control them.
Below is an email I sent to Jay Ashcroft, the secretary of state for Missouri about a law he has proposed concerning the restriction of books in Missouri’s libraries, as well as whether or not state/federal funding should be cut for those libraries that carry certain books. “First off… Who, exactly, gets to decide what is and isn’t age appropriate regarding books in our public libraries? Is it down to one person/moral compass/religious belief over another? One political ideology over another? One racial/ethnic background over another? Do more affluent residence of, let’s say, Blue Springs or Lee’s Summit have any right to tell kids who live on Prospect, Paseo, Troost etc. what they are and aren’t allowed to read? What if those children see themselves in a given character or book, But some affluent, suburban soccer mom has decided they can’t read that book because of its language, themes/content, and because her precious, innocent boy or girl might, heaven forbid, be exposed to the lives of others who aren’t as fortunate as they are? Second if you want to monitor what your children read, fine, but you have no right to legislate what other peoples’ children read. Please explain to me how the “Party of Freedom“ can even fathom the idea of restricting book access. regards, Dorvell Stewart, Independence, MO.”
They're religious extremists - terrorists. This is the Christian Taliban. If they successfully ban books they'll be coming after something else next. Women's rights, LGBT+ citizens, black citizens, the disabled... anyone who isn't a straight, white, healthy, "Christian" male will become a target for these extremists.
These people are absolutely crazy, and they aren't going away. Good people everywhere, no matter their political party, must make it clear that they will not hold their communities hostage.
You're being chased on CNN by pornographers. Every post you make on this CNN blog will be followed by a porn ad just like above. TH-cam settings allow you to report this and remove the ad immediately, but it can pop right back up because the pornos are hovering on CNN blog boards with your name/handle attached. I virtually quit commenting on CNN blogs because of it. Posting on a dif blog (news agency) and it goes away.
I worked in a library as a young child it was the best place to learn about every culture and ppl on this planet! Its written knowledge that everyone should learn because its the internet itself. Cult on wide scale of beliefs!
Honestly this is an insult to the men and women who sacrifice their well-being to protect our liberty and freedom of speech but the people they're defending don't believe and practice these ideals.
@@daMillenialTrucker what kids are u talking about ? Because your children are the only ones you have the right to speak of , who are you or anyone else to speak on how other s raise their children.
@@danieltriplett3616 why in the hell do you think these books are banned from that library? In public spaces things should be neutral, if you wanna teach your kids on how to be gender queer then DO IT IN YOUR OWN HOME.
@@daMillenialTrucker who are you to decide what I or anyone else teaches their kids ? If it's a public service then all the public should be included, if you don't want your children to read about a specific subject then it should be up to you to tell them not to , otherwise known as parenting
These "activists" "are afraid that people now have the opportunity to understand that not everyone is like them. Different people go through different experiences every single day in this country. And maybe learning about them might create a little more empathy towards those individuals to learn about oppression, to learn about the basic everyday bigotry that these groups of people face.
The one that really makes me puke is when these people whose life is built around fear and hatred and xenophobia pretend or even convince themselves they care about trans kids. The only caring they do is caring that they exist, and wishing they didn't. Which the kids do arrange for them too often.
Always have always will. Bet they love beating their kids with belts to promote “old school discipline” though. Gotta love “old fashioned Christian values”!
As a librarian, if you don’t like a book, then DONT READ IT! If you don’t want your kids to read a specific book then don’t check it out, parents should have a say on what their children, watch, listen and read but do not take the option for others to read a particular book just because it offends the few.
My best friend is probably going to move to Idaho, he said the time is an hour difference from his home in Ventura. I told him it's more like 100 years.
I so confused, would the real God stand up because Republicans Devils has lots of gods! Thanks to Christianity ✝️ and what a mockery their children will be???????! I am waiting for the next generation and to add fuel ⛽️ to the fire 🔥 we have shortage of teacher that because of history, so which means no history lessons in classroom, no Biblical stories or simple No teachings of the bible! 😂🤣🤣🤣 USA 🇨🇳, USA 🇷🇺, USA 🇦🇫, dumb kids around amen!
Fear sales and the new comers bought the belief that books caused people to be gay. SPOILER ALERT. GAYS AND STRAIGHTS HAVE ALWYAS WALKED AMOUNG, THE SMART THE THE LOW IQ HAVE ALWAYS WALK AMOUNG US.. There have always been cults. And cult members just don't see the world as it really is. People who are different than than they causes great fear. in them. There are those among the new comers pushing fear who will take that fear and turn it into a business opportunity. Beware of the man selling the purple KolAid .
Conservatives love to project. Everything they say or claim is the exact opposite. The very nature of conservatives is to cancel everything, not for progress, not for values, certainly not for freedom. They cancel to maintain their status quo. Not to mention they are plagiarists - they simply copy and repeat whatever the Dems say about them. When they say they are "true patriots", they are not. When they say they are "Christians" they are not. When they say they are the party of "family values" and "law and order" they are not. When they say that pornography is bad, they give a free pass to rapists, pedophiles and manchilds who had affairs and grabbed women.
This has been going on since forever. The uneducated are intimidated and feel threatened by knowledge, thus they attack it. A Conservative pinhead can only learn so much before they feel their world is collapsing.
@wokeness is a sickness Did they? I don’t think BLM burnt down any libraries. Strange you felt the need to lie. I suppose lying is all you’ve got when your viewpoint is based in idiocy.
That`s why people need to be armed just in case these far right radical fascist conservatives start they shit. Protect you & your family by any means necessary.
Parents don’t want their K-5th graders having sexual material pushed on them for political purposes. I can’t believe people actually still buy into CNN’s cherry picked narrative 🙄. We don’t want GROOMERS, period
@@sandburgmartin7947 Actually, most of the call for book banning comes from the left. The most banned authors in America are Steinbeck, Twain, Harper Lee and JK Rowling.
No wonder that the percentage of people who say they have *"no religious identification"* is slowly but steadily increasing, particularly amongst young people, and well-educated people. To be fair, this is common amongst most developed countries.
I’m shocked that these people love to harass others when they are not on camera…but when the meetings are next to law enforcement and on camera, oddly, they are no where to be found.
@@denisemayosky1955 Thanks but right now I’m less interested in the correction of my grammar and much more interested on pointing out the cowardness and how unpatriotic these people are.
"There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses." Ezekiel 23:20 Are they going to ban the bible next?
My wife was a school librarian and the closest thing to sexually explicit material that the kids and some teachers, were interested in was the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. I was a farmboy with two older sisters so between open bedroom doors and livestock i knew that Barbie and Ken were not anatomically correct. What century are these book banners living in? Perhaps we need to force pets to wear pants.
@@chrisspellman8545 Exactly. That's what makes the CRT cult being forced on our kids in their own schools so pernicious. leftism (progressivism) is a cult like islam. It needs to be stopped.
That would be the Christian thing to do! But they're "Christian" in words only, not in action. What they're doing.... That's what Jesus would NOT do! Maybe that's the question they should be asking themselves... Instead of "WWJD?" they should ask "WWJND?" and then NOT DO THOSE THINGS! I really don't think Jesus would take a grenade launcher to a library!
I'm sure they spend the rest of their time on good Christian causes, like getting "Roe vs. Wade" overturned-- 'cause saving the fetuses is more important than actually doing anything to save the abused, neglected, unwanted, or starving kids who already exist in their own backyard. Of course, they're only interested in saving the white, Christian, straight babies anyway. All the rest are destined to Hell, so why bother, right?? 😒😒😒
Banning books is the most unpatriotic move anyone could make. To conform to one thought or idea is unAmerican . It is the complete opposite of freedom.
In fact, it sounds like cancel culture which is what such individuals claim to be against. Once they start coming to libraries armed with any guns, police should be arresting them and holding them in custody until they face trial.
@@shawnharrison9701 Uttering threats for starters. Add the firearms in there and there should be additional charges. Why would anyone be wielding high powered weapons around a library except for resorting to threats of violence? Schools, places of worship, clubs and other places have sadly been on the receiving end of gun-toting individuals for years. It's no less tragic and disturbing that someone is threatening a librarian over books and such individuals who are willing to be wielding such weapons so be held to account before they hurt someone or worse.
What if they came to church armed and said the Bible must go? It will lead to that if not stopped. We have 4 great freedoms. Freedom of Assembliy,Freedom of Religion,Freedom From Want and Freedom From Fear. If we uphold the first two then we need ought worry about having the other two. Freedom of speech comes from Freedom of Assembliy. When it comes to books if a person can read they can think for themselves. If they can think independently then they can be free.
hang on - wait: gay teens have been reading hetero-normative books for decades and not a single one of them has been "turned straight", but these nutters are saying that if a single straight kid reads a "gay book" or even just goes past it on the shelves they'll be become a raging drag queen instantly? I think the book banners have a few screws loose in the reasoning and rationality departments.
