Inside the Right's Plan to Rebrand Sex Ed as 'Child Porn'

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After complaints from conservative activists, librarians and school board members in three states are facing the threat of criminal charges for
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Inside the Right’s Plan to Rebrand Sex Ed as ‘Child Porn’
Their new tactics include harassing school boards and calling the cops on librarians.
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7:47 AM · Oct 5, 2021

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As the mayor of Hudson, Ohio, Craig Shubert doesn’t have the power to prosecute anybody. But that didn’t stop him from delivering a hefty ultimatum to school board members at a Sept. 13 meeting: either they could resign en masse, or they could all face child pornography charges.

Despite what Shubert claimed, Hudson’s school board hasn’t been distributing child pornography. Instead, he was threatening to prosecute them over 642 Things to Write About, a book of writing prompts distributed to some Hudson high school students in a college-level course that required a parental permission slip. Prompts like “Write a sex scene you wouldn’t show your mom,” according to Shubert, merited the child porn charges.

“It has come to my attention that your educators are distributing essentially what is child pornography in the classroom,” Shubert said, to applause from the meeting’s audience. “I’ve spoken to a judge this evening. She’s already confirmed that. So I'm going to give you a simple choice. You either choose to resign from this Board of Education or you will be charged.”

No school board members resigned. Still, video of his remarks went viral on right-wing social media after being promoted by various conservative media figures like Candace Owens, and prompted threats to the school board members.

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[AZSkiffyGeek]

1. When I worked at Borders in the 90s I had a group of women come in one night

"Did you know that Barnes & Noble carries child pornography?" the lead one asked me, followed by, "Where is your photography section?"
They then proceeded to tear apart our photo coffee table book section, finally emerging with some Anne Geddes type book called "Naked Babies."
They went and complained to my manager and eventually left.
They didn't find the book that was kept wrapped behind the counter. I don't remember who the photographer was, but his work was legit controversial at the time and could be called child pornography.

[Celerity]

2. Robert Mapplethorpe?

[AZSkiffyGeek]

3. It wasn't Mapplethorpe, but it was along those lines

Edit: It was Jock Sturges.

[Irish_Dem]

4. American Taliban

[pansypoo53219]

7. talibornagain is the tern.

i was trying to read my grandfather's set of harvard classics. ben franklin's auto biography good. 2nd book, some early american guy. wrote about his teenage wet dreams so backward, i gave up.

[Ollie Garkie]

5. Someone needs

To get a fucking life

[leftieNanner]

6. They fight against sex ed in schools

and insist that it's a parent's job to teach their kids about the birds and the bees.

But then they don't do their job! They seem to believe that kids won't be sexually active if you don't teach them how it all works.



The opposite is actually true. One young woman (friend of my daughter's) was coddled by Jesus-loving parents and kept out of sex ed class. Even the one in 5th grade where they just talked about puberty (boys and girls segregated). They pulled her out of the public high school and sent her to a Christian high school. Guess who became sexually active at a much younger age - and with a completely bad guy?