Texas lawmakers are now
investigating books
in school libraries to essentially
ban anything that they think would
make children uncomfortable.
In reality, it's anything that
would make them uncomfortable.
And yes, we do have a list of
the books that they're trying to
ban from the school libraries.
Again, ban from the school
libraries, they're banning books,
okay?
The canceled culture obsessed group
of conservatives in
this country are going out of their
way to ban very specific books that
don't do anything wrong.
Just happen to,
inform students about things that
make them uncomfortable.
So let me give you the details.
So, here's a copy of the letter
obtained by the Texas tribune
citing, our south lake reporting.
It tells districts to disclose
the existence of any books that
might make students feel discomfort
guilt, anguish.
Or any other form of psychological
distress because of their race or
sex, which is fascinating because
it seems like conservatives in
Texas are trying to turn public
schools into safe spaces, right?
Well, let me give you more.
The letter provides a 16-page list
of about 850 book titles and
asks the district's if they have
these books,
how many copies they have and how
much money they spent on the books.
And so why
these books specifically.
Many of them deal with abortion,
teen pregnancy,
sex education or life experience of
young LGBT people.
Others deal with Black Lives
Matter, or concepts of anti-racism.
So let me give you specific
titles, okay?
Because it'll blow your mind.
The Confessions of Nat Turner,
a 1967 novel by William Styron,
written as a first-person narrative
of an 1831 slave revolt in
Virginia.
Why can't they read that book?
What's wrong with that book?
Let me give you more.
The Cider House Rules John Irving's
1985 novel about a protagonist
whose childhood mentor is
an obstetrician who performs
abortions.
Here's another one.
V for Vendetta, the 1982 graphic
novel by Alan Moore
about a dystopian post apocalyptic
England ruled by a fascist regime,
which became a hit movie in 2005.
Let me give you one more.
They're also banning the Handmaid's
Tale, another dystopian novel
written by Margaret Atwood, about
a post revolution United States
in which women are subjected by
a ruling class of men.
Krause that's the the lawmaker in
Texas who's going through with all
of these bands specifically asks
about a graphic novel form
of the book.
So, remember when Dave Rubin wrote
a book, an awful book that got all
four reviews titled don't burn
this book.
He titled it that way because he
was trying to make a point about
how the right wing is really
persecuted in this country, that
these wide eyed overzealous left.
Artists are going out of their way
to censor the right wing.
But in reality no one cares about
Dave Reubens book.
No one cares to burn it
no one cares to read it because
it's so bad.
But the right wing as always loves
to project because that's what they
want to engage in.
>> Yeah. >> And in Texas to be
clear that is what
they're engaging in.
>> I am as a lover of books
I'm very angry about this I have
fault question are any and I mean
any of the books have won Dr.
Seuss on the list.
>> What, I need to do some in depth
research on that but
I would not be surprised >> If they
are then I'm mad if they're
not that I don't care anymore.
Those are the only books that I
care whether they get published or
not even though I'll
never read them.
In my life I'm a conservative
everybody yeah it's insane as you
said it is you're trying to create
a safe space and doing canceled
culture to create it.
And that tells you all you need to
know about both of those concepts
they are just political.
It's just a narrative to get you to
be okay with certain things and
not others.
None of it actually exists.
>> I'm really excited to hear
Joe Rogan's take on this because he
is someone who's very concerned
with cancelled culture, and
>> Dave Reubens.
>> Yeah, I mean, I'm sure they're
up in arms about this.
Hey, this is literally banning
books within school libraries just
because the books happened to her
the right wings feelings that's it
that's all this is >> Yeah the only
thing I don't really mind is that
they're going to ban Handmaid's
Tale I don't like spoilers.
And I think they want women in
America to be surprised where this
goes, they don't want it to be
ruined ahead of time.
Look like they're banning V
for Vendetta.
It's about this sort of
government being made.
It's so on the nose.
>> So on the nose.
And again, this all ties back to
what we were talking about, they
are not banning these Krause is
not trying to ban V for Vendetta.
Because he stays awake
at night just so worried that some
kids going to read this book.
He proposes banning the book to
get a bunch of right wing parents
fired up over banning the book.
Because the right wing parent,
who spends all their time going to
school board meetings about
Handmaid's Tale is not wondering
why they're underwater on their
mortgage.
And wondering how their kids
are ever going to go to college
that's all it is, it's all about
disarming workers and this is one
way that they do it consistently.