I interrupt this very important vacation to bring you an urgent news update.
I’m pausing my holidays briefly to ensure everyone is aware that the bigots are back and playing the exact same game they’ve been playing (unsuccessfully) all over our province, specifically targeting small rural communities.
The ignorant bigots were shut down back in June, but apparently they didn’t comprehend the public letter our school board published. I get it, the letter contained some big words, and they’re not fans of reading, so it may have gone over their heads.
Now they’re back, ready to spread further misinformation and hate as we head into the new school year.
Once upon a time
For those who missed the previous stories, I’ll provide a brief summary.
Once upon a time there was a little bigot living in a small town. She had a few like-minded (small-minded) friends, and mostly associated with others who shared her beliefs.
One day she was taking a tour of her local middle-school library and was outraged to find pride flags, LGBTQ books, and (shock, horror) a sign saying “all are welcome here”!
Miss Bigot did what any sensible stay-at-home-mom who posts videos online for attention would do: She went around that library taking pictures of these “offensive” pride symbols (did I mention this was June — y’know, Pride Month?) to post captions expressing her outrage.
Miss Bigot took to the Internet and shared her pictures along with inflammatory statements, inciting outrage from her band of fellow simpletons.
But she wasn’t satisfied with that…
Those posts didn’t quite earn as many likes, shares, and comments as she had hoped. Miss Bigot needed to think BIGGER.
She recruited some of her fellow small-minded community members and asked them to help her find the most shocking sentences she could from any of the non-fiction books in that public school library.
Now she was on a roll.
It helped that she had some fellow ‘phobes with experience in these matters whispering in her ear and providing guidance as to the best ways to spread hate whilst disguising it as concern.
Miss Bigot contacted everyone she could think of: the librarian (even asking for the names of the students who had taken out certain books she found distasteful), the principal, even the superintendent.
When that didn’t get her enough attention, Miss Bigot decided to delegate to the entire board of trustees, asking to have all books with any kind of sexual content banned from this middle-school (grades 6–8, students aged approximately 12-15) library.
For some unknown reason, the simpleton who wants books banned thought she would be better read than those who are proponents of freedom of expression and access to diverse literature.
During her delegation she read passages from a book of poetry and a memoir, then misrepresented the criminal code of Canada in a (pathetic) attempt to further her agenda.
It didn’t work.
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