The Left has been collectively hyperventilating about “book bans” for months. No one should be surprised that liberals are redefining the word “ban” in an effort to stigmatize conservative politicians leading the movement for parental rights in education. But some moderate Republicans have also signaled that they, too, buy into the idea that restricting content based on age-appropriateness constitutes a “book ban.”
“We must abandon the issues that are solely made for social media headlines, such as banning books or issuing curriculum fiats to local school districts hundreds of miles away from state capitals,” New Hampshire governor Chris Sununu wrote in a recent Washington Post op-ed. “If we really want to keep our children safe, we need to spend less time banning books and more time stopping the horrific gun violence in our schools,” Liz Cheney tweeted in late March. Book bans “could be a slippery slope that goes to really bad places,” said former Florida governor Jeb Bush. And the George W. Bush Presidential Center promoted an op-ed by one of its employees, who wrote, “Instead of banning books, we should focus on creating strong readers.”
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