Much like the intentionally mislabeled ‘Don’t Say Gay’ legislation passed by the Florida legislature last year, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ recent attempt to shield elementary students from sexually explicit material is also being dishonestly attacked.
Opponents are labeling it a ‘book ban’, words meant to elicit images of bygone authoritarian regimes bent on controlling information and preventing ideas from reaching the masses. It’s been a successful propaganda campaign in some regard as the nomenclature has caught on in media circles when describing what’s happening in Florida school libraries and classrooms.
The truth, of course, is that DeSantis isn’t banning anything but simply seeking to ensure that children are not exposed to explicit material at inappropriately young ages. You wouldn’t think this would even be a question but in the current society with the current woke mob running school boards and forcing sexuality of all kinds on kindergartners, someone has to stand up for moral decency and protect childhood innocence.
In a response to the ‘book ban’ allegations, DeSantis made an intentionally provocative and shrewd move. He held a live video presser denouncing the “hoax” of empty library shelves and then proceeded to provide examples of the material being removed:
Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis began a press conference on Wednesday by playing a shocking video showing sexually explicit content from books found in the Sunshine State’s public schools — forcing at least one local news channel to cut away due to the graphic material.
The books featured in the five-minute-long video included depictions of minors engaging in interactions so graphic that Twitter briefly slapped a sensitive content label on clips making the rounds on the social media platform.
Tampa-based WFLA-TV also dropped its live feed of the presser, with reporter Mahsa Saeidi explaining on Twitter: “I don’t show sexually explicit content.”
DeSantis held the presser — which he dubbed “Exposing the Book Ban Hoax” — to highlight tomes that the governor says violate Florida’s curriculum standards, as well as counter claims that his restrictions were unjustified.
Here’s a local news clip that provides a pretty evenhanded look at DeSantis’ press conference:
The material shown during the press conference was too graphic for television and some local media outlets cut their live stream. Clips of the event on various social media platforms were slapped with “sensitive content” labels due to the sexually explicit nature of the material. If you want some examples of the content, Hot Air has some links but I’m not touching it here.
The press conference was a slam dunk. If this material is too inappropriate for television or even the wilds of the internet, why does anyone think it’s ok for a seven-year-old to be viewing it? I can’t even show you the images in this post or this website would be demonetized and labeled as containing some kind of child p-rn.
In other words, similar to the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill, parents and reasonable people are supportive of removing this kind of trash from elementary school libraries and leaving it for parents to decide if they want to supply this type of material on their own.
It’s a similar technique that many parents have engaged in at school board meetings when confronting the same issue in other parts of the country. Reading and showing inappropriate material found in school libraries to the adults in charge often leaves no excuse for why this kind of explicit material is being given to young children. There is no other explanation other than to intentionally sexualize and groom elementary-age kids into accepting or believing that aberrant sexual behavior is to be applauded and accepted.
If opponents of protecting young children from inappropriate sexual material are called “book banners,” then so be it. At least someone is standing up for moral decency. Furthermore, nobody is “banning” books from being published or curtailing your right as a parent to buy them and give them to your kids. The point is to remove material that’s blatantly questionable from being readily available in a school library when most parents wouldn’t want that garbage anywhere near their kids.
This is another victory for DeSantis against the woke mob gunning to use public schools as a way to control and infiltrate the minds of children with left-wing propaganda.
In battle after battle, DeSantis is not afraid to rub their faces in their own filth and make his point by exposing the true details, as gruesome as they are.
Sunshine is the greatest disinfectant and luckily there’s plenty of it in Florida.
