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Brevard Public Schools Board in Florida, Brevard Board Chair Megan Wright #homophobia #wingnut animenewsnetwork.com

(Article originally posted on Anime News Network on September 9, 2024.)

The Brevard Public Schools Board in Florida banned the first volume of Shō Harusono's Sasaki and Miyano boys-love manga from the district's school libraries during a board meeting on August 27.

A person in the district challenged the book's inclusion in the schools' libraries on the grounds that "sexual orientation should not be encouraged, suggested, or implanted" in the youth.

Yen Press publishes the series in English and describes the story:

It all started like a typical old-school boys' love plotline - bad-boy senior meets adorably awkward underclassman, one of them falls in love, and so on and so forth. But although Miyano is a self-proclaimed boys' love expert, he hasn't quite realized…he's in one himself. Which means it's up to Sasaki to make sure their story has a happily ever after…!

The complaint also included concerns children would be "exposed to age-inappropriate, obscene, explicit content" and that there was "no value in making homosexual books available at school." The book is rated for T for Teens.
The complainant suggested other manga to replace the series such as Chainsaw Man, To Your Eternity, and The Seven Deadly Sins among others.
Board Chair Megan Wright objected to the book's content due to its focus on a romantic relationship, as well as the Japanese reading format of reading the book from right-to-left.
The district's Book Review Committee had previously recommended to keep the book after determining that the book did not violate Florida's Statute 847.012, but the board voted 3-to-2 in favor of banning the book.

Saku-dono #fundie animenewsnetwork.com

Bruh. If you consume child pornography, you are complicit in the violence involved in producing it.

Welp, close-minded, aren't we? In such case that you can easily tie rape, violence, molesting to just keeping DVD's, then I don't see any salvation in this world. I can really understand where people are coming from. Of course, keeping such things are kinda awful and disgusting, but go easy on the judgment. Watsuki may have admitted he liked young girls, but that doesn't automatically make him a rapist, child molester and anything. There are many kinds of pervert who doesn't go further than just obsessing from afar. Sure, they are pitiful people though.

Again, for argument's sake, as I am a big Watsuki fan, I won't be easily judging him like some others here just to stay relevant on the justified side.

Porcupine #fundie animenewsnetwork.com

People who like child porn don't need 'therapy'. It's perfectly fine to like child porn, even real child porn. It's only not okay to produce it (because it's rape) and it's not okay to support the child porn industry (by buying the product). In this case, we are dealing with animated porn in which children MAY be involved (I still have not seen any actual titles named so even this is unproven). There is nothing illegal about producing animated porn or animated child porn, and there SHOULD be nothing illegal about watching animated child porn either. In most countries it is certainly legal. In Australia, it MAY be illegal but even that is not proven as the articles that reported this incident have not given us enough information to prove that it was not just a case where the Australian justice system made a mistake.

If you think people who like child porn need 'therapy', then gays need 'therapy' too. Maybe people who think the Earth is round need 'therapy'. So let's throw them in the corner and kill them by throwing stones at them, or tie them up and burn them up at the stake as heretics, like in the olden days.

Some Hawaiians think that super fat women are beautiful. That's nasty. They are heretics I say. We should throw all the Hawaiians into a corner and stone them to death.

Maybe people who DON'T like child porn need 'therapy'. The people who do like child porn should throw all the stupid normal people into the corner and stone them to death. The only reason this wouldn't work though is that more people don't like child porn than those who do, so if there is a stone-throwing war then the child porn people lose.

There's no right or wrong. It's simply groups of people with different attributes. Some people think the world is flat and some people think the world is round. What happens when people have disagreements? I dunno, I guess that's what the government is for, but governments don't always do a perfect job either (think Saddam Hussein or Hitler).

I think it'd be interesting if a small country openly declared pedophilia, and even real-life child porn and child sex, completely legal in that country. I don't see this as an impossibility at all (considering things that countries have done in the past). I bet if such a country were to exist, people would find that there are more pedophiles in the world than gays.

Porcupine #fundie animenewsnetwork.com

Counseling" isn't even a true science or medical profession. Most or all counselors and psychologists are just quacks. It's a field of quacks, just like the American Psychological Association's pathetic Manual that tempest quoted from earlier.

Being a pedophile isn't some sort of sickness, it's perfectly natural if you like underage (but physically or almost physically mature) girls. Even if you like toddlers, that's still not a sickness, just the way you are (weird). Saying that pedophilia is a sickness is like saying that being gay is a sickness. People don't force gays to go to counseling.

Being gay is just as unnatural as wanting to molest a 5-year old toddler.

