"I Think We Should Throw Those Books in a Fire"

The Spottsylvania County, Virginia school board decided to ban "sexually explicit" books, which in this case, it means anything about LGBTQ people.

This is not particularly newsworthy, but two members of the school board called for these books to be burned, which is both notable and completely bat-sh%$ insane:

The Spotsylvania County School Board has directed staff to begin removing books that contain “sexually explicit” material from library shelves and report on the number of books that have been removed at a special called meeting next week.

The directive came after a parent raised concerns at the School Board’s meeting Monday about books available through the Riverbend High School’s digital library app.

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The board voted 6–0 to order the removal. Berkeley District representative Erin Grampp was not in attendance for the vote on that issue.

Two board members, Courtland representative Rabih Abuismail and Livingston representative Kirk Twigg, said they would like to see the removed books burned.

“I think we should throw those books in a fire,” Abuismail said, and Twigg said he wants to “see the books before we burn them so we can identify within our community that we are eradicating this bad stuff.”

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Twigg said he would like to broaden the criteria for identifying objectionable books.

“There are some bad, evil-related material that we have to be careful of and look at,” he said, without elaborating.

"Evil related material," huh?

Unfortunately, too many people from the sane end of the body politic look at people like Abuismail and Twigg, and their response is, "In spite of the harshness and ruthlessness I thought I saw in his face, I got the impression that here was a man who could be relied upon when he had given his word."

These people are not the opposition, they are the enemies of the Republic.