ASU Banned Books Event
Get at the children through books
ASU Humanities Week advertises an event about banned books. It mentions a resurgence of book banning in the United States. Since there are more book publishers than ever and more access to books about any subject than at any time in human history, what do they mean by saying books are being banned? They are trying to use sensational wording to get attention.
They seem to be confusing banning a book with a state government not paying to use a book in a classroom. Reflect on how odd it is to define that as banning a book. It means that every book not used in a public education classroom is banned by that state. Clearly, that is not what it means to ban a book.
They also said the quiet part out loud and told us their strategy: get to the children through children’s books. Rather than go through the rigors of academic debate, scholars are instead writing children’s books to get their theories into the classrooms and libraries of young people.
It is also not banning a book for a parent to say, “I don’t want my children reading that material.” This is why they plan to get around parents by forcing these books into public schools or public libraries. They want to educate your children and they don’t care if you disagree with what they are teaching.
Parents, this is already what they are doing to our college-age children. Now, they want to do this to elementary school children. They are open about it.
