Book Bans Erase the Stories that Affirm Students’ Identities

The fundamentalist Christians and the maga right can not tolerate positive affirming media about LGBTQIA, independent women, or black people because it ruins their narrative.   They want to push the idea that women need men to function and be whole, that blacks are lazy and less intelligent, and that the LGBTQIA are evil incarnate that will destroy everything good in the country / world and god hates them, so god will take it out on everyone if they are treated decently.  They are desperate to push the 1950s social narrative that white men are good, the Christian god is the right and only god in public, and that cis straight is normal so every thing else is an abhorrent abomination.  They are wrong and stuck in a regressive oppressive past, unable to let others enjoy the modern world.  They are modern Amish, only they demand that everyone live like them.  Without positive reinforcement the lives of LGBTQIA and minority kids are much harder, much more anxiety ridden, much more unpleasant.  Kids learn to hate themselves.  They learn that others hate them and are free to attack them.  So they either keep hidden, missing out on great times straight cis kids are having along with a much higher risk of suicide.  Hugs