Rabbits Against Magic by Jonathan Lemon for March 05, 2024

Good point!

How do you define “obscene” anyway? ;/

West Virginia librarians? What, both of them?

60 Minutes had a good presentation, the Moms for Liberty (brings to mind the saw of patriotism as the refuge of the scoundrels) book banning crusade. This right wing lobby group lost 2/3 of their endorsed candidates. And only five of the hundred books they were trying to ban were judged inappropriate by parents who read them.

We need to ban those book banners.

Republicans no longer aspire to be good guys of any kind — except those with a gun.

They no longer even try much to appear to be good guys.

red hot MAGA guy looks triggered in pan 3…

All religious books are obscene.

Must do everything we can to stop kids from reading.

If there’s going to be a book burning let’s start with Mein Kampf and The Art Of The Deal

The operative term here is “obscene.”

Taking this argument to its logical extreme, would you be okay with me handing your young children copies of “Hustler” or showing them videos at P*rnh*b, or other examples of outright p*rnogr*phy? (Keep in mind that this allegedly was, and maybe still is, a means used by would-be exploiters making child-p**n to give young children the idea that it’s perfectly OK, indeed fashionable, to pose for their cameras and engage in the behavior depicted. And consider that there exist people who still sincerely believe it’s okay to expose “impressionable” children to such depictions/behavior at a young age, and not just nudity but the whole range….)

Extrapolating enforcement of such common-sense restrictions as “like book-burning” is hyperbolic to the point of eye-rolling disgust.

The only actual debate is what constitutes “obscene.” I fully concede that the idiot activists who file complaints against hundreds of books they themselves have never read in libraries and school districts they have never been in are reprehensible zealots that need to be put in their place. But no one who actually has children should actually be “comfortable” with their young children having free access to books depicting (verbally or graphically) sexual activities in anything but a health/sex-ed book claiming to be such. There exists a reasonable balance between the two extremes, and anyone calling any reasonable restrictions whatsoever “book banning” is engaging in hyperbolic exaggeration that distorts the reality of the situation. (Now ask these same librarians what the would think of offering, say, Rush Limbaugh’s patriotic-slanted juvenile history book series, and see how fast they become “book banners.”)

The new punishment for freethinking librarians will be tied to a stake in the middle of the book pile

Outstanding comment in the third panel.

Like they care about their carbon footprint.