{"id":1550093,"date":"2022-07-12T07:36:47","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T11:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1550093"},"modified":"2022-07-12T08:10:05","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T12:10:05","slug":"the-new-york-times-claims-opposition-to-lgbt-books-in-schools-leading-to-attacks-on-librarians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-york-times-claims-opposition-to-lgbt-books-in-schools-leading-to-attacks-on-librarians\/","title":{"rendered":"The New York Times Claims Opposition to LGBT Books in Schools Leading To Attacks on Librarians"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-new-york-times-claims-opposition-to-lgbt-books-in-schools-leading-to-attacks-on-librarians%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1550093&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p style=\"text-align: left;\">Journalists have been at the forefront of vilifying parents who don\u2019t want their children indoctrinated with LGBT and CRT books, and <em>The New York Times<\/em> just published a new broadside against them by way of reshaping the narrative into one where parents are attacking librarians.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_171335\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-171335\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Downers Grove parents, students clash over removal of LGBTQ graphic novels from school libraries<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/2022\/06\/30\/woke-marvel-digs-even-deeper-with-supertrans-a-support-group-for-trans-kids-with-powers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Woke Marvel Digs Even Deeper With Supertrans, A \u201cSupport Group for Trans Kids with Powers\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">On July 6, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/06\/books\/book-ban-librarians.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Times<\/em> published<\/a> \u201cWith Rising Book Bans, Librarians Have Come Under Attack \u2013 Caustic fights over which books belong on the shelves have put librarians at the center of a bitter and widening culture war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Based on that title, anyone without knowledge of what actually is happening would think that crazy people suddenly decided to initiate an unprovoked offensive against books and libraries. The truth, of course, is the opposite.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-block full\">\n<div class=\"video-player youtube\">[embedded content]<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In the second paragraph of the <em>Times<\/em> article, it lists a couple of titles that parents are opposing. \u201cA parent stood up and denounced two books, \u2018Lawn Boy\u2019 and \u2018Gender Queer,\u2019 calling them pornographic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Immediately after this, the <em>Times<\/em> heaps praise on these titles. \u201cBoth books, award winners with L.G.B.T.Q. characters and frank depictions of sex, have been challenged around the country and were available at the North Hunterdon High School library.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_171336\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-171336\" class=\"wp-image-171336 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2022.07.08-06.37-boundingintocomics-62c7d0c08c313.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"596\" height=\"901\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2022.07.08-06.37-boundingintocomics-62c7d0c08c313.jpg 596w, https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2022.07.08-06.37-boundingintocomics-62c7d0c08c313-198x300.jpg 198w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-171336\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Gov. Ron DeSantis Twitter Account<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The bias of the <em>Times<\/em> is quite obvious here. Still, let\u2019s get an accurate idea of what <em>Lawn Boy<\/em> and <em>Gender Queer<\/em> are about.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In short, the two books are so depraved that Breitbart published this headline about them in November of last year: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/29\/fairfax-county-public-schools-reintroduces-pornographic-pedophilic-material\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cFairfax County Public Schools Reintroduces Pornographic, Pedophilic Material.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"video-block full\">\n<div class=\"video-player youtube\">[embedded content]<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/2022\/05\/07\/disney-to-push-their-pro-grooming-agenda-in-new-disney-channel-film-zombies-3-casting-svp-says-goal-is-to-build-identity-for-children\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Disney To Push Their Pro-Grooming Agenda In New Disney Channel Film Zombies 3, Casting SVP Says Goal Is To \u201cBuild Identity\u201d For Children<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The article says \u201cThe books, <em>Gender Queer: A Memoir<\/em> by Maia Kobabe and <em>Lawn Boy<\/em> by Jonathan Evison, have faced heavy scrutiny from parents who have issues with the graphic depictions of sexual acts in both books, and particularly depictions of sexual acts between adult men and children in <em>Lawn Boy<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Is it fair to describe objections to those books as an attack on librarians? Other books the <em>Times<\/em> lists as people objecting to include <em>How to Be an Antiracist<\/em> by Ibram X. Kendi and <em>Between the World and Me<\/em> by Ta-Nehisi Coates.