Can Concerned Parents Turn Michigan Red This November The Way They Did Virginia?

The city of Dearborn, Michigan has been popping up in the news an awful lot lately, and for good reason. Within the past few weeks, the suburban enclave located just outside of Detroit has become a hotspot in the ongoing fight for greater parental oversight in children’s education.

After discovering sexually explicit material within the school district’s library system, Dearborn parents have begun showing up in droves to the locality’s school board meetings to protest the city’s allowance of such content in public schools and push back against the left’s continued promotion of radical gender theory in the classroom.

“We as concerned parents in Dearborn are not tied to the left, to the right when it comes to this issue and we’re not going to be used as pawns for any organization for their agenda,” said local resident and parent Hassan Shami. “We’re here to protect our children.”

As documented in a tweet by the Manhattan Institute’s Christopher Rufo, one of the books in question purportedly teaches children the “ins and outs of gay sex” and “how sex apps work.” A separate social media post from Rufo detailing the explicit material also shows a diagram of a young boy that provides readers with a “rogue guide” about which “parts FEEL NICE when you touch them.”

“A lot of guys like having their nipples played with — they are mega sensitive,” one of the captions reads.

In predictable fashion, local leftists, as well as those throughout corporate media, have gone out of their way to label the concerned parents as “unruly” and “anti-LGBT,” with one Dearborn resident even going as far as to compare the protesters — a large segment of whom are Muslim — of engaging in the same kinds of activities as Adolf Hitler.

“I am not in favor of banning any books in Dearborn. If parents do not want their children to read a book, they should not allow them to do that,” the middle-aged white woman said. “But to foist their views of one group of citizens on the rest of Dearborn doesn’t work either. This is what Hitler did and we all know how that worked out.”

The controversy in Dearborn comes on the heels of a bombshell report that found Michigan’s Department of Education is actively encouraging teachers in the state to “facilitate the sexual transition of minors without parental consent” and embrace leftist concepts like gender “fluidity” in the classroom.

Virginia on My Mind

While outrage over inappropriate curricula in public schools may be a new subject for Michigan, the brewing battle for greater parental rights in education is reminiscent of what happened in another state just last year: Virginia.

Following the adoption of policies advancing critical race theory and transgenderism in schools by several Virginia localities last year, parents across the state began turning out to their county school board meetings to protest the leftist indoctrination happening in their children’s classrooms. As the push for increased transparency and parental oversight continued to

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