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Parents have a right to decide which materials are taught to their kids. I know parental rights make some of you uncomfortable, but you’ll just have to find a way to get over it. I won’t allow my young kids to be given literal child porn.
That's a page from Gender Queer. Which is a book for 18 and up. Nobody is trying to give it to young kids you absolute spanner.
People like you screaming about parental rights always forget that parents who don’t want their children taught theocracy or white supremacy are in the majority.
If you actually believe that your child is being handed books with literal child porn, you ought to be contacting the police and FBI immediately, not posting links to it on the fediverse.
Kids have a right to be taught what they need to know as adults even if it is something their parents don't want them to learn.
Kids need to be protected from those who want them to be ignorant, whether it is a parent or a politician.
Is there any limit to that or will every book be banned on the future?
Yes. Because books make you literate. And literate folks don’t vote against their interests nearly as much as illiterate ones
Nobody is being forced to read any of the books you reactionaries are worried about. If you don’t want your crotch goblin reading Genderqueer you’re perfectly within your rights to forbid that but you don’t and shouldn’t have the right to deny someone else’s kid from actually developing their own healthy sexuality.
Wish I could set a remindme! Bot for a decade from now when your kids experiment and hunt down this shit on their own and the fallout from that. Have fun with that one
Also, have you read the Bible? Kid fucking, beastiality and genocide abound. I assume you're cool with that tho
Don't forget the incest committed by the kids of Noah after the flood, and the killing of kids by bears for being kids and making fun of travelers clothes,, or sacrificing children to prove devotion... nothing more comforting for bedtime stories, right?
And your rights end with you and your child. Imposing your puritanical beliefs on society is the antithesis to freedom and violates everyone else's rights. Perhaps you'd be more comfortable living in Iran or some other religious state.
So why give that right wholesale to the government? Isn't it the right of the parents?
Oh wait, I've used logic here and apparently you only have the 'appeal to emotion' chat style unlocked. Sad.
Lol, let me guess hetro teen romance with heavy sexual innuendos is fine for your child?
Romeo and Juliet is a classic!
You’re allowed to not let your kid go to public schools if they’re teaching things you find offensive. You’re welcome to be that weirdo homeschooling kids; or paying to send them to private schools that do all the brainwashing for you.
There’s your parental rights. What you should not be allowed to do is decide what books are available to children-not-your-own.
You're not allowing any kids to be given materials you don't approve of. Do your own damn job and don't press it on others who may disagree with you.
Not only is nobody forcing your kids to do anything, you're the one trying to force everyone else to not be allowed to do what they want. Extremely unamerican.