The progressives in Alexandria, Virginia, are doing what progressives do best - working hard to "raise awareness" for non-existent problems.
Accomplish nothing but signaling your superior virtue to anyone who will pay attention … it's Progressivism 101.
This time, the political theater centers around a pretty cool looking piano bar called "The Study" in a swanky, boutique hotel known as Morrison House. Next week, the histrionics and melodrama will flow like cheap booze from their overpriced tap as they celebrate this:
Ah yes, we can only assume the handmaid red dresses and white bonnets will be abundant as The Resistance (patent pending) takes a courageous stand against the great book banning crusade currently sweeping the country now that pretend "right-wingers" are back in charge. It's all so tedious and tiresome.
The Morrison House hotel website explains the coming production this way:
We want to let you in on our little secret… The Study at Morrison House is filling its shelves - and cocktail menu - with banned books. As a haven for storytelling, we're celebrating the power of literature in all its forms while supporting local libraries.
What's just classic about all this is that you can search the website, the advertisements, the promotional materials; you can read the interviews with organizers, or the news stories endorsing the event. In so doing, you will find plenty of information about the cool "artisanal coffees" they will feature, and the clever cocktails that will be presented at their "bubbly bar." You can read about the various vendors who will be on hand, including one that "celebrates BIPOC (for the uncultured, that would be "black, indigenous, people of color") authors and voices."
But interestingly enough, what you won't find is any list of the supposed "banned books" that are going to be featured.
Now, why might that be? If you're preparing to be scandalous and do something truly rebellious, wouldn't you want to tease your countercultural street cred? Tell the world the shocking content you're about to defiantly display. But they don't.
Could that be because the books aren't really "banned" in America despite all the progressive propaganda that says otherwise? Oh, there are definitely pornographic and overly sexualized books like Gender Queer and All Boys Aren't Blue that are restricted or removed from school or children's libraries. But they're still available for purchase in physical bookstores as well as online, and no one is arrested for owning a copy.
They aren't "banned;" responsible parents and school boards have just rightly reasoned that the content is not appropriate for young kids, and especially not in an educational setting. These works aren't exactly To Kill a Mockingbird or Huckleberry Finn, after all.
What's ironic is that the closest thing these progressives have likely seen to an actual "book ban" in recent years has been Amazon's blacklisting of Ryan T. Anderson's seminal work on the junk science of transgenderism, When Harry Became Sally. Throughout the entirety of the Biden administration, the largest bookseller in the world wouldn't shelve it simply because it offended leftist dogma.
Or if not Anderson's book, maybe the closest thing we've seen to a ban would be when the American Booksellers Association pathetically prostrated themselves for what they called, "a serious, violent incident that goes against ABA's policies, values, and everything we believe and support." What was this self-described "inexcusable" mistake? They sent a copy of Abigail Shrier's Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters book to potential sellers.
So here's the 64-million dollar question:
How prominently do you suppose those two books will be featured at The Study next week?
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