Conservatives Find an Unlikely Ally To Ban Books

For more than a year, right-wing Republicans have been fighting to remove books from public school libraries that include anything they find inappropriate – from LGBTQ content to critical race theory. But in Dearborn, Michigan, they've forged an unlikely alliance – with a group of conservative Muslims. Vegas Tenold reports for Vice News.

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[scottmann]

These parents would be surprised at what their children are exposed to on the internet and social media. But that would require real parenting

[christopherhitchens]

How is it an unlikely ally? Conservative Christians and Conservative Muslims? They agree on many things

[oceanstaiga]

Here in Germany for me reading a book on drug addicted kids in Berlin was mandatory. It’s a famous book. No drug prevention class opened my eyes as much as that book did to hear a real life first hand account. I never touched drugs and I credit that book highly for it.

[mizzysparrots]

Could you imagine if they took bullying as deeply as they are taking this book ban

[rosejustice]

Apparently none of these people remember what being a teen was like. I grew up in the late 70s/early 80s; my friends and I all thought about sex, talked about sex, and had questions about sex. Most of us graduated high school still virgins despite having books like Judy Blume’s *Forever* in our library. Stop trying to turn your kids’ lives into something that never existed 40 years ago!

[franklyqueso]

"I don't have kids and I didn't read the book but I am going to go to a bunch of dumb meetings and make them even dumber!"

[terrencejoesph]

As soon as I heard “ kids going against their parents wishes, ” I knew this was just all about what the parents want 😂😂😂

[CortexNewsService]

Do they really think these books turn kids gay? How? "These characters sturggled and were harassed for being gay. I wanna be like that!" If your kid comes out after reading the book, they were already gay. All the book does is give them the words to express it. That is all.

[joshuaallen]

When the guy said "Oh i dont have any kids" LMFAOOOO sir what are you doing hanging out at school board meetings when you are not in school and have no children

[amisraelichai]

What I don't get about this whole debate, is why even bother, most of students read books from their phones/kindles/ipads. Trust me nobody would ban Kindle.

[shelbyliebler-kukuk]

They should be concerned to what their children say in the hallways at school.

They should be concerned with the fact that their children aren’t even picking up books.

They should be concerned with their internet search history.

They shouldn’t be concerned with a book that was never checked out.

[sneer]

It's almost like they are on the same side politically and always have been.

[zytrik]

The guy worried about the books his non-existent children read almost got me 🙌

[heinrichmuller]

by-far the funniest take away from this, at least for myself, is that the books are still gonna be available, you can still buy them but now that they are trying to be banned in school you'll see students actively searching for them _because_ they are banned.
*how hilariously funny*

[patrickdallaire]

I don't know if they still have it but my french-canadian catholic high school, as part of the curriculum we read an extremely violent revenge fiction novel called Les Sept Jours du Talion by Patrick Sénécal. It's about a father kidnapping and torturing the murderer/rapist of his ~8 year old daughter for 7 days before murdering him. From electroshock to mutilatation to the face, genitals, anus, etc. Naturally, this was very disturbing for some readers. Still, the book doesn't really condone what the main character is doing. Although many side-characters approve of what our main character is likely doing (people know about the kidnapping), we also follow the detective trying to stop this in favor of proper justice. Even the parent of another child victim questions what our main character is doing. Clearly, what he is doing, doesn't make our main character happier either; his daughter is still dead, on top of him now arguably a different kind of monster. In class, we got to talk about morality, when does a man become a "monster", etc. To this day, I haven't heard about anyone in our age group becoming a murderer. Go figure.

[brt]

7:50 "We have filed a lawsuit against the school under the GUISE of concerned parents..." Gotta love those Freudian slips.

[BizzeeB]

Because the best, most successful way to get kids to stop doing something has always been to tell them they can't do it.

[mattd]

It makes me laugh when they think banning books will stop kids from reading them. They obviously don't understand just how easy it is to find things on the internet.

[johnmoore]

Wait until these parents hear about the internet...

[OneTheBlue]

This is probably the first time I have heard a reporter talk directly about drinking c*m during an interview.