"A cozy relationship between the police department and the Public Library" had me in stitches. Ben Franklin started the idea of public libraries in America as bulwarks against tyranny. Seems like he knew what he was talking about. To take over the country, close the libraries.
Ben Franklin also secretly built the first pizza place in New Jersey and named it Hillary Clinton's Pizzeria. Think about it. Sincerely, Every f*cknut Trumpanzee Q cultist I've ever met
@@longforgotten4823 To be fair it also contained the court, the sheriff's department, county registrar, public health office and DMV (only on the 4th Thursday of the month, it was a roving DMV). Very rural area.
When media shows up and asks them to expose their view for the whole public they scurry away like rats. Doesn't give you the idea that they know they stand for what is really right. As a student I volunteered my time at my school library and loved it so much it pains me to see library and caretakers of the library, a place of education, free thought, and knowledge to be shared to all is treated with such disrespect.
I would do the same as them if I knew the government at a very different idea of what is right. Depicted them as not believing what they preach is not what they are. Many of them of them truly believe they are doing their best.
Crazy to see the town I grew up in on CNN, brought back many memories seeing the inside of the library. They definitely need to get the bad books out though.
I genuinely free bad for the communities that have to put up with this kind of stuff. Civil discourse is dead and it is groups like these that have killed it.
We have been far to complacent in our comfort and have allowed darkness to take root. While I may not be Biden’s biggest fan he took the first steps in shinning a light on that darkness in last nights speech. Now it is our responsibility and choice to unite regardless of our difference and peacefully put an end to this with the tools our founding fathers gave us. And perhaps add a few more to safeguard against such in the future given how the world has change since their day. We should be glad we got Trump and not another with a bit more sense in how they went about things…
@@evadedenbach1226 One school system put it on a list of books to be reviewed. That's a far cry from "Texas." I live in Texas, and they'd sooner elect Nancy Pelosi as president, than ban the Bible. There were a lot of parents speaking out at the school board meeting about the bans. Sorta makes me proud.
Wow. These must be some seriously weak, clueless, powerless parents in that redoubt group. I never worried about what BOOKS my kids could find in the library, because I knew my KIDS. Sadly, my son wasn't a big reader. But my daughter read a LOT of books. I could compile a list of her favorites, and there was a decent list of those she didn't like. If you know your kids, and teach your kids, and stay involved in their lives, you don't need to worry much about outside influences--especially not BOOKS! These parents are surrendering their power and influence to outsiders, assuming that all it takes is a book or two in their child's presence, to turn them gay, make them want transgender reassignment, or cause them to be victimized by sexual predators. Good grief, talk to your kids! Find out what they're reading, and read it yourself. Discuss their books. Ask them questions. Show them your own favorites. This is what fascism looks like. You know you're in the wrong, when your actions are in line with Hitler.
Isn't there a lot of begatting with underage girls in the Bible?! Not to mention the fundamentalist belief in an actual Adam and Eve who then must have procreated with their own children to create further humans? There's a lot of offensive stuff in the bible I wouldn't want my kids to read. Do they censor those parts of the bible for their kids as 'adults only' reading?
Pretty much what I was thinking. How weak-minded do you have to be to believe that a book will force your mind and behavior to change against your will? And if you think a book can't do that to _you_ but can do it to your children, then _teach your children_ to be strong in the face of manipulative books. It's that simple. What these people are doing is incredibly lazy parenting _at best,_ insisting that every institution raise their children for them-but only the way the biological parents want them to-and every other person accept that their lives must be reduced in experience because the biological parents want to pretend their belief in God gives them the authority to preach fire and brimstone to people who didn't ask to hear it (which goes against the teaching of Jesus) and brandish items that break the sixth Commandment if actually used (and breaks the second if not). The ludicrous part is that you _know_ that if someone went to that library meeting and demanded that the Bible and all religious texts be removed because they might indoctrinate kids to religion and negatively impact society by encouraging slavery and incest and so on, these people would scream at the top of their lungs about the First Amendment and how God is Good and how religion never hurt anyone (who didn't deserve it, I guess?). And they would never see the irony of their behavior.
@@anastasiabeaverhausen8220 Heh, I'm a Christian. I've got no patience for hypocrisy. You're absolutely right about underage girls, polygamy, and expecting rape victims to marry their rapist. There's a lot of offense in the Bible. It's historical, and taking it out of history, and expecting people to behave the same way today, is.... problematic. These nutballs are the reason we need to have separation of church and state. Libraries are for everyone--not just Christians, or kids, or easily offended right-wing snowflakes. Funny, but no one is FORCING their kids to go to the library, and check out books they find offensive, and READ them! I've heard from many Christians, and they really believe the US was set up as a Christian country. They believe as such, God gives his protection and blessing. Taking that away, feels threatening to them. They feel they need to insure that Christian values stay in the forefront of our government, laws, and lifestyles. They're wrong. This was NEVER a Christian country. It's in the Constitution. They can argue that the forefathers were all believers, but in the basic principles of the country, they wrote down freedom--not theocracy. Religious extremists give all of us a bad name. There are some of us out here practicing what Jesus taught, and trying not to turn the world against us. Love, grace, forgiveness, long-suffering, caring for widows and orphans, feeding the hungry, welcoming the foreigner.....all those concepts the nuts seem to have forgotten.
@@thetimekeeper955 You came close to the reason: they believe the christian bible changed their minds and their lives (and most of them haven't even read the thing). So of course their feeble reasoning skills tell them that ANY book can do that. They're all magic! Except for the Quran of course, that's black magic. SMH
@@thetimekeeper955 One thing that isn't talked about in this piece, is .... how did these people learn about all these books they want banned? I mean....they didn't find them in the library themselves. So, SOMEONE fed them the skewed idea that these books were being forced on all the kids, via their local libraries. Hmmm, I wonder who would do that.....
I worked in a library for about 30 years. This sort of stuff has been going on for all that time, but without the guns. Challenged children's books are generally labelled Parental Advisory, or something like that. So then it is up to them. Most parents don't actually give a shit if their kid takes out a Deadpool DVD. They only get their hackles up if it a kid's book about gay penguins, which is usually labelled Parental Advisory. What I am saying, is that you can never please them, even though they have the option of checking out what books their kids will read. It's called Parental Responsibility.
Out of interest, is "parental advisory" limited only to controversial books or is it also used on books that have genuine reasons for it? To me the term is similar to the PG ratings in films, indicating they're not automatically suitable for young children, so I'm wondering if some poor parents are getting stuck in a situation of not knowing if they should say no to their child borrowing a book, due to consern that it may not be age appropriate, when in fact it's just got a family with 2 dad's in it or whatever. I really hope there's 2 different labeling types to make age appropriate clearly distinguishable from this crap!
Actually, PG means Parental Guidance. As in it is up to the parent to decide if their children should watch the movie or not. It does not and never has meant it was for children. G means General as in for everybody. There is a similar thing with books though far lesser known. However, regardless of any rating it is the parent's responsibility to actually read the book or watch the movie/show and decide if it is suitable for THEIR children. In short do not rely on ratings. Actually, read and watch things before you let your children read or watch them. That is just common sense (or at least it use to be) and logical. Stop blaming everyone else. While it is bear impossible to prevent outside manipulations and pressure to affect your children you can minimize it as best as you can and do your best to teach your and raise your children up right. The real issue is that parents do not actually raise their children anymore. Everyone else and society does. That is why you get ignorant people like in the stupid group in Idaho.
@@mehere8038 No library in the world is going to have any books that are sexually or violently explicit in the Children's Section. The one's that are challenged, are usually about 2 moms, or a girl goes to school where she is the only black person, or a family that has to live in a car because they are homeless, or a kid who has cancer, or a kid dealing with a drunk parent. So they are labelled and kept on a separate shelve so the parents themselves can decide if they want their kids to read them. No kid is going to stumble upon the Marquis De Sade while looking for a cute colourfull book about a talking stuffed bear who likes honey...and is tortured and starved by his owner.
