THE FEDERALIST/ Joy Pullman-
This article quotes a discussion of obscene and criminal sex acts.
Refusing to stock pornography for kids in school libraries is comparable to banning black kids from school, MSNBC host Joy Reid argued last weekend, fresh off expressing hatred for some Iowans because of their skin color the week before.
In a debate with Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice, Reid insisted LGBT kids “feel seen” by books about child rape and sex toys, and that’s why taxpayers need to provide pornography to all kids.
Reid complains about parent advocates using the book review website Booklooks.com to get “out-of-context passages from the book” to petition for the books to be removed from school library shelves.
“What is the expertise that you have, and other Moms for Liberty advocates have, to decide that an award-winning book like All Boys Aren’t Blue isn’t appropriate for students to read?” Reid asks.
“What a tragic story of a young man who is anally raped by his adult family member,” Justice responds. “So you have rape, incest, pedophilia. … In what context is a strap-on dildo appropriate for public school? Tell me what context around a strap-on dildo or the rape of a minor child by a teacher — ”
Reid interrupts, derailing Justice’s thought by randomly asking the name of the main character in the book, which has nothing to do with evaluating its quality.
“Why is it your right, or a Moms for Liberty activist’s right, to say that a parent who wants their child to have access to this book, which gives a personal experience of this author, why doesn’t a liberal parent, for instance, or the parent of a LGBTQ kid, why don’t they have a right for their child to just have access to this book?” Reid asks.
When Justice again points out the book depicts “incest, rape, and pedophilia,” Reid interrupts and redirects: “I want you to answer, what is your right to tell a parent who wants their child, who might feel seen by this story, why don’t they have the right, as a parent, to say, ‘My child can have access to this book’?” Continue reading…
