The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Leftists MAD after Smith UCP bans explicit books in schools

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. One of the most enjoyable aspects of this story we're about to

00:00:06.160 cover is how predictable it was that leftists were going to become extremely angry after Alberta

00:00:13.900 Premier Danielle Smith's UCP government banned sexually explicit books in schools. Guys, you

00:00:20.880 don't want to be on this side of the argument. You do not want to be defending these books,

00:00:26.460 pretending that you're standing against censorship. This is not censorship. This is basic moral

00:00:33.360 decency when it comes to the sorts of materials that children can get a hold of. Anyways, we're

00:00:40.540 going to dive into the story going over all the arguments that leftists are making against Smith's

00:00:46.180 government. But before I get into it, I just want to remind you guys, make sure if you like the channel

00:00:51.720 to leave a like on this video, leave a comment on what you think about it, and subscribe if you are

00:00:57.740 not yet a subscriber. But before I get to the leftist reactions, I just want to cut over to

00:01:04.040 Alberta Education Minister Demetrios Nikolaides, who does a good job of presenting what this policy is.

00:01:10.400 To announce that we have created a balanced province-wide standard to ensure

00:01:15.740 school library materials are age-appropriate and free of sexually explicit content. I am confident

00:01:24.160 that these new standards strike the right balance of supporting the important role school boards,

00:01:31.380 librarians, teachers, and staff play in selecting school library materials while setting clear

00:01:37.060 expectations as it relates to sexual content. Under the new standards, school libraries are not

00:01:43.640 permitted to include material containing explicit sexual content. Non-explicit sexual content may be

00:01:52.640 accessed to students in grades 10 and above, provided it is age-appropriate. School boards must also

00:01:59.820 regularly review their school library collections, publish a full list of all available materials,

00:02:07.300 and ensure that a staff member supervises student access to school library materials.

00:02:13.640 I think it was important for you guys to hear that. We don't need to listen to the rest of it,

00:02:18.140 but this is an extremely reasonable policy that we don't want young children getting their hands on

00:02:27.580 sexually explicit material and even things that are not exactly graphic still should be restricted for

00:02:34.020 grades 10 and above, and they should still have to, you know, pass through some level of supervision to

00:02:39.660 make sure it's not like, you know, gross romance novels getting thrown into high school libraries that

00:02:44.860 frankly nobody should read. But I now need to cut over to the left who are trying to paint this as like

00:02:53.440 book burning, that they are trying to, you know, restrict access to materials that humanizes gay people or

00:03:02.460 whatever. Guys, it's not, this ain't the argument you should be making. Honestly, the Alberta left, and a lot of the

00:03:09.660 people I'm going to be talking about today aren't exactly on the left in terms of Alberta, they're from other

00:03:14.560 provinces, but the Alberta left is absolutely burying themselves these days. Alberta NDP, leader Nahid Nenshi,

00:03:22.820 seems to be on a quest to alienate everybody from his party. Yes, his party is in fact calling this a book banning,

00:03:30.040 some of the more radical MLAs in this caucus are sounding off about this, because apparently it's

00:03:36.240 deeply necessary to have books like Genderqueer in classrooms and in libraries, where it just openly 1.00

00:03:43.500 depicts sexual acts of minors, by the way. That's something that for some reason we need in schools, and

00:03:51.020 it's on top of things like Nenshi trying to ban coal mining in Alberta, a great thing to do when your 1.00

00:03:57.200 party's basis was supposedly workers, you know, blue collar workers, let's just ban an entire industry

00:04:03.680 that those people work in, and also let's make it so that their children can read pornography in schools. 1.00

00:04:09.680 But here is the first leftist we're going to talk about today, one of your favorites, Frank Dominic,

00:04:16.020 who for some reason is in fact a school teacher in Ontario, and has openly bragged in the past of

00:04:22.700 teaching gender theory and socialism to young children in his English class. He teaches English,

00:04:29.920 and for some reason he needs to teach these things in an English class. It just demonstrates the leftist

00:04:35.980 mentality. Everything must be about their causes and their issues, even when it literally has nothing

00:04:42.320 to do with the subject matter that they're supposed to be teaching or engaging with. But here's Frank

00:04:47.260 Dominic sounding off about it. The conservatives in Alberta are banning books in schools, because

00:04:52.560 that's exactly what a freedom-loving government does, with them deciding to ban all books that

00:04:57.280 are deemed as sexually explicit, except, of course, the Bible. And as somebody who grew up in a Catholic

00:05:01.480 school, I can guarantee you that the most violent and sexually explicit book in our school at any time

00:05:05.380 was the Bible. Well, back in those days, you didn't have books like genderqueer in the library. 0.98

00:05:12.840 And also, no, the Bible is not sexually explicit. Even things like the Song of Solomon are not

