Propaganda. Graphics. Illustrations. Bold, dynamic, eye-catching graphics and illustrations to ingrain, indoctrinate and burn an ideology, an agenda into a whole generation of people.
Throughout history, propaganda has been used effectively, but it did not take on such speedy and sweeping results until the rise of communism and was taken to the next level by the nazis, and the Americans and British with the advent of World War II.
A simple, bold, colorful illustration. Graphics to graphically ingrain a thought in the human mind. Seeing it enough and it sticks and becomes the truth. No matter how heinous and evil the intent behind it. The few examples here are mild compared to much of the propaganda implemented by the nazis to win hearts and minds and convict the people of Germany to eagerly follow Heir Hitler and his evil, Satanic horde. And it worked. Effective to the degree the people of Germany almost universally viewed Hitler as a savior, after reviling and rejecting him only a few short years earlier.
Not only due to the strongarm and violent tactics used by the fascists, which worked on one level, but it was the adopting and constant promotion of the nazi propaganda that in a short period of time indoctrinated the people.
Keep a certain message in front of the people long enough, strong enough, relentlessly, and capture their hearts and minds. To control them. To then carry out whatever evil agenda lies behind the slick, glossy eye and mind catching graphics presenting the story in only a few words.
Not all propaganda is bad and designed to direct the mind to adopt and approve of the messages presented;
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Not all propaganda, symbols of fascism, and oppression come in the form of posters, pamphlets, or books. Some appear in dynamic, bold, colorful, and easily recognizable ways;
To use a parallel historical event directly drawn from, once the nazis were established, after being rejected for years, and they had secured power and controlled the overwhelming majority of the adult population through fear, intimidation, and their constant use of propaganda they then directed their attention to the children.
Capture, direct, filled with a specific belief, a specific ideology knowing how susceptible young minds are in taking in what they hear and see and incorporating it into their lifelong path.
Fascism. Tyranny. A history of lies and deception. All founded in evil, its origins in rebellion and contravening the moral compass of cultures and peoples through the ages in an attempt to corrupt, subvert, pervert, and tear down existing moral and societal beliefs in a constant propaganda war to gain advantage and hoped for victory and defeat of what stood before.
The nazis did not succeed, as we know.
Though fascism tyranny, and lying to achieve the objective, sin, and evil have never left.
The homosexual and transgender agenda, their propaganda, which has been put in front of people for decades now, in words, in symbols, in graphics, and illustrations, while resisted, even reviled not long ago — only 20 years ago almost seven out of ten Americans polled and surveyed opposed homosexual marriage, whereas presently that almost exact percentage now approve of homosexual marriage.
How did that happen so swiftly? A sea change of historical proportion.
We’re still living with and contending with the residue of World War I, and World War II, but nothing from either conflict compares to the spiritual war taking place and escalating that every person in America, every person on earth is enjoined in.
The fascist, tyrannical homosexual and transgender movement has won victory among the majority of people in America, in the West, via the people’s ignorance, apathy, refusal to see and understand what was and is at work, and by their being given over to their wicked and reprobate minds.
Yes, even many of those professing to be Christian while not having any grasp or understanding of what it means, what entails being a truly regenerated, transformed of heart and mind, born anew individual by the power of the Spirit of God to work in a heart and change a person from the inside out. Imagining they are being loving, compassionate Christian folk when in reality they are serving the Enemy by propagating the propaganda, the lies, the immorality — and most dangerously and deadly, corrupting and perverting the inerrant, unchangeable infallible living and active Word of God.
Those who are darkness, while also in darkness — that is every person in America, throughout the world not truly transformed by the Spirit of God to come into the Light, the Truth, and the Way — the Lord Jesus Christ and see, hear, and know that all, every word within the word of God is true. Historical in past, present, and future context. Pure, and easy to comprehend the true nature of man and our need for repentance, our need for God’s mercy and grace, and our need for a Saviour, a true Saviour nothing like the worldly ones that appear — those folks are caught in the web of lies, the errant narrative that the homosexual and transgender movement has shaped and perpetuated with the constant indoctrination of rights, equality, tolerance and that their chosen path of sexual immorality and sexual deviancy is normal and no different than the heterosexual way of life between a man and a woman, exclusively, and according to the Word of God, exclusively between a man and a woman who are married to each other.
The normalization of lies. Deception. Cunning. Slickness. Twisting and perverting language. Playing on the inherent natures of people who are by that nature in rebellion against God, against Jesus, against the Holy Spirit, and against the Holy Bible.
