Banning books to save kids? Please. Bullets are more dangerous.
Some of the most impactful book-banning happened in the DMV region, where businessman Glenn Youngkinabout literature and rode them all the way to the Virginia Governor’s mansion last year.
If parents want a say over what their kids read, they need to build relationships with their children that include discussions about what they are reading. Parental involvement is hard work, and it isn’t done by censoring and limiting what everyone has access to.Youngkin ran a campaign ad using Virginia mom Laura Murphy, who dabbled in book banning a decade ago when Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer-Prize winning book, “Beloved,” gave her high school senior night terrors.
The politicians wrongly focused on culture wars are right about one thing: America does need to wake up — to the trauma its children are undergoing daily, and not just when journalists show up to document it.
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