00:05:20.780 sexually explicit. If anything, the Bible tends to use euphemistic language to not be needlessly

00:05:27.820 vulgar. That is just how it's written, because the point is not to, you know, describe anything that

00:05:33.460 is, you know, not safe for work. That is not in the Bible. It's like, oh, it's violent. Yeah, because it

00:05:39.760 talks about wars, and it talks about people being killed and whatnot. It is not the most violent or

00:05:45.240 sexually explicit book, probably even in school back when he was a kid. And again, he's here acting

00:05:51.920 like it's so crazy. They're claiming these are sexually explicit. They are. I cannot talk about

00:05:58.620 what are in those books without having this video be demonetized. You will have people go in front of

00:06:05.900 a legislature, or they will go in front of a school board, and they will start showing images from

00:06:10.780 these books or describing them. And the speaker or the chair will have to say, can you please stop?

00:06:16.880 This is a little gross for this meeting. It's like, yeah. And that means that we probably shouldn't be

00:06:21.740 letting eight-year-olds read it. But again, he's just going to pretend like, oh, they're claiming it.

00:06:27.760 But that doesn't actually mean it's true. It's true, guys. It's true.

00:06:31.260 But all books with explicit content will be removed, and libraries will also no longer be

00:06:34.900 permitted to provide students in grade nine or below material that contains non-explicit material.

00:06:39.140 One of the core tenets in grade nine English classes across the country is Shakespeare,

00:06:43.220 like Romeo and Juliet. Those would no longer be allowed in schools. Although I wonder what kind of-

00:06:46.860 No, that- No. Is there sexual activity spoken about in those books or referred to? Yes. I was in

00:06:56.200 grade nine at one point. I read those books. Guess what? You read them in a classroom setting,

00:07:00.120 it's very old, like older, like English-style writing, where nobody is really, like, reading it,

00:07:08.380 seeing that this is, like, smut that they're reading. And again, usually Shakespeare, you're

00:07:12.380 reading as a class collectively, with context and historical references being given for things like

00:07:19.860 that.

00:07:20.240 ...of exceptions they're going to make for stuff that they deem to be important for the culture,

00:07:24.440 the white Anglo-Saxon culture. You might have seen that they're also going to ban books.

00:07:27.320 You know, we can keep stuff around that supports white Anglo-Saxon culture. Frank, the person who

00:07:34.940 wrote the book, Genderqueer, is whiter than Mayonnaise. Who cares if the writer is white? We 0.68

00:07:41.340 just don't want the writer to be crazy. And again, we're not talking about someone referencing

00:07:46.320 sex in a book. We are talking about porn in schools. We do not want pornography in schools.

00:07:53.320 Doesn't matter if it's drawn or it's literally depicted. We don't want that stuff. In fact,

00:07:59.000 we probably need less of it in life in general. But the guy is just, again, not wanting to actually

00:08:04.760 engage with what is specifically being banned. He's just being a weasel, because Frank is consistently

00:08:10.300 always a weasel, trying to basically, like, take snide jabs at other books that technically could be

00:08:16.800 banned. But nobody, no reasonable human being actually thinks should be banned.

00:08:20.820 It involved handholding, but that seems to be a mistake, as non-sexual content, including

00:08:24.240 menstruation, puberty, romantic relationships, including handholding and kissing, will still

00:08:27.520 be allowed. Once again, though, only for students' grades 10 to 12. Oh, and the government's going to

00:08:31.200 deem whether or not a book is developmentally appropriate for students. The Ministry of Education

00:08:34.780 then went on to say this was never about banning books, other than the books that are being banned.

00:08:38.280 Yeah, porn. Things that are showing sexual activity cannot be in schools. Of course,

00:08:45.660 the Bible will not be affected. And there's a lot of classic literature that you read as a kid that

00:08:49.660 will probably be banned because of this. It's not. Can he actually point to a single book that anyone

00:08:56.180 is calling to be banned? And him acting, like, upset, or him feigning, feigning, like, indignation that

00:09:05.180 the government is going to determine what books are allowed to be in schools? The government already

00:09:09.860 does that. That is why you even have librarians who are in place with specific rules on what books

00:09:15.780 that they add. There is going to be an authority saying whether or not that book can be in schools

00:09:21.040 or not. You have school boards. You have, again, authorities within schools. He's acting like some

00:09:26.500 big, like, library free marketer or something where, let all the books be in all the schools. It's like,

00:09:32.660 he doesn't actually believe that because Frank Dominic supports hate speech legislation. He is

00:09:39.360 not somebody who actually believes the things he is saying. I said this in a short I uploaded

00:09:44.720 yesterday. This is what we call concern trolling. He is pretending he cares when he does not. Does he

00:09:52.280 actually think this is a book banning? No. He just likes the books that are being banned. And so he is