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_171337\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-171337\" class=\"wp-image-171337 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2022.07.08-06.39-boundingintocomics-62c7d1131d404.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"533\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2022.07.08-06.39-boundingintocomics-62c7d1131d404.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2022.07.08-06.39-boundingintocomics-62c7d1131d404-300x300-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2022.07.08-06.39-boundingintocomics-62c7d1131d404-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2022.07.08-06.39-boundingintocomics-62c7d1131d404-125x125.jpg 125w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-171337\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: @buttonslives Twitter Account<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The attempt to re-frame the fight against LGBT and CRT indoctrination into a narrative of parents attacking librarians is not surprising. In fact, portraying opposition to the progressive agenda as \u201ccensorship\u201d or an \u201cattack\u201d is a common tactic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For instance, a quick use of the Brave search engine using the term \u201cban conservative books\u201d returns a plethora of far-left headlines proclaiming that conservatives want to ban books. Not only are these headlines and associated articles wrong, but the exact opposite is true.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-block full\">\n<div class=\"video-player youtube\">[embedded content]<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/2022\/07\/04\/disney-shamelessly-pushes-identity-politics-in-recently-released-big-hero-6-spin-off-series-baymax\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Disney Shamelessly Pushes Identity Politics In Recently Released Big Hero 6 Spin-Off Series Baymax!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Searching the Brave search engine with \u201cbanned conservative book\u201d returns some similar results as \u201cban conservative books.\u201d Yet it also includes some fascinatingly different results\u2014ones that show just how much progressives enjoy banning books and other topics they find distasteful.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Those results include progressives attempting to ban works by Shakespeare and Chaucer, Ann Coulter and Ronald Reagan, and books depicting Islam and transgenderism in a less than favorable light. It also includes novels such as <em>To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em> and <em>Adventures of Huckleberry Finn<\/em>, and so forth. Even <em>The New York Times<\/em> article begrudgingly admits\u2014in the 12th paragraph\u2014that progressives want to ban books they don\u2019t like.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_171338\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-171338\" class=\"wp-image-171338 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2022.07.08-06.40-boundingintocomics-62c7d155e9489.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"591\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2022.07.08-06.40-boundingintocomics-62c7d155e9489.jpg 591w, https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2022.07.08-06.40-boundingintocomics-62c7d155e9489-300x177.jpg 300w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-171338\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: @PaulEmbery Twitter Account<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But progressives don\u2019t just stop with books. They ban people from being able to use YouTube, PayPal, banks, and more; they attack the Founding Fathers and school mascots, and even the history of America.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">They even tear down our statues and monuments. They ban and destroy everything they can, and they\u2019re all quite proud about the cultural destruction that ensues, because it\u2019s the goal. Indeed, anyone who fails to praise their efforts risks facing their wrath.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-block full\">\n<div class=\"video-player youtube\">[embedded content]<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ultimately, <em>The New York Times<\/em> launching another attack against parents who don\u2019t want their children being indoctrinated with LGBT and CRT books is not surprising, and neither is the attempt to re-frame the narrative into one of parents leading an attack on librarians.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In fact, the only really noteworthy thing about it at all is that there are still people who continue to treat The Gray Lady as anything other than the hostile rag that it is.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>NEXT: <a href=\"https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/2022\/07\/04\/daily-beast-freaks-out-over-the-terminal-list-an-unhinged-right-wing-revenge-fantasy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Daily Beast Freaks Out Over The Terminal List, Calls It An \u201cUnhinged Right-Wing Revenge Fantasy\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalists have been at the forefront of vilifying parents who don\u2019t want their children indoctrinated with LGBT and CRT books, and The New York Times just published a new broadside<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1550217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1550093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1550093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1550217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1550093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1550093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1550093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}