by Robert Reich:

[elleng]

'“Critical race theory” is not what scares the GOP. What scares the GOP is a multi-racial democracy of people unafraid to speak truth to power. This is the real reason they’re banning books.'

[CommonHumanity]

1. Bingo

I love Robert Reich. He always cuts through the bullshit, obfuscation and smaller details and gets right to the real truth of the matter. He is a tireless national treasure.

[Uncle Joe]

2. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread elleng.

[SheltieLover]

3. Absolutely!

[usonian]

4. You can't ban books on the internet.

And it crosses state and national lines. Content can be copied or streamed (leaving no trace, if you use private mode) Kids are smart, not living in the past.

[elleng]

5. HOWEVER, books can be removed from school and other libraries,

wherein MANY 'banned' books are USUALLY located and accessed by students.

[usonian]

10. I'm betting that kids know how to access things online.

Kids are geniuses at breaking restrictions.

Didn't we?

[elleng]

11. Some surely do, many are too YOUNG to do so,

and many/most do well reading BOOKS in HAND.

[usonian]

13. Of course. I guess we need to stock those "little libraries'

Peace!

[elleng]

14. Those too AND

the 'used book' sections of second-hand shops; my grand children have MANY old used books from me, expect to receive them, and ask 'where' their books are, when I visit.

[soldierant]

9. Let us hope their parents are NOT as smart about parental controls

as the kids are about the 'Net.

[usonian]

12. I am no expert on library and other internet restrictions.

Parents can exert control on home routers and devices. and I imagine that there are full monitoring apps.

Applying my kid brain, just borrow an old ipad or ipod touch and read books at or near a hotspot.

[Septua]

6. What scares the GOP...

..is just a muiti-racial population. The people unafraid to speak the truth just pisses 'em off.

[L. Coyote]

7. The tweet I saw:

Link to tweet

[Alice Kramden]

8. Thanks for including this video

These young people give me tremendous hope