Radical left teachers ok with gay porn in schools, yet want to ban "To Kill a Mockingbird"

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MUKILTEO, WA- Much has been made about alleged “book bans” being perpetrated by the right. Most of those “book bans” are to ban pornographic books from schools.

This has been fought by progressive teachers, who are trying to indoctrinate children in leftist ideology, such as LBTBQ and trans issues. There are some books worthy of banning, however. The following is not one of them. 

The New York Post reports progressive teachers in Washington State are trying to prohibit Harper Lee’s iconic novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” from being assigned in classrooms to “protect” students. 

The book, which won a Pulitzer Prize, follows a young girl growing up in the American South during the Great Depression, whose father is defending a black man unjustly accused of raping a white woman. The story explores both legal and physical confrontations that take place. 

According to the Washington Post, teachers in the state’s Mukilteo School District are fighting to remove the books to “protect students from a book they saw as outdated and harmful.” In other words, reporting on the history of the United States needs to be hidden. And it is all of four teachers who are offended by the book. 

The Washington Post reports the four “launched a years-long quest to prohibit any teacher in the largely liberal Mukilteo School District from assigning ‘Mockingbird.’ And it started with a formal book challenge in late 2021–the first in 20 years, and the first ever to come from teachers.” 

Meanwhile, teachers in most liberal school districts have no problem assigning pornographic LGBTQ books such as “Lawn Boy” and “This Book is Gay,” among many others. 

“To Kill a Mockingbird centers on whiteness,” the snowflake teachers wrote in their formal challenge. They claim the book “presents a barrier to understanding and celebrating an authentic black point of view in Civil Rights era literature and should be removed.” 

A committee decided to remove the book from the ninth-grade required reading list for the district while keeping it on the approved novels list, a decision that was ultimately approved by the school board. 

That wasn’t enough for the leftist teachers, however, who wanted the book eliminated completely. 

“Each said it’s a good thing all freshmen no longer have to read the book,” The Post wrote. “Each said they think students will be harmed because the book remains a teaching option.” 

The Post noted most battles over books tend to come from the right; however, in this case, our contingent of snowflake “educators” believe the cause is “necessary and urgent.” 

“Around the country, book challengers mostly came from the right. But in Mukilteo, the progressive teachers who complained about the novel saw themselves as part of an urgent national reckoning with racism, a necessary reconsideration of what we value, teach, and memorialize following the killing of George Floyd,” The Post wrote.

“They weren’t asking to pull the book from the library–just to stop forcing it on students. They believed they were protecting children.” [Note: The autopsy on Floyd said he died of an overdose of fentanyl and meth. There were no signs of any type of trauma on his neck, as was alleged. Despite that, four Minneapolis officers were convicted in his death.]

As expected, conservatives seized on the hypocrisy of our ignorant educators, with many pointing out, as we did, that conservatives are trying to restrict pornography in schools. 

“Liberals are banning ‘To Kill a Mockingbird.’ Conservatives are restricting pornography. We are not the same,” wrote Chris Rufo, a longtime critic of far-left radicalism on “X.” 

Meanwhile, the 1776 Project PAC wrote: “When left-wing teachers ban classic novels like To Kill a Mockingbird, they get praised by the media.” 

“Getting rid of gay porn is ‘banning books, ’ but actually banning a classic novel like To Kill a Mockingbird is ‘protecting students,’ wrote Greg Price of the State Freedom Caucus Network. 

“Is this a book ban? Please advise,” wrote Stephen L. Miller, contributing editor to The Spectator. 

“Just think about the absurd left-wing logic here: Parents opposed to actual pornography in school libraries want to ‘ban books,’ but it’s ‘protecting students from outdated and harmful’ material if they ban them from reading To Kill a Mockingbird,” wrote Texas Youth Summit founder Christian Collins.