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Banned Books Week looks more like Porn for Kids Week
Fox News
Banned Books Week is a marketing campaign pretending to be a protest. Nine out of the Most Challenged Books are “considered to be sexually explicit.”
Nicole Solas is a senior fellow with Independent Women's Forum Education Freedom Center and a Rhode Island mother.
The most challenged book, Gender Queer, is a graphic comic book-style autobiography by Maia Kobabe containing cartoon images of children performing oral sex, numerous penises, pedophilia, masturbation while driving, and "bonding with friends over erotic gay fanfiction." Although these images sound objectively sexually explicit, the ALA still pouts that these images are merely "considered" to be sexually explicit, presumably by pesky parents protecting their children from the trauma of pornography.
According to the ALA, libraries make "informed choices" about which books to include in (or exclude from) their collections by using a selection criteria that includes "appropriateness to the age and level of the user." Books in school libraries should "be appropriate for the subject area and for the age, emotional development, ability level, learning styles, and social, emotional, and intellectual development of the students for whom the materials are selected."