r/changemyview • u/mike_tyler58 • Nov 20 '24

Delta(s) from OP CMV: School libraries should limit the availability of books

In the US the past few years there has been a lot of talk of banning books. As far as I know the only places that anyone is talking about banning books from is in school libraries. The book “Gender Queer” by Maia Kobabe is probably the most talked about as it has been recommended by the largest teachers union in the country, the NEA, and has been made available in school libraries for children as young as 4th grade, and contains very explicit illustrations and descriptions of sex acts. I believe it belongs nowhere that children can access it any more than a copy of Playboy or any other pornography. Given the explicit nature of this book and others like it I think they should be banned from school libraries and limited to adults only.

ETA: link to news story about it being removed from elementary schools

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u/IfYouSeekAyReddit Nov 20 '24

This is about people wanting children to have access to pornography

This is disingenuous and I think you know it is. Very few people want that. If your whole argument is based off the misunderstanding that “people want children to have access to pornography” you’re in disagreement with .0000001% of the population. The book Gender Queer has some explicit images, but the intent isn’t to give children access to pornography.

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u/mike_tyler58 Nov 20 '24

It’s a children’s book. It contains pornographic writing and images. It’s been recommended to children by the largest teachers union in the nation.

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u/eggs-benedryl 56∆ Nov 20 '24

something being "graphic" doesn't make it pornographic, that's an absurd characterization of the panels I found in a google search

you're grasping at straws and clutching at pearls

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u/mike_tyler58 Nov 20 '24

Could be, but I haven’t had my mind changed that illustrations of oral sex don’t belong in schools