Laugh at the outrage over ‘sexy seahorses’ – but there’s nothing funny about conservatives trying to rewrite history

The moms have been very methodical: they've sent the Tennessee department of education a detailed spreadsheet outlining their complaints about the books being foisted on their children. It makes for unintentionally hilarious reading. A book about Galileo is "anti-church". A book about seahorses contains too many details about the mating rituals of seahorses. A book about Native Americans is "divisive" and "paints white people in negative light". A book about Ruby Bridges, the first Black child to integrate an all-white public elementary school, is "divisive". (Racists love using the word "divisive", have you noticed? How dare you bring up slavery and segregation! You're being divisive!) A book about Greek mythology is a little too "graphic and scary". A book about Martin Luther King contains "photographs of political violence". The whole thing reads like the unhinged ravings of a book club from hell.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/25/sexy-seahorses-outrage-conservatives-trying-rewrite-history