@@Basileus84 that's actually sad then. I'm not a parent but used to work in childcare & vacation care. We would do movies with the vacation care kids after lunch each day, as a sort of rest time. We'd let the kids choose, but only from G & PG, not PG13+ so applying this to books, they would have missed out on any inclusive stuff if it gets uplabled cause of this crap. I can easily see regular parents missing that shelf completely & missing out on reading with their kids the sort of stuff they want to expose their kids to, to grow them into happy, well adjusted people. I mean a child dying of cancer or living with an abusive parent is a VERY different category to a child living with 2 loving mums! The idea of that shelf is it should be that off that shelf, kids can read it themselves, but on that shelf, the parents can tell their kids that the rule is that the parent will read that book to the child, cause it has concepts in it they may need to talk about or have explained to them. That's really sad to see books with 2 mums, black kids etc go into that category instead of just being books that kids stumble across & grow up exposed to as just a regular part of normal society. We used to intentionally buy books at all childcare centres I worked in, that had representatives of any parts of society that we were lacking, so as to normalise it in the children's eyes & expose them to it. Books with kids in wheelchairs, mixed colours etc etc were something we'd look for to ensure they were exposed to this stuff as "normal" They didn't come out as "special" books, they were on the shelves for kids to read themselves anytime they wanted to! which imo is how it should be! Books about illness, we had a few that we'd sometimes put in the regular bookshelf & sometimes pull, depending on where kids were with that at the time, but we also had a separate book collection for books like that & would pull them out only with parents permission & knowledge, to read to them in supervised ways to help kids cope with going into hospital, or a friend or family member being sick or dying, cause these books could be used to help in the education on this stuff, but it had to be done carefully, in line with what each child's maturity could handle. Books with black kids don't come into that category! If these parents had been exposed to them at a young age, they probably wouldn't have the immaturity issues they are now suffering from!
I promise you there is not a single person that went to school for library science because they wanted to be on the front lines of America's march towards headassery... we are living in ridiculous times
didn't realize library books were capable of checking themselves out and coming home with you and putting a gun to your head and forcing you to read them
That these people that (obviously) don’t even visit libraries are actively closing and destroying libraries is the absolute worst part… it’s unconscionable and disgusting.
Fahrenheit 451 is becoming a reality. It isn't so much about politics as they make it out to be. It's more about conforming. Conforming to standards that people want. And also sussy amongus imposter.
The simple fact they refuse to go on recored & be interviewed nor show up at township meetings when it's known cameras will be there. Tells you all you need to know about their true motivations. If you're embarrassed to be seen advocating for a point, you don't really believe it yourself.
I hope the entire nations realizes that dictators and their supporters really are too dumb to face off against the truth and strong democrats. Case in point Donald Trump. Also Hitler who killed himself rather than be accountable.
This is sick. Absolutely sick. It reminds me of an old joke by the French comedian Fernandel about how the people in his village hated Arabs and one day decided to kick out a guy named Hamid. And how in the next day there was no bread in the village, because Hamid was the only bread maker. This people don’t see how they’re willfully walking themselves back into poverty.
When you're a normal, decent person and you encounter sudden hostility that you do not understand, then chances are good someone is telling lies about you. This is a good example. The library didn't even have the books, but agitators lied to the locals, and now the locals are too humiliated to talk about it.
@wokeness is a sickness none of these books promote "kiddie fiddling" and the fact you think they do just shows your ignorance, arrogance, lack of knowledge and the fact you probably havnt stepped in a library since you were forced to In middle school...
So it's up to parents what books a library can have on its shelves? If that woman doesn't want to read a book then no one is forcing her. But this is about extremist Christianity so we're not dealing with rational people.
Christianity is often mentioned by people like you, yet that is hardly the only thing that plays a role in irrational behaviors like this. Political ideologies are far more likely to be an issue.
Yup, the parents job is to pay attention to what books their kids are reading, not try to censor other kids' fare - but - one lady said that deviant sex books were drawing perverts into the library and while they are there they might as well molest a child - these people are simply sick (and bad ignorant)
I wonder how many people actually know Frederick Douglass. Im so glad theres a book that came out about him that is suitable for younger generation to read.
@@robertstanford1778 Most correct though I’d vote for any whom shows integrity to put forth their oaths of office before self interest regardless if they have a D or an R in front of their name…sadly at this point I see very few Rs willing to do that . The few that have are being purged from the party.
Banning books is only a problem when the right does it I guess. When those on the left banned Dr. Seuss books, burned copies of Harry Potter novels in bonfires and denounced classic children's literature like "Little House on the Prarie" and "Mary Poppins" as racist that didn't bother you.
The books were never in the library. Critical race theory was never taught to students younger than college. There were no trans people bothering anyone in bathrooms. They just make us issues to get mad about. It is a culture war, not an actual legal battle over something in reality.
Because THEY ARE ACCOMPLICES IN THE CHURCHES' CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN. It's no coincidence how many of these cults/sects/whatever build their core around males (or one male) to do with women and girls as they please, because THEY THEMSELVES ARE PEDOPHILES AT THEIR CORE.
As someone who lived in Idaho for 20 years (moved to New Mexico in 2020), I am horrified at what that state has become. I hope these parents have thier kids forcibly removed because obviously they are unstable and a risk. What would they do to thier poor children if they did come out at gay or transgender?? It's horrifying to think about...... I hope local law enforcement steps up and investigates these "parents".
Tell me these people are not Nazis. Unreal how anyone can act this way. They need mental health intervention since they are clearly not right in the head.
This makes my blood boil, I hate when people (especially librarians) are being verbally threatened and attacked for something as innocent as this and the parents who are the ones who are so hell bent on keeping their kids and family “Pure” act as if though their ways are gonna stick! Do you really think that for a minute that your children or grandchildren aren’t going to rebel against you?? Books aren’t the enemy here, you have the right and freedom to do with what you please in YOUR life (NOT intimate or hurt others), and don’t EVEN stamp “GOD’S NAME” on what your saying to others as if he approves of you threatening people because of what you don’t approve of.
Exactly I wonder why these people feel so threatened about the 400 books that aren't even at this library it kind of screams guilty conscience to me they're probably a bunch of Internet porn watchers. It would be really funny if every one of them had a child that came out of the closet 😂😂
People talk about how cheap it is to buy a big house in places like Idaho, but they dont tell you that you have to deal with ignorant idiots like redoubters and book banners
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As a German I can say it's never a good sign when a group starts banning books while praising the old ways where women remained in the kitchen...
They also swear allegiance to their flag in school 🤨
History doesn't lie does it, bro?
Everyone is afraid of having gay children. It's the worst thing imaginable for many parents who don't see their kids as individuals but as an object meant to preserve their legacy for selfish reasons.
@@jacobgarcia4188
Hopefully these children will turn in their Nazi MAGA Cult parents.
Kinder, kirke, kuchen
If you're afraid that books might change someone's thinking, you're not afraid of books, you're afraid of thinking.
Excellent point.
As most religious nitwitts are... They can't learn anything that contradicts thier superstitions, they don't want to hear it at all, and don't want anyone else to learn anything new either. You must believe what they do or else. Religion needs to be phased out, it stagnates the species.
@wokeness is a sickness that's not what @Created meant! As a parent, I'm also concerned about what books my kids read, but I also teach them to be open-minded about issues and I also ask them to come to me with an issue they don't understand. Parents should be involved in their kids' upbringing, but going and threatening a library for having certain books that you don't like is totally uncalled for. If you have proof that those books are present in the library, simply tell your kids that you don't want them reading them, but don't attack the entire library because the fact that you don't like them doesn't mean that everyone thinks the way you do (if you think at all, that is).
@wokeness is a sickness get a life bro you be typing like crazy
@wokeness is a sickness those such books don’t exist.
What's sad is that these people are probably the ones that would alienate and reject their own child if that child came out to them!
@Chet Senior Most of them prefer anal, too.
If their kid showed any signs of deviation from the parents distorted conception of straight and normal, they'd ask their cult leader to perform an exorcism.
What fascinates me every time is that these people will fight tooth and nails to keep their liberties and freedom but are first to want to remove the liberties of others. As my parents thought my brother and I, if its good for one its good for everyone. Bunch of hypocrites.
News flash: The “sexual deviants” are in the churches not the libraries.
Prove it John
So true
Agreed. They're also Doctors, Lawyers, Judges, and every other type of person you can think of. They're your neighbor, your best friend and maybe even someone in your family. Sexual deviance knows no boundaries. So just stay vigilant and take care of your family.
LITERALLY
Amen!
When books are seen as more dangerous than guns you know you’re heading into darkness.
books are dangerous. the Bible brainwashed these fools.
Maaaan, you got that right..
Scary times my friends. Almost sounds like 1930’s nazi Germany.
@wokeness is a sickness the only other time in history that there was talk of a "national redoubt" was in Germany at the end of WW2.
Excellent point.
Imagine being so inadequate you have to bully the local librarian
BULLY & INTIMATE THE FASCISTS PLAYBOOK!!!!
Thank you for highlighting this, as a librarian. These people are insane and have such patriarchal beliefs. It is not your place to be my parent or someone else’s kid’s parents.
Banning books is asinine. If you don't want your kids reading certain books, you need to handle that between you and your kids. It's called parenting.