So, it is very easy in our time in the past few decades to remove past foundations — as fewer and fewer people went to church, read the Bible, believed what is contained in the Bible and could easily be manipulated, and that is exactly what occurred, manipulation through the constant propaganda. The ever-increasing indoctrination to turn the majority of culture 180 degrees from what it believed only a few short years earlier.
Fascism. Tyranny. The propagating of the lie while making it appear seductive, appealing, and right so that people begin to agree, adopt, and then approve.
The nazis.
The homosexual/transgender movement.
The latter is even more pernicious, deadly, destructive, deceptive, and heinous, evil than the former.
And it takes a lot in order to say that. But it is true. Just look around. Listen. Observe.
The homosexual/transgender propaganda, lies, and evil has been readily adopted by every Western nation in only a few years. It is now the dominating philosophy to believe and live by. Live and let live, it’s all about love, rights, and equality — the lie that supplanted the truth and has been approved of by more people than the nazi ideology ever enslaved, ensnared, and held hostage to its evil.
A once, not long ago nation of people, brought about surely by Divine Providence as the wee ragtag collection of Colonists went up against the largest, mightiest, greatest nation on earth. A nation once predominately Christian, possessing in large part principals, values, and morals founded in Christianity and Judaism, with its origins a combination of Greek democracy and ethics with strong Christian and Jewish historical roots has become the lost people we now are hellbent on serving Satan and his lies, following the propaganda narrative of the Adversary abandoning the Lord, abandoning the Word of God, abandoning all that we were established by, blessed by, and prospered by.
Is it any wonder we now sit where we do?
How does this occur? So swiftly? To enslave the majority.
Propaganda. Of the most seductive and destructive kind.
And now, now the force of Evil that has been permitted to gain such ground having captured the hearts and minds of the adults, goes after the children. For to get into the heart and mind of a child can totally transform a society from that generation on.
Evil vainly, foolishly deludes itself it can win, while knowing the truth. Knowing God, knowing Christ, knowing the Bible and its true fate better than any Christian does — so it has set out to destroy as many human lives as possible in the short time it has remaining. To keep as many people, children now, from God, from Jesus, from the Bible, and from the truth as possible in the time it has left.
Brought about in large part by the apathy, the ignorance, the idleness, and refusing to see, to hear, to know the truth of this fascism, this tyranny, this lie perpetuated upon them.
Why, we are at the point in our eroding history where there is no distinction between pastors, preachers, Christian writers, and professed Christians in the language they use from the homosexual movement that created that language to weaken, indoctrinate, takeover, and remove existing words and definitions. Pastors, preachers, Christian writers, and the overwhelming majority of those professing to be Christian have not only adopted the language of the homosexual movement, they APPROVE of the language by their daily use of such language.
Ignorance is not bliss. Conforming to the world is not love.
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:6
Train up a child in the way of sexual perversion, sexual immorality, and sexual deviancy and teach them it is well, good, and normal and when they are older they will not depart from that which they have been taught.
Our Adversary knows he who captures the heart and mind can lead an individual astray in darkness until their death, and his having them in the pit of hell along with him.
The Adversary wants as much company in hell with him as possible.
Don’t allow Satan to enslave, seduce, and steal the hearts and minds of pliable, susceptible children.
Finally speak up. Stand up firmly in the faith. In the whole Word of God, dear Christian, dear brother and sister. No longer silent or passive, or approving of what is taking place. And silence is just another form of approval. For who knows there is resistance to the lies of the devil and his evil and a love for God, Christ, the Holy Spirit, and the Word of God unless that is illuminated, seen, and heard in an individual?
Ken Pullen, A CROOKED PATH, Wednesday, July 12th, 2023
“Racist,” “grooming”: Why parents are trying to ban so many picture books
July 12, 2023
By Hannah Natanson
Reprinted from The Washington Post
“Dangerous.” “Grooming.” “Reckless.” “Racist.” “Lying.”
All are adjectives that adults applied to children’s picture books as they sought to ban the titles from schools last year. These illustrated texts, intended for the youngest readers, are a surprising focus of the historic spike in efforts to restrict literature in classrooms and K-12 libraries, according to a first-of-its-kind Washington Post analysis of schoolbook challenges.
The discontent with children’s picture books overwhelmingly centers on titles with lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, and queer characters and storylines, which were targeted in 75 percent of such challenges, The Post found. The top motive, cited in 64 percent of the picture-book complaints, was a wish to prevent children from reading about lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, nonbinary, and queer lives. The next most-common reason was books’ “inappropriate” nature, cited in 44 percent of challenges, and the third most-common reason was that books were “anti-police,” a charge included in 25 percent of challenges.
