Warning: This article contains a book excerpt with graphic sexual descriptions.
It’s news to no one that legacy media love to publish Democrats’ unsubstantiated narratives — but the latest doozy from The Wall Street Journal is no exception.
On Monday, the outlet hopped on the Democrat conspiracy train by pushing the baseless claim that conservatives are “banning” books from schools and public libraries. In its article, “Book-Ban Campaigns Hit 4,240 Titles Last Year: Here Are the Top 10 Targets,” the Journal cited figures from the neo-Marxist American Library Association (ALA), which created a list of the top 10 books “targeted” by parents concerned about their children being exposed to these works’ pornographic and otherwise age-inappropriate content.
The newspaper regurgitated and legitimized the false, leftist-manufactured “book ban” phrase numerous times throughout the piece and gave some of the objectionable authors and ALA president space to mischaracterize conservatives concerned about what their children are consuming. For instance, here’s the author (whom the Post legitimizes as “nonbinary”) of All Boys Aren’t Blue, which includes descriptions of anal sex and sexual abuse:
“Every book that I write will probably be challenged because all of my books are going to live in the wheelhouse of queerness and Blackness, and those two things have been deemed unacceptable by those who are banning books,” said Johnson, who is nonbinary.
Johnson said book challenges were attempts to “dumb down the nation” by denying people the opportunity to read about the lived experience of marginalized communities.