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 well said!!
@@EDUARDO-bj9wf donald is Cursed ,,bad things will happen to him ,,watch :)
Exactly! No sane parent would send their children to a government-funded school.
They don't read.
Big brother big government conservatism is on the march.
You have to have a pretty empty, twisted life to devote your time to harassing librarians over a few books. Especially when literally anything is available to their kids 24/7 on the internet.
Exactly. This is how uneducated they are.
You took the words out of my mouth and I can’t say anything else anymore better😏.
You ain’t kidding! They can also buy all kinds of illicit drugs on street corners, so they may as well sell them in grocery stores! Heck, give them out at school - they’re going to do drugs anyway!
@@AngelaShawWestoven They’re not uneducated, they don’t want gender politics pushed on their kids at an in appropriate age
@@MarkyMark2177 Read the top post, dummy
The irony of those who can barely read wanting to ban books, is palpable.
Yup! And laughable.
yes and the greater irony of NOT banning guns while banning the books!! 📖
Imagine trying to “ban” books when every single person has a magic box in their pocket with every book ever written for free.
they dont think that far ahead
Right?! This is the most attention I've seen libraries get in years! Who reads hard copies anymore?
Many of these people are first generation Smart phone users. Dam that predictive algorithm that only shows them what they want to see!
They can’t see the truth still!! And they are not the type to search for the truth.
@@MacchiatoSwirlGirl 💯 agree
Shhhh, you’ll spark some actual thinkers in their cult.
Imagine being so afraid of books, you think you need a gun to defend yourself from them.
If you believe a book can jump out at you and you think you need to shoot it to protect yourselves coo coo coo coo, you should be disarmed and treated for fantastical mental disorders. 🤪
🎯 wtf
Imagine talking about books and libraries but falling back on the lamest hipster cliche.
@@markokoume9343 except some of the people wanting to ban books that weren't in the library turned up with guns.
Papercuts can really hurt
My mother was a librarian for 28 years and she suffered sh*t like this in the 80s. I stand with librarians!
Wow that’s insane
Oh, hell yeah! Maybe we should go to the libraries and demand they remove all those religious books. Naa, these people are too stupid to get the point anyway. Just be ready for when they act up and prosecute the survivors to the fullest extent of the law.
@@luceromanjarrez349 - in Oregon no less. And it was religious people who came after the library to bane books
Good for you and your mom
@@maggiehogland1891 Makes sense. In Oregon in the 80's, Neonatsies and militia-types were pushed out of the cities by groups like SHARP (Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice), so they worked their way into the rural areas outside of the cities, unfortunately. The neonatsy/militias always had a "Christian" bent to them. Seems like that was enough to help them blend into the rural areas without the level of pushback they got in cities.
The woman checking out books to see if they "should be banned," is taking it upon herself to decide whether or not you and I should be able to read them. Who the heck are these people? Who do they think they are?
The "FREEDOM PARTY"...LMAO!!!
You need to act. Or Idaho will end up like California!☺
Religiously misguided, politically manipulated zealots.
This is truly frightening. I wish people would support their local libraries more. It’s a wonderful resource that can be taken away so easily by people who have never cracked a book in their lives.
"Liberty Loving"? Then why the hell are they trying to ban books?
Same reason people try to cancel others. They can't take anyone else having a different view than theirs. These type of people do a lot of screaming but have no facts to back their anger. Best to either ignore, or like I prefer to do, laugh at them to piss them off more.
Liberty for me not for thee
They like to use words like liberty and freedom but they are not interested in what those words means.
Because the books are sexually perverse and available to young children.
@@davidserlin8097 They are quite similar to many of you guys as well, both claim to care about freedom and liberty only when it's convenient.
Book banners accuse news reporters of silencing them when asked for interviews.
How ironic is that?
How crazy is it that CNN and MSNBC told you that Rittenhouse shot 40 black people and you still believe their cherry picked narratives?
@@MarkyMark2177 you drunk?
When did they ever say that?
trying to discredit using lies and then ignoring facts because they hurt your feelings...how GOP of you. Go look at the latest exchange between Kemp and Abrams to see a clear example of what I mean
Zero self awareness, I'm telling ya. Paid agitators is my guess, wouldn't be surprised if they're Putin paid puppets.
@Just Be did you watch the video? That’s literally what the entire video was about.
@Just Be The video is less than a day old.
This is why I left Idaho. I'd lived there all my life and loved it. My whole family is there, parents and grandparents and nieces and nephews. But once I realized I was queer, I knew it wouldn't be safe there for me anymore. It breaks my heart that people choose to nurture so much hate and fear inside themselves.
I left Idaho too in 2020 due to being transgender. It was just too dangerous for me and my family.
I guess they haven’t heard of a thing called the internet where you can see so many things not written in books.
I must have missed the part where people are being forced to check out these books.
Crazy, isn’t it? They hate something that not one of them has probably read. Yet, I bet they’ve never fully read the book that their Redoubt pastor is telling them how they know these books are grooming their children either.
It doesn't matter to them.
The mere EXISTENCE of ANYTHING which contradicts their worldview means that said worldview is DESTINED to collapse.
Which just shows you how insipidly stupid and weak their worldview is.
These are the people who believe making your own choices is a crime. Of course they don't understand that people can choose not to do something without being forced.
The books this Library doesn't even have lol
Good point. They can choose not to check them out... Pretty simple...
"They show up with guns on their hips and Bible tracts in their hands" This tells me everything I need to know. It's called FASCISM.
it's called Wall St and corporate America using religious fundamentalism to divide and conquer the country so they can still afford yachts and 10 mansions amongst their board members.
America is a financial racket first and foremost. and the elites love fueling and manipulating morons, especially the duty bound religious retards. what results is idiots who think they're voting for cultural issues. what they end up getting is tax cuts for billionaires.
did I mention, America is an immoral dump worthy of carpet bombing? this is the result of letting, "screw over your own neighbor capitalism" to run amok.
when the only value and national ethos is self enrichment, don't ever be surprised when fascist and religious lunatics start popping up.
It's called colonialism...less we forget
Putting a label on it won’t make it disappear.
The only thing I saw related to fascism was our president of the United States standing behind Nazi red colors attacking half of the country as threats to democracy and describing this as a presidential address if you look up the movie poster to devil advocate it was a spot on copy of Biden's speech
@@mencken8 no one claimed it did.
“Those who burn books will in the end burn people” -Heinrich Heine
The 'banners' not having the courage of their so-called conviction and not showing up to face cameras at the library board meeting should say all you need to know.
As a neuropsychologist specialized in psychological evaluation, I say that every single person who showed up armed to protest books on a library needs to have their guns seized and be banned from owning guns again for at least 5 years. And even then, after those 5 years, they'd need to be reassessed, with prejudice.
Absolutely no need to turn up to a library meeting armed except for having the intention to intimidate! And these people claim to be religious lol
Connect the non-sequiter. How does your status as a neuropsychologist have anything to do with your belief that these peoples' guns should be seized (presumably - from your comment - without due process of law). Are you suggesting that them showing up with guns (which they probably carry everywhere) is by itself sufficient evidence of a pathology for such a measure?
@@phaedrussmith1949 threating with a weapon is a serious crime.
How about evaluating them for paranoia? Whenever a progressive is in office, so-called law-abiding gun owners add more guns and ammo to their arsenal. You can blame the NRA or white nationalists for manipulating them, call it mass paranoia, but it's still crazy.
@@raygover7458 The story doesn't say they threatened anyone with a weapon and you know it.
You can't profess to "love liberty" while you're intimidating people with guns and telling them what they can and can't do. That's not being a "patriot" - that's being a hypocrite.
That's the irony of these people. They're like undisciplined children who think they can have it both ways. It's tragic really and the sad part is that they're teaching their children this behavior.
The Western story-right from the beginning...nothing has changed..smh
That's being a Trumpublican Christian Nationalist Nazi.
The attack on liberty comes from the groomers. Once they have a foot in the door they want to cancel everything that isn’t gay. Also there is a thing call right and wrong. Liberty doesn’t mean you do whatever you want that is lawlessness. There needs to be checks and balances and groomers need to be put in check cause they’re preying on children.
That sounds like Russia.
It's bad enough that they want to ban books in school libraries, but public libraries are for everyone.
How dare people presume to dictate what other people can read? Especially since people who want to ban books at public libraries have never read those books!
why are these people, not arrested and put in jail
They claim they are being silenced but when they're asked for an interview they refuse to speak? The only people who are silencing them is themselves.
Exactly, they are complete idiots. This also isn’t about protecting kids from predators, its all about them having control of what we can and can’t do. It amazes me how they actually take the time to show up to peoples houses while being armed. What’s wrong with people?!?!
