The word “freedom” has taken on an Orwellian meaning in the state of Oklahoma, but that should be welcomed, according to the state government. After all, freedom is slavery.
And slavery is a subject to tiptoe around now lest people who share skin color or sex as the people in the history books get a queasy feeling in their stomachs when learning of it. The state is here to protect you from such things in classrooms and school libraries. But, no, that’s not a “nanny state” tactic. That’s freedom.
If the legislature has their way, no books with naughty bits for the adults either.
“No print or nonprint material or media in a school district library, charter school library, or public library shall include content that the average person eighteen (18) or older applying contemporary community standards would find has a predominant tendency to appeal to prurient interest in sex,” Senate Bill 397 reads.
Paperback romance novels also combust at 451 degrees, it seems. Wouldn’t want to get the subjects here too riled up in case they have sex for non-procreative purposes because, as of last year, you’re no longer free to choose if and when you start a family because the Sons of Jacob know best here in the Republic of Gilead.
If the legislature has its way, you can expect Banned Books Week to be banned by the time it rolls around in October.
