• cmoney@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Honestly what do these people think happens to someone who reads a book? Reading books seems like the least threatening way to get information, I mean you can stop reading the book at any time you feel like.

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      They’re afraid kids will pick up the idea that some people being LGBTQ is just a normal part of life.

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      1 year ago

      They get ideas.

      Which is why these idiots only want people reading their book.

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        Which is why these idiots only want people reading their book.

        Any time they actually say something like that, I start quoting from Exodus (“Slay every man his brother, and every man his neighbor and every man his companion”) or Ezekiel (“There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses”) or Psalm 137 (“Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones”) or the Song of Solomon (just like, most of it - it’s basically a lengthy pornographic poem in the middle of the Bible).

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      From the people who love to say “it’s just words, words can’t hurt you” here comes “books and words are super dangerous and needs to be banned!”

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      Butbutbut, it’s an “obscene” LGBTQ+ book! It even has a blowjob in it just over halfway through. Admittedly one where the receiver is wearing a strap on, and they decide it’s not for them in the next panel, but those two panels are the ones every right winger angry about that particular comic tends to point to as why it’s not appropriate for middle school kids.

      Because they’d have to you know actually **read **it to have any further opinion on it, and they’d be hard pressed to find something objectionable about it that doesn’t make them look like an idiot or bigot for objecting.