Being 'silenced' is a part of their game. Even while they are standing on someone with a gun on him, they will still convince themselves they are acting defensively.
Cowards. They know their point of view is untenable and they'd make utter fools of themselves if they ended up getting video recorded.
@@MissJade805 The same people that complain about the overreach of health protection orders are trying to control what other people can read. If they don’t want their kids reading these books that’s their right but it’s not our job as a society to coddle their kids. They want to shield them from things then they can watch them
They also claim to be patriots but side with neo notsee thinking and tactics. Don’t try to find logic in this crowd dude.
"The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it."
-------George Orwell
I've seen more sexual perverts in churches posing as fake pastors, than in a library!
@Truth Exposedo If I put together an 8 min video of the Orange Orangutan and his criminal idiosyncrasies since 2015 I'm sure it would explain why Biden was elected and why 67 Republican and Democratic judges agreed he won.
Well, this is why the founders were so admit of keep religion out of government. Problem is the Republicans thought they could just keep taking crazy far right money and pander to them enough to keep getting funds. Issue is they didn't realize someone like trump could make the crazy religious right feel confident to come out in the open
Now Republicans can't control them.
Quess that's why Demonrats hate Conservatives so much. Demonrats hate the truth.
The American education.
Next..
Below is an email I sent to Jay Ashcroft, the secretary of state for Missouri about a law he has proposed concerning the restriction of books in Missouri’s libraries, as well as whether or not state/federal funding should be cut for those libraries that carry certain books.
“First off…
Who, exactly, gets to decide what is and isn’t age appropriate regarding books in our public libraries? Is it down to one person/moral compass/religious belief over another? One political ideology over another? One racial/ethnic background over another? Do more affluent residence of, let’s say, Blue Springs or Lee’s Summit have any right to tell kids who live on Prospect, Paseo, Troost etc. what they are and aren’t allowed to read? What if those children see themselves in a given character or book, But some affluent, suburban soccer mom has decided they can’t read that book because of its language, themes/content, and because her precious, innocent boy or girl might, heaven forbid, be exposed to the lives of others who aren’t as fortunate as they are?
Second if you want to monitor what your children read, fine, but you have no right to legislate what other peoples’ children read.
Please explain to me how the “Party of Freedom“ can even fathom the idea of restricting book access.
regards,
Dorvell Stewart, Independence, MO.”
"Those who burn books will in the end burn people," Heinrich Heine.
Just imagine showing up to a County Library board meeting ARMED WITH WEAPONS...... What is wrong with these people....?
They are ameri cants
They're religious extremists - terrorists.
This is the Christian Taliban. If they successfully ban books they'll be coming after something else next.
Women's rights, LGBT+ citizens, black citizens, the disabled... anyone who isn't a straight, white, healthy, "Christian" male will become a target for these extremists.
Jesus would be proud of them🤗😇
@@chrisspellman8545 How in the world do you know what a man who has been dead for over two thousand years would be proud of??
Nationalist christians Na ci's
These people are absolutely crazy, and they aren't going away. Good people everywhere, no matter their political party, must make it clear that they will not hold their communities hostage.
THE TRUTH IS WE GOT TOO MANY GAY PERVS AND BLACK LIVES MATTER FREEKS RUNNING AROUND LOOSE!!!!
They're religious, what do you expect?
should the library have Hustler Mag or you a banner? Of course there has to be standards, dum dum
You're being chased on CNN by pornographers. Every post you make on this CNN blog will be followed by a porn ad just like above.
TH-cam settings allow you to report this and remove the ad immediately, but it can pop right back up because the pornos are hovering on CNN blog boards with your name/handle attached.
I virtually quit commenting on CNN blogs because of it.
Posting on a dif blog (news agency) and it goes away.
@@DumbAssSpeakingWithMansVoice: At least you tried to make a point.
The entitlement of these jerks is unreal
I worked in a library as a young child it was the best place to learn about every culture and ppl on this planet! Its written knowledge that everyone should learn because its the internet itself. Cult on wide scale of beliefs!
“Where they burn books, they will, in the end, burn human beings too.” An oldie, but goldie.
- Heinrich Heine
They literally have. But the pedophiles they supposedly hate will lead the March to burn outcasts and then take power as their pastors
Read "Farenheit 451."
I mean, to these people, anyone who isn’t white or heteronormative ain’t a person
They burnt books last year.
Honestly this is an insult to the men and women who sacrifice their well-being to protect our liberty and freedom of speech but the people they're defending don't believe and practice these ideals.
IT IS OK TO BURN GAY BOOKS!!!!
They're innocent little kids, I don't get why people dont understand, leave👏the👏kids👏alone👏 LEAVE THEM ALONE.
@@daMillenialTrucker what kids are u talking about ? Because your children are the only ones you have the right to speak of , who are you or anyone else to speak on how other s raise their children.
@@danieltriplett3616 why in the hell do you think these books are banned from that library? In public spaces things should be neutral, if you wanna teach your kids on how to be gender queer then DO IT IN YOUR OWN HOME.
@@daMillenialTrucker who are you to decide what I or anyone else teaches their kids ? If it's a public service then all the public should be included, if you don't want your children to read about a specific subject then it should be up to you to tell them not to , otherwise known as parenting
'Who was Fredrick Douglas'
you have got to be fucking kidding me dude. How dare we have books about a historic figure.
These "activists" "are afraid that people now have the opportunity to understand that not everyone is like them. Different people go through different experiences every single day in this country. And maybe learning about them might create a little more empathy towards those individuals to learn about oppression, to learn about the basic everyday bigotry that these groups of people face.
And let’s be real- these people are using “the children” as an excuse to espouse and promote their bigotry.
The one that really makes me puke is when these people whose life is built around fear and hatred and xenophobia pretend or even convince themselves they care about trans kids. The only caring they do is caring that they exist, and wishing they didn't. Which the kids do arrange for them too often.
Always have always will. Bet they love beating their kids with belts to promote “old school discipline” though. Gotta love “old fashioned Christian values”!
That's ALWAYS the excuse. They don't give two shits about children, except for the sake of numbers to create their White Caliphate (er..."Ethnostate")
This is EXACTLY SAME as the *ISLAMIC fatwa* against *SALMAN RUSHDIE* & his books ... good job, _MURIKAAA_ !
As a librarian, if you don’t like a book, then DONT READ IT! If you don’t want your kids to read a specific book then don’t check it out, parents should have a say on what their children, watch, listen and read but do not take the option for others to read a particular book just because it offends the few.
They can't control what their children watch, listen, and read if there is a public library. That's what these Nazis are so mad about.
Accepting your words takes way too much common sense for these zealots.
They forgot God gives us freewill to do as we wished
Can't fix the stupid & ignorant.. fortunately Karma is only a bitch if you are, ain't no running from Karma. 🙈🙉🙊
Given their worries about sexually charged material, the BIBLE should be banned.
My best friend is probably going to move to Idaho, he said the time is an hour difference from his home in Ventura. I told him it's more like 100 years.
Ironic when many of the books they wanted banned were also banned or heavily censored in Nazi Germany and the USSR
Banning books is a symptom of a fragile and stagnant society, not a strong and thriving one. Love the "read-in."
I so confused, would the real God stand up because Republicans Devils has lots of gods! Thanks to Christianity ✝️ and what a mockery their children will be???????! I am waiting for the next generation and to add fuel ⛽️ to the fire 🔥 we have shortage of teacher that because of history, so which means no history lessons in classroom, no Biblical stories or simple No teachings of the bible! 😂🤣🤣🤣 USA 🇨🇳, USA 🇷🇺, USA 🇦🇫, dumb kids around amen!
Fascist left changes language
Agree. I'd volunteer to guard my nearest municipal library from any mob of book ban bigots.
That's what this country does under any kind of republican leadership. It stagnates, at best.
Fear sales and the new comers bought the belief that books caused people to be gay. SPOILER ALERT. GAYS AND STRAIGHTS HAVE ALWYAS WALKED AMOUNG, THE SMART THE THE LOW IQ HAVE ALWAYS WALK AMOUNG US.. There have always been cults. And cult members just don't see the world as it really is. People who are different than than they causes great fear. in them. There are those among the new comers pushing fear who will take that fear and turn it into a business opportunity. Beware of the man selling the purple KolAid .
And these are the same people so alarmed by “cancel culture.”
Every accusation by a conservative reactionary is really just an admission of guilt. Ninety-nine per cent of all abusers are deeply religious.
Yup
@@EnkiduIX nice way to validate cancel culture.
Conservatives love to project. Everything they say or claim is the exact opposite. The very nature of conservatives is to cancel everything, not for progress, not for values, certainly not for freedom. They cancel to maintain their status quo. Not to mention they are plagiarists - they simply copy and repeat whatever the Dems say about them.