“This book … opens up conversations that lead to grooming and does not separate education from moral beliefs,” an Idaho woman wrote in a filing against “Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag.”
A Pennsylvania woman alleged that the book “Julián Is a Mermaid,” featuring a boy who dresses as a mermaid, will “confuse a child … to use drag clothing and makeup.”
And a man in Virginia wrote that the book “A Place Inside Of Me: A Poem to Heal the Heart,” which explores a Black child’s reaction to the police killing of a girl in his hometown, has “very dark and sinister parts,” including the fact “law enforcement is depicted as villains throughout this work.”
The Post requested and analyzed roughly 2,500 pages of book challenges filed in more than 100 districts nationwide throughout the 2021-2022 academic year. Picture books made up nearly 10 percent of all the titles challenged in the 1,000-plus complaints, The Post found. The free expression advocacy group PEN America, too, concluded that more than 300 picture books were challenged at school in the 2021-2022 school year.
“Part of me is like, ‘Wow, people are really putting all this emphasis on picture books?’” said Kaylani Juanita, who illustrated “When Aidan Became a Brother,” which features a transgender protagonist. The title was the second most-challenged picture book identified by The Post. “They’re treating these books like weapons.”
It is unsurprising that political topics du jour are shaping a debate about kids’ books, said Carol Tilley, an associate professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who researches children’s print culture. She pointed out that, in the 1950s, adults in Alabama crusaded against “The Rabbit’s Wedding,” which told the story of a black and white rabbit getting married.
“That didn’t play well in segregationist states at the time,” she said. “I think that you see a long pattern: Concerns tend to mirror whatever the big social changes are at any particular time.”
As conflicts rage over what and how children should learn about race, gender and sex at school, public opinion seems split. A late-2022 Post-KFF poll found that more than 70 percent of adults feel it is inappropriate for teachers to discuss trans identity in kindergarten through fifth grade, while slightly more than half of adults also believe the topic is inappropriate for grades six through eight. At the same time, 77 percent of Americans say they are “extremely” or “very” concerned by book restrictions in schools, according to a March poll from Fox News.
It is also the case, said Skidmore College professor Catherine Golden, who teaches a class on 19th-century children’s literature, that objections are surging because the number of visual-rich picture books portraying what it’s like to have gay parents or be transgender has exploded.
“Picture books are now taking these lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, and queer issues on,” she said. “And the picture makes it easier to jump on it, the picture makes it easier to criticize, because it visualizes something that people might see as objectionable.”
Parent challengers argue some picture books must be banned to spare children uncertainty, mental health problems and racist beliefs.
Reading about gender identity will yield “social isolation, violence, hypersexualization … reduced economic opportunities, anxiety, depression, lack of self identity, and so much more,” wrote Sashell Dragich in Florida’s St. Johns County School District. Dragich, who did not respond to requests for comment, was objecting to “Peanut Goes for the Gold,” a book about a nonbinary guinea pig by Jonathan Van Ness, star of the Netflix series “Queer Eye.”
Sylvia Loosveldt in Washington state wrote in a challenge that Ibram X. Kendi’s “Antiracist Baby Picture Book” should be pulled from schools because it “is teaching young students to become racist” by “telling young children they should look at others only on the basis of skin color.”
Loosveldt said in an interview that she became aware of “Antiracist Baby” when a librarian friend with the Kennewick School District flagged its presence in two elementary schools. She read the book and grew disturbed, especially by an image of a White kid climbing a complete ladder while a Black kid climbs a ladder that is broken at the top. Loosveldt, 64, is retired but said she spent more than three decades teaching kindergarten and first-grade, so she knows firsthand the stakes of what goes into children’s books.
“Those kids just believe everything that you tell them,” she said. “If teachers tell you you can be any gender you want, or that you’re bad because you’re White, kids are going to believe you.”
Picture-book creators, meanwhile, range from bemused to heartbroken to defiant. Illustrator Juanita said, “at this point, I’m just so filled with disappointment and rage.” Zetta Elliott, author of “A Place Inside of Me,” said she believes adults’ fixation on certain kinds of picture books reflects a discomfort with darker moments in American history, especially episodes of racism and police brutality.
“It flows from a certain group of parents who are afraid of having difficult conversations,” she said. “But this idea that adults should not be permitted to help children interrogate difficult subjects is just ludicrous.”
