Joy Reid Asks For Proof Porn Is In High School Libraries. Here It Is.

MSNBC host Joy Reid challenged a critic to prove that public school libraries contain pornographic materials, despite well-publicized incidents of parents broadcasting images of hardcore porn made available to minors in their district’s school libraries.

Reid began by mischaracterizing a proposed Oklahoma Senate Bill 1142, which would give parents greater authority to remove “books that are of a sexual nature” and “make their primary subject … sexual activity” or “gender identity” from school libraries. Reid falsely claimed the law was designed to ban “books that don’t present white historical people as heroes.”

When a Twitter reader asked if Reid had seen some of the pornographic material in public school libraries, Reid challenged her: “Can you name some of the titles you’re talking about and the offending passages? I highly doubt libraries are stocked with pornography, but happy to hear your intel.”

Can you name some of the titles you’re talking about and the offending passages? I highly doubt libraries are stocked with pornography, but happy to hear your intel. https://t.co/Dctr0DmpK1

— Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 (@JoyAnnReid) December 30, 2021

The user then named a number of books including Jack of Hearts (and Other Parts), Gender Queer (illustrated), All Boys Aren’t Blue, and Tricks. As of this writing, Reid has not responded.

The issue of school libraries furnishing minors with sexually explicit images figured prominently in the Virginia governor’s race. A concerned mother, Stacy Langton, told the Fairfax County (Virginia) School Board about two such books in her district: “One book describes a fourth-grade boy performing oral sex on an adult male. The other book has detailed illustrations of a man having sex with a boy. The illustrations include fellatio, sex toys, masturbation, and violent nudity.”

Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe is a graphic novel that contains multiple, explicit depictions of homosexual oral sex. When Asra Nomani of Parents Defending Education posted a video of Langton’s speech, which contains pictures of the pornographic cartoons, Twitter covered up the video with the warning, “The following media includes potentially sensitive content” — precisely the same way Twitter treats hardcore pornography.

At last night’s @FCPSNews school board meeting, brave mom Stacy Langton revealed porn + pedophilia in library books. The board cut her mic + fled but I was able to record Stacy. Parents yelled, “Shame!” at the board for turning the county into #Fairfaxxx. No rest for @defendinged pic.twitter.com/efbT6c79H2

— Asra Q. Nomani 🐻 (@AsraNomani) September 24, 2021

There’s no porn/pedophilia in…Oh, wait

FCPS public school libraries, paid for with Fairfax County taxpayer dollars

But, learning loss recovery? Or virtual learning for children sent home on “pause”, or as an option? Move along…

(Don’t read this, really. It’s beyond sick) pic.twitter.com/m0GF1HXie1

— Elizabeth L. Schultz – “domestic terrorist” (@Think_Schultz) September 24, 2021

As Twitter’s policy on “adult content” states:

Adult content is any consensually produced and distributed media that is pornographic or intended to cause sexual arousal. Some examples include, but are not limited to, depictions of:

full or partial nudity, including close-ups of genitals, buttocks, or breasts (excluding content related to breastfeeding);simulated sexual acts; andsexual intercourse or other sexual acts – this also applies to cartoons, hentai, or anime involving humans or depictions of animals with human-like features.

Cartoons of a grown man engaging in mutual masturbation with a much younger man (or boy), and pictures of teenagers performing oral sex on other males, would qualify.

Twitter also has a policy prohibiting “sexualized violence,” such as “inflicting physical harm on an individual within an intimate setting.” A picture of a spear poking through a man’s anus into his abdomen (as a metaphor for the pain of homosexual anal intercourse) may qualify for that description, as well.

Kobabe’s book is not the only such case, though it may be the most explicit. Langton also drew attention to the book Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison, which features one boy fondly reminiscing about his own sexual abuse: “What if I told you I touched another guy’s d***? … What if I told you I sucked it? … I was ten years old but it’s true. I put Doug Goble’s d*** in my mouth.” Doug Goble is a grown man, “the real estate guy,” who also performed fellatio on the 10-year-old boy. “And you know what? … It wasn’t terrible,” the child says of his own prepubescent statutory rape.

“These books are in stock and available in the libraries of Robinson [Secondary School], Langley, and Annandale High School,” Langton told the school board. As she described the images and read aloud from the books, board members interrupted her, chided her not to read the passages aloud in front of children, then cut off her microphone.

Parents in Olathe, Kansas, also rose up in indignation in November when they learned the local middle school carried All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson. The book, which is recommended for children ages 10-12, says, “He reached his hand down and

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