Massachusetts Moves to Legally Protect School and Public Libraries
Proving once again that the state level is where protections from federal overreach can be crafted, Massachusetts passed a bill in the House to legally protect school and public libraries.
The exact same movement that actively fought to get Americans fired for quoting Charlie Kirk after his murder are also actively working to control the ideas America’s children can be exposed to by systemically banning books around the country.
This is the same movement that cheered Elon Musk taking over Twitter in the name of “free speech” so he could reinstate accounts that published CSAM, so protecting children is also not their actual goal. This is also obvious in their championing of Dear Leader who is protecting Epstein pedophiles.
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Conservatives’ Free Speech Protect Children Lies
In other words, these folks don’t actually value free speech or protecting children. Those cited values are just a convenient bumper sticker jingo they use to cloak their efforts to restrict the public’s freedoms as they turn around in the same breath and ban books from libraries for daring to tell the story of someone who isn’t white, straight and Christian.
Because this movement — currently operating under the auspices of the Trump stamped “MAGA”, but largely rebranded from the Tea Party — thrives on ignorance, they have gone after libraries, both public and school, as well as librarians around the country.
Their goal is to police thought. They want generations of Americans so ignorant that they are easy to manipulate because they have never been exposed to different ideas.
Proving once again that the state level is where protections from federal overreach can be crafted, the Massachusetts House of Representatives “overwhelmingly” passed a bill (H. 5489) to legally protect school and public libraries, basically an anti-book ban bill.
“The majority-Democrat chamber voted 153-3 last week to approve the legislation sponsored by Rep. John Moran, D-9th Suffolk. The bill, among other things, protects school library professionals from retaliation for fighting book bans.”
The goal of this bill is to prevent politically motivated censorship and protect library professionals by setting statewide standards for book challenges and establishing guidelines for public and school libraries.
“Last year, Massachusetts was sixth in the nation in the number of book challenges, resulting in more than 200 titles being banned or censored,” Andrea Fiorillo, co-chair of the Massachusetts Library Association’s Intellectual Freedom and Social Responsibilities Committee told WGHB. She added that “8,000 unique titles were challenged nationwide, and 77% of those were censored, with 66% banned outright according to the American Library Association. Fiorello said she’s been alarmed at a similar trend in Massachusetts.”
It looks very likely to pass as a similar bill already passed the state Senate last year.
The Goal of Book Bans is to Indoctrinate with Hate
