Your jaw will drop at these books deemed ‘porn’ by DeSantis and minions – By Walter Einenkel (Daily Kos) / May 10, 2023
Florida’s fascist book ban campaign has spread like a virus around the state. There are more than 500 entries for Florida in PEN America’s ever-expanding list of books banned in American schools. These include what should be obviously innocuous titles like the “Zen Shorts” series by Jon Muth, which are some of the best children’s books available to parents and teachers. This effort to remove books about Black and LGBTQ+ people and characters from schools and libraries is a part of a larger effort to sanitize our country’s history. Like almost all efforts that pass for conservative “policies” these days, citizens of all ages are widely opposed to the bans.
The lack of popularity doesn’t matter to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, though. During the first quarter of 2023 he began a disinformation campaign, telling reporters that the idea of banning books is “a hoax.”
“And that’s really a nasty hoax, because it’s a hoax in service of trying to pollute and sexualize our children,” DeSantis claims. But that claim belies the information available to anyone reading about the various books being pulled off of shelves for supposedly being “pornographic.”
