“Conservative furor over what is taught in public schools reached a fever pitch in Texas on Wednesday, as Republican Gov. Greg Abbott announced a criminal probe into what he called ‘pornography’ in school libraries, his third directive on the matter this month,” the AP reports. “Abbott released two previous letters this month decrying the availability of ‘pornography’ in school libraries.” Among the books cited as possibly pornographic are “Lawn Boy,” which refers to oral sex between boys, and “Losing the Girl,” which features LGBTQ characters. Texas state lawmakers last summer banned public schools from teaching critical race theory, a decades-old academic theory taught on some college campuses. In addition to a call to remove books deemed pornographic, Texas conservatives have also moved to ban books that deal with race and gender. Since then, school board meetings have grown heated across the country, including the politically mixed suburbs of Texas’ largest cities, as conservative parents attempt to challenge and remove books they claim are critical race theory or obscene.
So Texas won’t allow a book about lesbian girls but requires a book that proves the Holocaust didn’t happen.
Vladimir approves "Lolita, IT, Oedipus Rex, and American History X to remain on the shelves"__said Abbott
A new Monmouth poll finds that 43% of Republicans oppose the teaching of historical racism in public schools.
“A Texas school district pre-emptively pulled more than 400 books from its libraries for review following an inquiry from a Republican state lawmaker,” NBC News reports. The school district said in a statement that it was reviewing the books “out of an abundance of caution” to “ensure they did not have any obscene or vulgar material in them.”
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