A book about Ruby Bridges, the first Black child to integrate an all-white public elementary school, is “divisive”. A book about Native Americans is “divisive” and “paints white people in negative light”.
A book about seahorses contains too many details about the mating rituals of seahorses. It makes for unintentionally hilarious reading. The moms have been very methodical: they’ve sent the Tennessee department of education a detailed spreadsheet outlining their complaints about the books being foisted on their children. And then they might want to change their name to Moms for Thought Control. I don’t know if any of these moms own a dictionary, but they might want to look up the definition of “liberty”. The latest absurd example of conservative cancel culture comes to us courtesy of Moms for Liberty, a rightwing advocacy group who are trying to dictate what books Tennessee public school kids can read. In which case: silence them immediately and ban their books!
Except, of course, if those people happen to be saying things they don’t agree with.
People should be able to say whatever they like without fear of censorship, conservatives are constantly squealing. As we all know, there is nothing rightwingers love more than free speech and nothing they detest more than “cancel culture”.
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