A social media account for MSNBC host Joy Reid proved why sexually explicit materials are not acceptable in any environment at any time.
On Friday, Reid debated Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice over what Reid called "book bans," referring to the movement of parents demanding that sexually explicit and woke books be removed from school libraries.
At one point during the frustrating interview — in which Reid repeatedly interrupted Justice and barely allowed her to answer questions or make rebuttals — Reid invoked "All Boys Aren't Blue," a controversial book replete with abusive and sexually explicit material. Reid claimed that parents are taking "out-of-context" passages from the book to make their removal demands and asserted that such parents do not hold sufficient "expertise" to make clams about the book.
"What is the expertise that you have and other Moms for Liberty advocates have to decide that a book, an award-winning book like 'All Boys Aren't Blue,' isn't appropriate for students read?" Reid asked.
"What a tragic story of a young man who is anally raped by his adult family members. So you have incest, rape, pedophilia," Justice responded. "In what context is a strap-on dildo acceptable for public school? That's my question to you.
"Tell me what context around a strap-on dildo or the rape of a minor child by a teacher —" she continued when Reid interrupted her.
The MSNBC host tried to discredit Justice by asking her what the main character's name is in "All Boy's Aren't Blue," a question Justice answered correctly.
Reid, however, never answered Justice's question but expressed offense that Justice would dare make an inquiry of her.
"What I am saying to you is you are not an expert in this book," Reid later said.
"I don't have to be an expert to know that dildos are not appropriate for public school, I mean, come on. Let's get real," Justice shot back.
The X account for Reid's show, "The ReidOut," later posted the exchange about "All Boy's Aren't Blue."
Ironically, the post censored the phrase "strap-on dildo" — instead writing "XXXXX-XX-XXXXX" — thus proving Justice's argument that groups of people, organizations, and society make concerted decisions that some words and content are not appropriate for any and every circumstance.
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"If Joy Reid isn't comfortable writing "strap-on dildo" on X, why does she demand that it be made available to children in public schools?" activist Christopher Rufo noted.
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California Governor Gavin Newsom and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis squared off in a debate last night, and one thing was crystal clear: the two could not be more diametrically opposed on every single political issue.
Unsurprisingly, one subject that was broached was public education — what it should include and what it should not include.
Florida has been very open about rejecting the inclusion of gender ideology in its school curriculums, believing it is not the role of the school but rather of parents to determine how children should be taught in matters such as sexual orientation, gender ideology, etc.
“The role of the school is to educate kids, not indoctrinate kids,” DeSantis said, “and what we've said in Florida is it's inappropriate to tell a kindergartener that their gender is a choice; it's inappropriate to tell a second grader that they may have been born in the wrong body.”
“Now California has that–they want to have that injected into the elementary schools,” he continued, pulling out an excerpt from a book commonly found in California elementary schools called “Gender Queer.”
Holding the page up to the camera, DeSantis revealed several blurred out pornographic images (images that he says “would not be able to be put on air”) that are featured in this “children’s” book.
Newsom’s face when DeSantis showcases the graphic images is a combination of haughty and perturbed as he looks down at his feet.
“When people on the left say that somehow you're banning books by removing this from a young kid's classroom — no, this is not age appropriate, and so we're going to stand for the rights of parents,” DeSantis continued, adding that he hopes to do this “nationwide.”
“I don't think you can have a situation where some states just trample on the rights of parents. Parents have a fundamental right to direct the education and upbringing of their kids.”
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The Wall Street Journal hopped on the Democrat conspiracy train by pushing the baseless claim that conservatives are 'banning' books.
After discovering pornographic material in the children's section, a small group of parents took on the entire city council and won.
Maybe there is such a thing as a 'book ban' these days — but not on the books you've been told.
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