And Rob Sanders, author of “Pride,” the book about murdered lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, and transgender rights activist Harvey Milk, said he is unsurprised: He expected the title would draw complaints as soon as he penned it in 2015. He was inspired to write the book when he saw the White House illuminated in rainbow colors the night after the Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act, paving the way to legal recognition of same-sex marriage. A schoolteacher, he wanted his students to understand how the rainbow flag came to represent lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, and queer rights.
Immediately after Sanders’s book was published in 2018, a parent in his class complained the title was inappropriate, preventing Sanders from reading it to his students for weeks. Similar complaints have boiled up regularly across the country since, he said.
Sanders said he has two messages for adults who dislike his books: First, parents should never make reading decisions for other people’s children. Second, he said, reading books about lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, and queer people will not turn young students homosexual, bisexual or transgender.
“Look at me. I’m almost 65, I grew up reading only books that featured parents who were heterosexual and characters who experienced the world in gender-normative ways,” Sanders said. “Those books did not make me straight.”
Worry over depictions of race, police
After books depicting lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, and queer lives, titles drawing the most objections were those that dealt with race or policing — or both.
Twenty-five percent of challenges against picture books targeted titles that have characters of color or grapple with racism. In addition to the 25 percent of challenges calling picture books “anti-police,” 12 percent of challenges alleged picture books were “racist,” making that the seventh most-common reason cited. Another 8 percent of challenges asserted picture books promoted “critical race theory” — a conservative catchall term for teaching about race deemed politically motivated — making that the ninth-most-common reason.
In Nebraska’s Wauneta-Palisade Schools, Vanessa Fanning filed to remove “The Undefeated” — a Caldecott Medal-winning poem by Kwame Alexander about Black America — due to her concerns that the book sends an “anti-police message” and because it “insinuates white lives do not matter.”
The book “divides children into two groups,” wrote Fanning, who declined to comment. “Those who look like the pictures and those who were ‘responsible’ for those racial injustices. It keeps racism alive.” She added that the book “probably would make a child of a police officer uncomfortable.”
In New Jersey’s Westfield Public Schools, a challenger — whose name school officials redacted — wrote in a filing that “Our Skin: A First Conversation About Race,” by Megan Madison and Jessica Ralli, lies to children. The challenger quoted a line from the book stating that “Racism is … the things people do and the unfair rules they make about race so that white people get more power.”
“Racism is not something that only white people do or are capable of,” the challenger wrote. “As a Jewish American, I have personally experienced racism based on my Jewish ethnicity, despite my skin color being what most would describe as ‘white.’ ”
And in Texas’s Prosper Independent School District, another anonymized challenger sought to eliminate “When Wilma Rudolph Played Basketball,” a biography of a Black sprinter who overcame childhood polio to win Olympic medals and become the fastest woman in the world in the 1960s. The book “opines prejudice based on race,” the challenger wrote, pointing to page 15, which depicts Rudolph as saying of segregationist America, “There’s something not right about all this … White folks got all the luxury, and we black folks got the dirty work.”
The book’s author, Mark Weakland, said in an interview that the quotes on page 15 come from Rudolph herself: They are words she spoke.
Elliott, the author of “A Place Inside of Me,” agreed that the subjects evoked in that title and other children’s books she’s written — including America’s history of lynching, gun violence and brutality perpetrated by police against Black citizens — are thorny. But that’s why her work is necessary, she said: There are millions of Black and brown children in the United States whose families and communities do not have a healthy relationship with police.
“So what do you do with this complicated relationship Black people have to the United States?” she said. “I wanted to write something that would give a child an opportunity to honor all of their emotions.”
Other reasons for challenging picture books varied.
An adult in Texas’s Plano Independent School District took issue with “Skippyjon Jones,” by Judy Schachner, which tells the story of an adventurous kitten who sings, “My name is Skippito Friskito. / I fear not a single bandito. / My manners are mellow, / I’m sweet like the Jell-O, / I get the job done, yes indeed-o.”
“This book promotes negative stereotypes towards Mexicans and the Spanish language,” wrote the complainant. “Throughout the book -O is added to the end of the word to sound like Spanish.”
Elsewhere in the same state, an adult in the Lamar Consolidated Independent School District objected to Colin Hynson’s book “You Wouldn’t Want to Be An Inca Mummy!,” part of a series which showcases some of the less wonderful aspects of ancient societies.
The book “talks about child sacrifice … as if to be sacrificed is a ‘great honor,’” the challenger wrote. It “makes these subjects glamorized or they try to make it appealing. … It introduces topics that children should not need to think about during elementary years.”
Story editing by Adam B. Kushner. Copy editing by Dorine Bethea. Design by Lucy Naland.
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