'Maus,' Nazis and Shylock references make appearances at US Senate book ban hearing
Debate comes as 'parents' rights' groups challenge thousands of books in school libraries, saying that they're not appropriate for children
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Debate comes as 'parents' rights' groups challenge thousands of books in school libraries, saying that they're not appropriate for children
WARNING: GRAPHIC DEPICTIONS OF SEX, VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED During a contentious Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on so-called book bans Tuesday, Sen. John Kennedy, R.-La., grilled a college activist over whether parents should have a say in what books are available in public libraries. After reading two sexually explicit excerpts from controversial LGBTQ+ books that have
School districts that had voted to eliminate school resource officers amid the summer 2020 "defund the police" movement are backtracking and bringing back armed security.
A Capitol Hill hearing over how much control parents should have over what kinds of books their children can access in school saw all manner of references invoked.
Senator John Kennedy read from two library books that turned the Senate Hearing into a Not Safe For Work cringe-fest.