It’s still a free country. If you aren’t teaching your children how to filter crap then it’s your fault.
At the same time it is important to pressure your library to provide readings with an alternate point of view.
Libraries don’t feel pressure, they’ll just get worse and worse. They should not be publicly funded.
“It’s still a free country. If you aren’t teaching your children how to filter crap then it’s your fault.”
Hey, those are PUBLIC funds going to buy those books.
If someone wants to spend their money on this crap for their teen-agers, that’s another discussion, but there is no reason for public funds to ever be used for this type of smut.
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I was just thinking about this the other day. When I was a kid (50s through mid 60s) I practically lived at the library. I moved a lot, and every school and public library would become well known to me. I read biographies, classics and books written for "middle aged" children and adolescents. The books I read might as well have come from the 1200s compared to the vile poison kids are now exposed to. Even in the 1980s when I home schooled my and some other peoples' children, I could not believe how degraded children's "literature" had become. For those who say that it's up to parents to protect their children from filth that degrades morals and ruins innocence, I reply that it is impossible unless the parent accompanies the child everywhere they go like a jailer, or homeschools; unless they can find a really good private school.
Another point is that childrens' minds are easily corrupted by filth - meaning sexually explicit material, or books that promote leftist garbage, rebellion against parents and religion, and so on.
The need to protect children from such material was a common cultural understanding a couple of generations ago. Now it's "Toss them into the fire as soon as possible".
Licentiousness in the false name of "freedom" is liberaltarianism at its worst. The Constitution was never meant to protect obscene or pornographic material.