When officials cannot justify a stance, they may resort to creating “word salads” to trick their constituents into denial and blindness. This is precisely the case with democrats and their infamous book banning campaign to trick parents into thinking children should have access to all literature. But have they (the democrats) told you what they would like to protect? Let me help you out. It is pornographic material that outside of the school and library system, any adult would be arrested for sharing with minors; in short it is called corruption of a minor. You read that correctly and I’ll state it again. It is material that could be used by groomers to create hyper-sexualized children, and THAT is illegal at the federal level. Yet, if you survey your local school library systems, these books are available to your children in middle school and high school. From a psychological perspective, everything a child is exposed to is neurologically implanted and becomes permanent thought. The younger the child, the larger the impact.
A child sexually abused at age three to 12, changes their thought patterns and behaviors forever. If you go back through the stages of psychosexual identity development, a child’s sexual identity if formed though early experiences, kept in the psyche, long before the child can talk or express any logic. According to Freud, sexual identity is most focused between the ages of three and five. According to psychcentral, in childhood, our brains are very plastic (meaning higher neuroplasticity). The connections made between different parts of the brain change in strength and are based on experiences of the world and who they are within it. When a child experiences trauma, it activates the amygdala, or the pathway to emotional regulation.
The next portion of the brain to activate is the hypothalamus, or the place responsible for what most people would regularly identify as the fight or flight response. This means that a child will detect threats more easily which leads to higher level of stress, anxiety, and depression. From various studies, you can easily extrapolate that all experiences affect brain development. So anything a child is exposed to becomes part of their long term functioning… and that means until the age of 25 where your brain becomes an adult; thinking and reason shifts to adulthood.
Activation of the sympathetic nervous system also means immune system dysregulation and increased inflammatory responses. So essentially, we are talking about a lifetime of multiple medical issues. Of course, what is trauma? Reading the books that everyone from librarians to legislators are hell bent to keep in school and available to children made me physically ill. Have you actually seen the images and read the material? If not and you are one of these parents that thinks no book should be banned, this is your moment to go to the source and become informed. Your representatives are lying to you. Under the guise of “equitable access to books” and claims that conservatives are against black and LGBTQ authors, they are allowing images that permanently affect the brain and create the power of suggestion to a bunch of hormonal preteens and teenagers. Sounds like an intelligent stance to me. What is more confusing is how the democrats do not think that LGBTQ or black authors have the ability to write books that are not pornographic. Apparently, they missed that isle in the library or local books store.
Pennsylvania seems to be leading the cause in some ways but lagging in others. The democrats are fighting hard to take the power out of the local school districts and put them into bigger organizations like the PSLA or Pennsylvania School Library Association (see PA SB 926). Finding limited testifiers and being in a room with more objectors than people receptive to their concepts, you think they’d get the hint. In fact, during the recent hearing regarding these “literary works,” democrat committee leaders prohibited public comment and prevented alternative voices from having props (through threat of police) while their own testifiers were more than welcome to bring their props. If there is no problem or issue with the books in question, why wouldn’t you want EVERYONE to see them? Dear voters… you are being set up.
These democrats are continuing the same antics as always. According to them, if you love your child and believe that the parent should be the parent, then you must be racist or a bigot. They have no clear argument. Even the lawyer from the educational law center who testified reverts back to the first amendment. But the First Amendment is not a blanket statement (and I strongly believe in the first amendment). It provides that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peacefully to assemble, and to petition the Government a redress of grievances.” In once sense, yes, the First Amendment protects pornography, aka erotic material. However, the Supreme Court has held that it does not protect two types; obscenity (which has its own subset of conditions) and child pornography.
The Miller test is used to determine obscenity. This test stems from Miller v. California (1973) and is outlined by the Free Speech Center; “ (1) whether the average person applying contemporary community standards would find the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest; (2) whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law; and (3) whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.” But, of course, there again, it was directed towards adults.
Even pornography that is not considered obscene (yes, that exists by definition) and therefore not banned goes out of its way to prevent it from being put into the hands of a child by regulating the time, place, and manner of distribution. I guess the pictures from the books that keep getting banned from the television, news, legislative hearings, and any other outlet are okay for your children.
In short, we were at a book banning hearing where they banned the book images from the books they wanted kept from banning… did you catch that? These people are groomers. It is like the psyche of a serial killer. They are screwed up, they know it, but they can’t help themselves.
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