Speaker 1: We have seen over the last four years, decade, 15 years almost pick pick your
timeframe.
Much of the American right wing riddled with projection projection where they claim the
left is doing that, which they are actually doing so.
One example is the right loves to say we are for free speech and the left is against free
speech.
And in reality, it's often the truth that the right is for free speech only in their
very narrow view.
For as long as it's convenient to them and then they are very quickly against it, they
don't care about free speech once it's no longer convenient to them.
Social media regulation is a great example of this.
As soon as the lion's share of COVID disinformation is coming from the right, they're no longer
OK.
Letting Twitter or YouTube or Facebook decide what's OK on their platform.
They want to mandate that these platforms allow COVID disinformation.
Now, on the other side of that, they claim to be against business regulation.
That's a principle we are against regulating businesses until Twitter is banning the people
they want to ban from Twitter.
And all of a sudden they say, we need to regulate Twitter to force them to allow certain speech.
You guys understand this concept.
The principle is abandoned as soon as it's inconvenient.
So along these lines, there is this topic of of books and banning books, and they claim
the left wants to ban books that are inconvenient to them.
That being said, I've heard nothing about wanting to ban Bobby Kennedy Jr's anti-vaccine
anti Dr. Fauci book or whatever other book what we want and speaking for myself, I want
to educate people so they never fall for buying these dumb books in the first place.
But this is not about me, because now there's a rash of right wingers wanting to ban and
in some cases succeeding at banning all sorts of books from all over the place, often under
the guise of protecting kids.
That's the explanation that they will often give a few examples of this.
A Tennessee school board has voted unanimously to ban the Pulitzer Prize winning book.
Now this is about the Holocaust in cartoon form.
Some of you emailed me about this.
They want to ban it from their eighth grade curriculum.
They say it has objectionable language and a nudity cartoon nudity, of course, and there
similar campaigns underway in all sorts of other districts in more than 30 states.
At this point, state line has been investigating this, and they will often say these books
are pornographic merely because they depict an LGBTQ experience.
Sometimes a black character with an LGBTQ experience.
Huffington Post HuffPost Now it's called reports that in Texas, the Republican governor, Greg
Abbott.
That is sort of taking advantage of this effort to pull, quote, pornographic or obscene books
from school libraries after Republican Representative Matt Krauss circulated a list of 800 books
that he believes crosses the line, and the vast majority of these books were written
by women or people of color or LGBTQ writers, according to the Dallas Morning News.
So consider how many of their own supposed principles they are violating.
Here they are for free speech, but they've got a long list of books that they want to
ban.
They are for doing what's best for people, yet.
They're not letting education experts, the teachers decide, Is this book a good teaching
tool for my students or not?
They are deciding from above the elected officials, that is, and the reasons that they give for
banning most of these books should actually apply to the Bible.
But of course, the Bible is always OK.
Murder in the Bible, incest, genocide, sexual content.
It's all in the Bible, but the Bible is beyond reproach.
That's a sacred cow.
So putting all of this aside, a great way to get kids interested in a lot of these books
is to ban them.
I mean, I mean, I I'm against the book banning on principle, of course, but I also recognize
that banning these books might get kids interested in the books as well.
The urge to do something you're not supposed to do can sort of end up being like an adrenaline
adrenaline rush.
But that being said, many of these books can easily be read online, but it is again an
example of it's really one of the major stories of conservatives.
It's not even conservatism of reactionary, right?
Thinking of the last era of this era, which is our prince.
Nothing is more important than our principles.
Of course, our principles are sacred until the outcome of those principles is inconvenient
when it comes to speech, when it comes to censorship, when it comes to regulation, when
it comes to elections at the end of the day.
And this is just the latest example.
Let me know if this is going on in your state, in your locality.
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