When they say they are "true patriots", they are not. When they say they are "Christians" they are not. When they say they are the party of "family values" and "law and order" they are not. When they say that pornography is bad, they give a free pass to rapists, pedophiles and manchilds who had affairs and grabbed women.
@@EnkiduIX You making up a statistic automatically let's other's know you're not worth listening to.
It has been said, that if your worried about books changing peoples thinking? Your not against books, your against thinking.
I'm guessing this is the first time any of these people have been near a library.
"The secret to freedom is in educating the people, whereas the secret to tyranny is keeping them ignorant."
Robespierre
I’m afraid to live in there 😱🤭🫣
How do you educate a person who doesn't want/like their worldview challenged ?
Everyone of every political persuasion in America is ignorant.
Teach crocodile learn about God is so hard Unbelievable happens
I'm reminded of the thing *trump* said (paraphrasing): I love the uneducated.
This is absolutely sick. It is so heart wrenching to see America being attacked from within like this.
From within? Whytes have been intimidating people like this for over 200 years
@@zazasnruntz7505 I do not know a single person who has done that. You'd be better served if you remember and forgive.
This has been going on since forever. The uneducated are intimidated and feel threatened by knowledge, thus they attack it. A Conservative pinhead can only learn so much before they feel their world is collapsing.
@@LoriCurl I don't know a single murderer I guess murder is a myth
@ Zazasnruntz
Racist
So when the activists showed up and found zero of the 400 books, why didn't they just go back home with peace of mind?
Nobody is going to the library to check out a “pornographic” book. They have a computer in their pocket for that.
Yes, this is true.
"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups."
....with guns.
Very scary, actually.
@wokeness is a sickness Jan. 6th?
@wokeness is a sickness Did BLM threaten libraries? I don’t remember that.
@wokeness is a sickness Did they? I don’t think BLM burnt down any libraries. Strange you felt the need to lie. I suppose lying is all you’ve got when your viewpoint is based in idiocy.
That`s why people need to be armed just in case these far right radical fascist conservatives start they shit. Protect you & your family by any means necessary.
Imagine being so cowardly as to be afraid of a book.
Parents don’t want their K-5th graders having sexual material pushed on them for political purposes. I can’t believe people actually still buy into CNN’s cherry picked narrative 🙄. We don’t want GROOMERS, period
All MAGAd up. Take a morality lesson from 45, that example of the sanctity of marriage.
@@sandburgmartin7947 Actually, most of the call for book banning comes from the left. The most banned authors in America are Steinbeck, Twain, Harper Lee and JK Rowling.
We know it's not that simple. If it were, neither side would care whether books are banned or not
They are more afraid of getting left behind in a less white future.
No wonder that the percentage of people who say they have *"no religious identification"* is slowly but steadily increasing, particularly amongst young people, and well-educated people.
To be fair, this is common amongst most developed countries.
Each and every one should be in front of the court tomorrow. Violation of the right to free speech.
I’m shocked that these people love to harass others when they are not on camera…but when the meetings are next to law enforcement and on camera, oddly, they are no where to be found.
Exactly, they call themselves “patriots”but in reality their a bunch of low-life cowards.
Spineless cowards that want the world to be as spineless as them.
Simple. They're 🐓🐔🐣🐤🐥
@@denisemayosky1955 Thanks but right now I’m less interested in the correction of my grammar and much more interested on pointing out the cowardness and how unpatriotic these people are.
i'm not shocked. it's their standard mode of operation.
Wait, the woman who wants to ban these books is accusing people of……trying to silence her?
Irony is lost on these people.
Their hypocrisy knows no bounds.
She is a crazy demon!
While refusing to speak to the same media she says ignores her!
"There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses."
Ezekiel 23:20
Are they going to ban the bible next?
How is it that we are regressing this fast as a sociey? Its like we're literally right back in the stone ages.
My wife was a school librarian and the closest thing to sexually explicit material that the kids and some teachers, were interested in was the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. I was a farmboy with two older sisters so between open bedroom doors and livestock i knew that Barbie and Ken were not anatomically correct. What century are these book banners living in? Perhaps we need to force pets to wear pants.
Keep people ignorant and incapable of making sound decisions.. sounds like grooming to me.
I hear some people like the uneducated
Exactly what liberals want to do by disallowing any thoughts but liberal thoughts.
@@oldguysrule5895 Funny how they seemed to take 45s comment as an order, not the insult it was.
Funny how a child particularly boys are maybe more likely to be sexually abused in a religious institutions than anywhere else☹️
@@chrisspellman8545 Exactly. That's what makes the CRT cult being forced on our kids in their own schools so pernicious. leftism (progressivism) is a cult like islam. It needs to be stopped.
The people freaking out have never taken their kids to the library.
THE TRUTH IS WE GOT TOO MANY GAY PERVS AND BLACK LIVES MATTER FREEKS RUNNING AROUND LOOSE!!!!
Totally agree
So what?
Nor have they read these books they claim to be evil.
@Just Be I don't know which is dumber. Thinking that there are drag queens in the library, or caring that there are drag queens in the library.
The irony of claiming people are trying to silence you while you are actively pushing for censorship and silencing ideas you don't like.
Bunch of cowards attacking a library smh
Why waste so much time fighting books that aren't even at your library? How about trying this hard to help your neighbors in poverty instead?
That would be the Christian thing to do! But they're "Christian" in words only, not in action. What they're doing.... That's what Jesus would NOT do! Maybe that's the question they should be asking themselves... Instead of "WWJD?" they should ask "WWJND?" and then NOT DO THOSE THINGS! I really don't think Jesus would take a grenade launcher to a library!
Great idea ClassicalKaren. But acting in a truly Christain manner won't show everyone how morally superior these folks believe themselves to be.
I'm sure they spend the rest of their time on good Christian causes, like getting "Roe vs. Wade" overturned-- 'cause saving the fetuses is more important than actually doing anything to save the abused, neglected, unwanted, or starving kids who already exist in their own backyard. Of course, they're only interested in saving the white, Christian, straight babies anyway. All the rest are destined to Hell, so why bother, right?? 😒😒😒
Unfortunately that one guy pointed it out: the books aren't there YET, but they might be one day.
@@Theomite I'd buy them and donate them today if I thought they could get insured.
Banning books is the most unpatriotic move anyone could make. To conform to one thought or idea is unAmerican . It is the complete opposite of freedom.
The DeSantis government is banning books and social studies education here in Florida.
In fact, it sounds like cancel culture which is what such individuals claim to be against. Once they start coming to libraries armed with any guns, police should be arresting them and holding them in custody until they face trial.
@@3baxcb for what crime?
@@shawnharrison9701 Uttering threats for starters. Add the firearms in there and there should be additional charges. Why would anyone be wielding high powered weapons around a library except for resorting to threats of violence? Schools, places of worship, clubs and other places have sadly been on the receiving end of gun-toting individuals for years. It's no less tragic and disturbing that someone is threatening a librarian over books and such individuals who are willing to be wielding such weapons so be held to account before they hurt someone or worse.
What if they came to church armed and said the Bible must go? It will lead to that if not stopped. We have 4 great freedoms. Freedom of Assembliy,Freedom of Religion,Freedom From Want and Freedom From Fear. If we uphold the first two then we need ought worry about having the other two. Freedom of speech comes from Freedom of Assembliy. When it comes to books if a person can read they can think for themselves. If they can think independently then they can be free.
hang on - wait: gay teens have been reading hetero-normative books for decades and not a single one of them has been "turned straight", but these nutters are saying that if a single straight kid reads a "gay book" or even just goes past it on the shelves they'll be become a raging drag queen instantly? I think the book banners have a few screws loose in the reasoning and rationality departments.
I would want to know why each and every book is being banned.
"A cozy relationship between the police department and the Public Library" had me in stitches. Ben Franklin started the idea of public libraries in America as bulwarks against tyranny. Seems like he knew what he was talking about. To take over the country, close the libraries.
Ben Franklin also secretly built the first pizza place in New Jersey and named it Hillary Clinton's Pizzeria.
Think about it.
Sincerely,
Every f*cknut Trumpanzee Q cultist I've ever met
Where I grew up the library was literally in the same building as the county jail.
@@MRuby-qb9bd that’s called bad business planning but the inmates probably got some good literature though.
@@longforgotten4823 To be fair it also contained the court, the sheriff's department, county registrar, public health office and DMV (only on the 4th Thursday of the month, it was a roving DMV). Very rural area.
To take over a country, turn the peoples' minds into mush with the internet and vacuous, "binge-worthy" television.
When media shows up and asks them to expose their view for the whole public they scurry away like rats. Doesn't give you the idea that they know they stand for what is really right.
