Missouri Republicans Use Flamethrowers On Empty Boxes Meant To Represent “Naughty” LGBTQ Books

September 18, 2023 Republicans, Trump cultists

First, a new report by the American Library Association:

Texas made the most attempts to ban or restrict books in 2022, according to a new report from the American Library Association. Florida, South Carolina, Missouri and Utah weren’t far behind. Shirley Robinson of the Texas Library Association told the association: “Book challenges and censorship are nothing new. Libraries have faced these issues as long as libraries have been in existence. But the volume of challenges, and the vitriol against librarians, is unprecedented.

“Libraries are seeing multiple challenges, sometimes as many as 100, being brought forth. And often, people are not complaining about books they or their children have actually read; they are seeing books mentioned on the news or on social media and weighing in with complaints.” In total, 30 percent of all book censorship attempts were made by parents. Seventeen percent were made by political or religious groups.

From a post on Political Hotwire:



Missouri is not about to ban books statewide, the Legislature is highly dysfunctional and routinely struggles to move even ideas that are generally popular among Republicans through the process each session, despite holding GOP supermajorities. So it’s just as well that Sens. William Eigel and Nick Schroer, who each represent St. Louis exurbs that are increasingly ruby red, decide to hold this book burning.

Only they are now clarifying it’s not an actual book burning, since they’d have to purchase the books in question and they don’t want to do that, and yeah maybe they don’t want to be portrayed as doing exactly what the Nazis did either. So much so that, despite earlier declaring that this is a matter of destroying “naughty books” in effigy, they are now apparently saying that the burn is of the vague “liberal agenda.” Whatever that means.

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