I'm gonna say it again so that I attract the wrath of all the idiots here who keep mentioning "counseling". Counseling is FAKE, it is for losers!! It's a stupid profession and everyone who does it is a quack!!

Oh yeah, ultrapostman, I just wanted to mention though that I don't think most pedophiles are ashamed. I wouldn't be ashamed if I liked 5-year old little girls. Although some certainly may be ashamed. Just like there are some gay guys who are ashamed and some gay guys who aren't.

Porcupine #fundie animenewsnetwork.com

Oh, so rape victims seeking emotional support from counselling are all losers who worship quacks? Counselling doesn't necessarily have to be founded on science as long as it achieves the effect of communcating verballing/emotionally with the person involved and find out how him/her can have less trouble living within the boundaries of society.

People who seek out counselors for emotional support are indeed seeing a quack (someone who engages in a profession that is not scientific, but pretends like his profession is). However, you are correct it is possible that a counselor could help in the scenario you mentioned. But it's also possible that talking to one's parents or friends could help just as much, if not more than, talking to a counselor.

People have the freedom to waste their money however they want however. So if a rape victim wants to waste money seeing a counselor, that's their choice. But counseling should never be mandatory (even though it is sometimes, usually only if laws have been severely broken, and even this is a stupid practice) since it is a quack art. People should never be forced to go to counseling. Especially not to "cure" something that is not even a sickness in the first place. Pedophilia is not a sickness. Even the 6-year old toddler version is not a sickness. It's just abnormal. It does not need to be cured. And the 15-year old girl version of pedophilia is even completely normal.

Insisting that pedophilia, in any form, needs to be "cured" through counseling (or any other method) is like insisting that gays need to be cured from being gay. Or insisting that people who are ugly need to be cured from being ugly. Or that blacks need to be cured from being black. Or that Buddhists need to be cured and converted to Christianity. And sending a pedophile to "counseling" (a worthless practice) is not gonna be any more helpful than sending him to a quack who waves around a magic wand and claims to cure people through "magic".

Porcupine #homophobia animenewsnetwork.com

If you think about it in terms of what is most nasty and unnatural, I think the true order ranks like this:

Most natural and least nasty - Pedophilia. Especially involving any girl already past puberty regardless of her age. If she's 10 years old but can have kids and looks attractive, I think liking such a girl is totally natural (and vice versa for guys).

Semi-natural and fairly nasty - Homosexuality and Lesbianism. Yuck! Although since I'm a guy I don't think Lesbianism is yucky, and many girls probably don't think Homosexuality is yucky either. Hahaha. Actually, there may be ways to argue why one might be naturally yuckier than the other, but I don't want to get into that.

Porcupine #fundie animenewsnetwork.com

I think homosexuality ought to be way more 'taboo' than pedophilia (but both should be legal whether 'taboo' or not). What is more disgusting, a man having sex with another man, or a 16 year-old girl having sex with a 15-year old boy? (this is pedophilia according to the American Psychological Association's Manual that tempest pulled up for us...although I also have to remark that I think psychologists are all a bunch of idiots engaging in a quack profession...and I am not sure their definition of pedophilia would be the legal definition either...then again it doesn't matter because in the USA I think an 18-year old boy having sex with a 17-year old girl is technically illegal too, regardless of what it is called. But at least there is no law in the USA against watching hentai anime which seems to be the case in Australia, lol).

Then again, since I'm a guy, I don't think a girl having sex with another girl is disgusting at all. Lol. And girls probably view homosexuality the same way I view lesbianism. So basically...everyone should be able to do whatever they want as long as no one is getting hurt in the process.

Professor Lee Won-bok #racist animenewsnetwork.com

"Monnara Iunnara" (Distant Countries and Neighboring Countries), a South-Korean educational manhwa by university Professor Lee Won-bok, is causing international outrage over sections of the comic that are being called anti-semitic.

The series is intended to teach children about other countries and has sold over 12 million copies since the first issue was published in 1987.

In one case, the comic shows a man climbing a hill, only to be blocked by a wall with a Star of David and the word "stop" on it. The text states, "The final obstacle to success is always a fortress called Jews." Another section states, "In a word, American public debate belongs to the Jews, and it's no exaggeration to say that U.S. media are the voice of the Jews."

An issue published 3-years ago states, "Arab terrorists despise the United States and destroyed the World Trade Center with suicide attacks because Jews use money and the news media as weapons to control the United States."

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Through his publisher, Lee has apologized for the matter and said that he would change portions of the book that are seen as anti-semitic. However, he has also stated that he is not anti-Semitic and that the statements about the Jews are "commonly knowledge."