As a student I volunteered my time at my school library and loved it so much it pains me to see library and caretakers of the library, a place of education, free thought, and knowledge to be shared to all is treated with such disrespect.
Perfect description thank you
Cockroaches.
THE TRUTH IS WE GOT TOO MANY GAY PERVS AND BLACK LIVES MATTER FREEKS RUNNING AROUND LOOSE!!!!
I would do the same as them if I knew the government at a very different idea of what is right. Depicted them as not believing what they preach is not what they are. Many of them of them truly believe they are doing their best.
Christofascists fear the educated.
They rely on ignorance to keep the cult going.
Crazy to see the town I grew up in on CNN, brought back many memories seeing the inside of the library. They definitely need to get the bad books out though.
I genuinely free bad for the communities that have to put up with this kind of stuff. Civil discourse is dead and it is groups like these that have killed it.
Some school boards are banning books in the schools also...some are classics that we all grew up on. We have got to stop giving into the bullies.
We have been far to complacent in our comfort and have allowed darkness to take root. While I may not be Biden’s biggest fan he took the first steps in shinning a light on that darkness in last nights speech. Now it is our responsibility and choice to unite regardless of our difference and peacefully put an end to this with the tools our founding fathers gave us. And perhaps add a few more to safeguard against such in the future given how the world has change since their day. We should be glad we got Trump and not another with a bit more sense in how they went about things…
They banned the Great Gatsby for christ sakes...
@@MM-wj9kw And let's not forget Texas recently banned the bible.
@@evadedenbach1226 One school system put it on a list of books to be reviewed. That's a far cry from "Texas." I live in Texas, and they'd sooner elect Nancy Pelosi as president, than ban the Bible.
There were a lot of parents speaking out at the school board meeting about the bans. Sorta makes me proud.
@@akinnon2000 too much "debauchery"
Wow. These must be some seriously weak, clueless, powerless parents in that redoubt group. I never worried about what BOOKS my kids could find in the library, because I knew my KIDS. Sadly, my son wasn't a big reader. But my daughter read a LOT of books. I could compile a list of her favorites, and there was a decent list of those she didn't like. If you know your kids, and teach your kids, and stay involved in their lives, you don't need to worry much about outside influences--especially not BOOKS!
These parents are surrendering their power and influence to outsiders, assuming that all it takes is a book or two in their child's presence, to turn them gay, make them want transgender reassignment, or cause them to be victimized by sexual predators. Good grief, talk to your kids! Find out what they're reading, and read it yourself. Discuss their books. Ask them questions. Show them your own favorites.
This is what fascism looks like. You know you're in the wrong, when your actions are in line with Hitler.
Isn't there a lot of begatting with underage girls in the Bible?! Not to mention the fundamentalist belief in an actual Adam and Eve who then must have procreated with their own children to create further humans? There's a lot of offensive stuff in the bible I wouldn't want my kids to read. Do they censor those parts of the bible for their kids as 'adults only' reading?
Pretty much what I was thinking. How weak-minded do you have to be to believe that a book will force your mind and behavior to change against your will? And if you think a book can't do that to _you_ but can do it to your children, then _teach your children_ to be strong in the face of manipulative books. It's that simple.
What these people are doing is incredibly lazy parenting _at best,_ insisting that every institution raise their children for them-but only the way the biological parents want them to-and every other person accept that their lives must be reduced in experience because the biological parents want to pretend their belief in God gives them the authority to preach fire and brimstone to people who didn't ask to hear it (which goes against the teaching of Jesus) and brandish items that break the sixth Commandment if actually used (and breaks the second if not).
The ludicrous part is that you _know_ that if someone went to that library meeting and demanded that the Bible and all religious texts be removed because they might indoctrinate kids to religion and negatively impact society by encouraging slavery and incest and so on, these people would scream at the top of their lungs about the First Amendment and how God is Good and how religion never hurt anyone (who didn't deserve it, I guess?). And they would never see the irony of their behavior.
@@anastasiabeaverhausen8220 Heh, I'm a Christian. I've got no patience for hypocrisy. You're absolutely right about underage girls, polygamy, and expecting rape victims to marry their rapist. There's a lot of offense in the Bible. It's historical, and taking it out of history, and expecting people to behave the same way today, is.... problematic.
These nutballs are the reason we need to have separation of church and state. Libraries are for everyone--not just Christians, or kids, or easily offended right-wing snowflakes. Funny, but no one is FORCING their kids to go to the library, and check out books they find offensive, and READ them!
I've heard from many Christians, and they really believe the US was set up as a Christian country. They believe as such, God gives his protection and blessing. Taking that away, feels threatening to them. They feel they need to insure that Christian values stay in the forefront of our government, laws, and lifestyles.
They're wrong. This was NEVER a Christian country. It's in the Constitution. They can argue that the forefathers were all believers, but in the basic principles of the country, they wrote down freedom--not theocracy.
Religious extremists give all of us a bad name. There are some of us out here practicing what Jesus taught, and trying not to turn the world against us. Love, grace, forgiveness, long-suffering, caring for widows and orphans, feeding the hungry, welcoming the foreigner.....all those concepts the nuts seem to have forgotten.
@@thetimekeeper955 You came close to the reason: they believe the christian bible changed their minds and their lives (and most of them haven't even read the thing). So of course their feeble reasoning skills tell them that ANY book can do that. They're all magic! Except for the Quran of course, that's black magic. SMH
@@thetimekeeper955 One thing that isn't talked about in this piece, is .... how did these people learn about all these books they want banned? I mean....they didn't find them in the library themselves. So, SOMEONE fed them the skewed idea that these books were being forced on all the kids, via their local libraries.
Hmmm, I wonder who would do that.....
Didnt some guy in germany ban books and burn them?
Yes and that guy is a role model for the GOP.
I just for the life of me cannot understand people like this. I just do not understand how they are just so WRONG... Just, why?
I worked in a library for about 30 years. This sort of stuff has been going on for all that time, but without the guns. Challenged children's books are generally labelled Parental Advisory, or something like that. So then it is up to them. Most parents don't actually give a shit if their kid takes out a Deadpool DVD. They only get their hackles up if it a kid's book about gay penguins, which is usually labelled Parental Advisory. What I am saying, is that you can never please them, even though they have the option of checking out what books their kids will read. It's called Parental Responsibility.
Out of interest, is "parental advisory" limited only to controversial books or is it also used on books that have genuine reasons for it? To me the term is similar to the PG ratings in films, indicating they're not automatically suitable for young children, so I'm wondering if some poor parents are getting stuck in a situation of not knowing if they should say no to their child borrowing a book, due to consern that it may not be age appropriate, when in fact it's just got a family with 2 dad's in it or whatever. I really hope there's 2 different labeling types to make age appropriate clearly distinguishable from this crap!
@@mehere8038 Nope Just Happily Ignorant and Trying to propagate it!
Actually, PG means Parental Guidance. As in it is up to the parent to decide if their children should watch the movie or not. It does not and never has meant it was for children. G means General as in for everybody.
There is a similar thing with books though far lesser known.
However, regardless of any rating it is the parent's responsibility to actually read the book or watch the movie/show and decide if it is suitable for THEIR children.
In short do not rely on ratings. Actually, read and watch things before you let your children read or watch them. That is just common sense (or at least it use to be) and logical. Stop blaming everyone else. While it is bear impossible to prevent outside manipulations and pressure to affect your children you can minimize it as best as you can and do your best to teach your and raise your children up right.
The real issue is that parents do not actually raise their children anymore. Everyone else and society does. That is why you get ignorant people like in the stupid group in Idaho.
@@mehere8038 No library in the world is going to have any books that are sexually or violently explicit in the Children's Section. The one's that are challenged, are usually about 2 moms, or a girl goes to school where she is the only black person, or a family that has to live in a car because they are homeless, or a kid who has cancer, or a kid dealing with a drunk parent. So they are labelled and kept on a separate shelve so the parents themselves can decide if they want their kids to read them. No kid is going to stumble upon the Marquis De Sade while looking for a cute colourfull book about a talking stuffed bear who likes honey...and is tortured and starved by his owner.
@@Basileus84 that's actually sad then. I'm not a parent but used to work in childcare & vacation care. We would do movies with the vacation care kids after lunch each day, as a sort of rest time. We'd let the kids choose, but only from G & PG, not PG13+ so applying this to books, they would have missed out on any inclusive stuff if it gets uplabled cause of this crap.
I can easily see regular parents missing that shelf completely & missing out on reading with their kids the sort of stuff they want to expose their kids to, to grow them into happy, well adjusted people. I mean a child dying of cancer or living with an abusive parent is a VERY different category to a child living with 2 loving mums! The idea of that shelf is it should be that off that shelf, kids can read it themselves, but on that shelf, the parents can tell their kids that the rule is that the parent will read that book to the child, cause it has concepts in it they may need to talk about or have explained to them. That's really sad to see books with 2 mums, black kids etc go into that category instead of just being books that kids stumble across & grow up exposed to as just a regular part of normal society. We used to intentionally buy books at all childcare centres I worked in, that had representatives of any parts of society that we were lacking, so as to normalise it in the children's eyes & expose them to it. Books with kids in wheelchairs, mixed colours etc etc were something we'd look for to ensure they were exposed to this stuff as "normal" They didn't come out as "special" books, they were on the shelves for kids to read themselves anytime they wanted to! which imo is how it should be! Books about illness, we had a few that we'd sometimes put in the regular bookshelf & sometimes pull, depending on where kids were with that at the time, but we also had a separate book collection for books like that & would pull them out only with parents permission & knowledge, to read to them in supervised ways to help kids cope with going into hospital, or a friend or family member being sick or dying, cause these books could be used to help in the education on this stuff, but it had to be done carefully, in line with what each child's maturity could handle. Books with black kids don't come into that category! If these parents had been exposed to them at a young age, they probably wouldn't have the immaturity issues they are now suffering from!
Who gave these individuals the right to be the "moral police."
God, apparently!
the guns they pointed at you screaming * do what we say or else*.
Their imaginary friend.
Religion
@@anthonyalles1833 Except that the Bible tells them to do no such thing. That's the irony and the hypocrisy.
I promise you there is not a single person that went to school for library science because they wanted to be on the front lines of America's march towards headassery...
we are living in ridiculous times
didn't realize library books were capable of checking themselves out and coming home with you and putting a gun to your head and forcing you to read them
"Where they burn books, they will, in the end, burn people too" Heinrich Heine
THE TRUTH IS WE GOT TOO MANY GAY PERVS AND BLACK LIVES MATTER FREEKS RUNNING AROUND LOOSE!!!!
That Part!! 💯
U fear a book
BAN GOD
More blood has been spilled in NAME of God than any other name
We don’t want political grooming propaganda pushed on elementary school kids
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That these people that (obviously) don’t even visit libraries are actively closing and destroying libraries is the absolute worst part… it’s unconscionable and disgusting.
What are they trying to do? Our county mayor is crazy over the library too. Is it a right wing plot to close libraries?
@@NebjosaMeier -It's a right wing plot to control the choices of everyone. They won't admit it, but that's where the chips fall.
Fahrenheit 451 is becoming a reality. It isn't so much about politics as they make it out to be. It's more about conforming. Conforming to standards that people want. And also sussy amongus imposter.
@@alifelessrock48 OH no.They better ban that book- Fahrenheit 451.
Sounds like Hitler had been resurrected!
This is really depressing
It's so pleasing. The setuping and mastering softs amazing.
The simple fact they refuse to go on recored & be interviewed nor show up at township meetings when it's known cameras will be there. Tells you all you need to know about their true motivations. If you're embarrassed to be seen advocating for a point, you don't really believe it yourself.
They know they are wrong, but are unable to admit it.
I hope the entire nations realizes that dictators and their supporters really are too dumb to face off against the truth and strong democrats. Case in point Donald Trump. Also Hitler who killed himself rather than be accountable.
Same as wearing a white hood.
Fuck'n A
Many people don’t like talking to the media. You say good or bad it will get twisted one way or another
Imagine living in 2022 and thinking The Library is where your kids are going to be "corrupted"...
This is sick. Absolutely sick. It reminds me of an old joke by the French comedian Fernandel about how the people in his village hated Arabs and one day decided to kick out a guy named Hamid. And how in the next day there was no bread in the village, because Hamid was the only bread maker.
This people don’t see how they’re willfully walking themselves back into poverty.
Why isn’t anyone pressing charges
When you're a normal, decent person and you encounter sudden hostility that you do not understand, then chances are good someone is telling lies about you. This is a good example. The library didn't even have the books, but agitators lied to the locals, and now the locals are too humiliated to talk about it.
Merry, do not engage the troll who posted some video link to your comment. Clearly that person is having some sort of breakdown.
@@rodshop5897 The quality of trolls has taken a decidedly downward trend.
@@ronaldsmith2343 - when you get whole extended families of trolls under the bridges, expect some inbreeding.
@@Hippiekinkster Oh noo Mr. Bill (I'm an OG) the family picnic is this weekend. Where is the KY.
@wokeness is a sickness none of these books promote "kiddie fiddling" and the fact you think they do just shows your ignorance, arrogance, lack of knowledge and the fact you probably havnt stepped in a library since you were forced to In middle school...
So it's up to parents what books a library can have on its shelves? If that woman doesn't want to read a book then no one is forcing her. But this is about extremist Christianity so we're not dealing with rational people.
Every religion hates LGBTQ
Some even punish such people by stoning
Blaming a single religion is no good
Exactly!
I find Christian fascists are neo nazis
Christianity is often mentioned by people like you, yet that is hardly the only thing that plays a role in irrational behaviors like this. Political ideologies are far more likely to be an issue.
Yup, the parents job is to pay attention to what books their kids are reading, not try to censor other kids' fare - but - one lady said that deviant sex books were drawing perverts into the library and while they are there they might as well molest a child - these people are simply sick (and bad ignorant)
I wonder how many people actually know Frederick Douglass. Im so glad theres a book that came out about him that is suitable for younger generation to read.
Can we put a fence around their redoubt? I would encourage it so they can be safe.
Did she say the books werent even the library? These people are a threat to this democracy.
Its been that way for a long time. I grew up over there, they have lots of meth and white hoods
This is exactly what Biden was talking about last night. VOTE BLUE up and down ballot.
@@robertstanford1778
Most correct though I’d vote for any whom shows integrity to put forth their oaths of office before self interest regardless if they have a D or an R in front of their name…sadly at this point I see very few Rs willing to do that . The few that have are being purged from the party.
Banning books is only a problem when the right does it I guess. When those on the left banned Dr. Seuss books, burned copies of Harry Potter novels in bonfires and denounced classic children's literature like "Little House on the Prarie" and "Mary Poppins" as racist that didn't bother you.
The books were never in the library. Critical race theory was never taught to students younger than college. There were no trans people bothering anyone in bathrooms.
They just make us issues to get mad about. It is a culture war, not an actual legal battle over something in reality.
How come we never see these people going after the churches for their crimes against children? 🧐
Because child sexual abuse also happens in Christian Nationalist families.
You don't think these are the same people that would try to drive a church flying a rainbow flag banner out of the community?
Because THEY ARE ACCOMPLICES IN THE CHURCHES' CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN. It's no coincidence how many of these cults/sects/whatever build their core around males (or one male) to do with women and girls as they please, because THEY THEMSELVES ARE PEDOPHILES AT THEIR CORE.
This should have been put down with extreme prejudice.
As someone who lived in Idaho for 20 years (moved to New Mexico in 2020), I am horrified at what that state has become. I hope these parents have thier kids forcibly removed because obviously they are unstable and a risk. What would they do to thier poor children if they did come out at gay or transgender?? It's horrifying to think about...... I hope local law enforcement steps up and investigates these "parents".
IDAHO IS FASCISTS!!! GTFO NOW IF you really want "FREEDOM"
The city council woman was my hs English teacher...glad I was taught by someone with common sense
She's great!!!! How lucky you are!!!!
Tell me these people are not Nazis. Unreal how anyone can act this way. They need mental health intervention since they are clearly not right in the head.
yes democrats are nazis
They need a good hard slap..
74% of the U.S. population is suffering a mass psychosis.
They're not Nazis. The Nazis were organized. These people are closer to frustrated zoo chimps than they are to any sort of organized ideology.
Nazis dressed better.
This makes my blood boil, I hate when people (especially librarians) are being verbally threatened and attacked for something as innocent as this and the parents who are the ones who are so hell bent on keeping their kids and family “Pure” act as if though their ways are gonna stick! Do you really think that for a minute that your children or grandchildren aren’t going to rebel against you?? Books aren’t the enemy here, you have the right and freedom to do with what you please in YOUR life (NOT intimate or hurt others), and don’t EVEN stamp “GOD’S NAME” on what your saying to others as if he approves of you threatening people because of what you don’t approve of.
Exactly I wonder why these people feel so threatened about the 400 books that aren't even at this library it kind of screams guilty conscience to me they're probably a bunch of Internet porn watchers. It would be really funny if every one of them had a child that came out of the closet 😂😂
People talk about how cheap it is to buy a big house in places like Idaho, but they dont tell you that you have to deal with ignorant idiots like redoubters and book banners