00:09:58.800 going to act like this is somehow just books being banned for political reasons. And when I say

00:10:03.280 it's not a book banning but books are being banned, I'm saying that books that any adult can go purchase

00:10:09.580 still are not allowed to be in schools where the material is inappropriate. This isn't like books that

00:10:16.380 are not allowed to be sold in the province of Alberta. You can buy them if you're a weirdo. You can do

00:10:22.200 that. But it would be like saying that, like, it's restricting your freedom or it's restricting a

00:10:29.880 child's freedom not to be able to drink alcohol. And we have an alcohol ban. We don't. You just can't

00:10:34.280 drink under the age of 18 in the province of Alberta. That's not an alcohol ban. This is not

00:10:39.220 a book ban. This is saying you cannot show pornography to children. You cannot show that stuff to children.

00:10:44.740 But yeah. Okay, I'm going to move on because he's just going to keep reiterating the same point over

00:10:50.420 and over again as if he is actually getting to the bottom of something. He is not. I want to jump over

00:10:56.180 to this other thing I just queued up yesterday of the Alberta leftist talking head, the breakdown,

00:11:05.500 trying to, again, without giving detail, just like Frank did not, pretend like this is censorship.

00:11:12.800 He literally even has in the corner of the screen a bunch of books with the word censored over them.

00:11:19.460 Have they actually been censored? Or are you not allowed to show content that is illegal to show

00:11:25.240 to children to children? We are basically enforcing the law. You are not allowed to show graphic,

00:11:32.540 you're not allowed to show indecent imagery to children. That can get you arrested in many places.

00:11:37.740 And now that we are enforcing that rule in schools, at the behest of parents who are outraged by this

00:11:43.820 material being in schools, now this is censorship. And it's such an overreach. And it's, it's all just so

00:11:53.160 bad. We're going to get into the book bans. But in order to have a conversation about the UCP's book

00:12:03.500 bans, the Demetrius Nicolaitis announced on Monday, there are some things that we're going to have to address.

00:12:10.520 And this conversation is not going to be comfortable.

00:12:14.780 Yeah, it's not, it's not comfortable

00:12:17.140 defending sexual imagery being shown to children. I can, I can understand how Nate Pike here feels

00:12:25.320 uncomfortable arguing in favor of something that is morally depraved.

00:12:29.460 But I guess he's just going to have to live with his depraved opinions, making him feel a little

00:12:34.080 uncomfortable, a little less comfy saying, and the next part I want to get to, this is why I want to

00:12:39.580 show you it. He like basically demonstrates that this is not an attack on anybody, that this is not

00:12:46.740 going after the gay or trans community. In fact, this is common sense policy that anyone can agree 1.00

00:12:52.360 there's no way to have this conversation comfortably. So if you're able to stick through

00:13:00.120 it, I think it's a very important conversation, we wouldn't be having this conversation on the show,

00:13:05.500 if it wasn't critically important, if it wasn't being horribly misrepresented.

00:13:11.040 And if we hadn't gotten inundated with messages from folks since the announcement came out.

00:13:17.340 Um, and I feel like before we get into the, the, the content part of the, the segment, um,

00:13:26.880 I don't really know how to thread this needle. I'm going to be honest. I really, really don't.

00:13:34.600 You should just not have a show then if talking is hard for you and you're talking based career,

00:13:39.300 stop talking, how to thread this needle. Um, one of the things that I've heard from, from multiple

00:13:46.980 people is there is a performative piece that seems to be being utilized. Uh, there seems to be

00:13:55.360 individuals that are being chosen and elevated specifically because of their, um, uh, sexual

00:14:04.680 orientation. And there's a lot of folks I've heard from in the last four or five days from the LGBTQ2S 0.82

00:14:12.620 plus community who are expressing an incredible amount of frustration and incredible amount of

00:14:18.260 hurt because there are people who are part of their community who instead of

00:14:26.600 just say stick, staying on the plantation and saying the acceptable community opinions.

00:14:34.540 He's such a hack. He's such a pathetic hack. You're describing gay people who also think 1.00

00:14:40.240 that the content is inappropriate, that maybe teaching gender theory in the classroom and in

00:14:45.060 school literature is bad. That's what he's trying to say here. That's what's so disgusting.

00:14:49.780 Eva Kuronova, other people who are gay can easily have problems with explicit material being given 0.98

00:14:57.500 to eight-year-olds. That is not difficult to do. And him, his humming and hawing here and neighing at

00:15:04.040 the camera about how he is, oh, it's so difficult for me to do this. Is it, is it neighing? Or are you

00:15:10.220 not an adult? Or are you somebody who doesn't have well thought out opinions? You're just regurgitating

00:15:15.400 leftist trash and it's making you uncomfortable because you realize somewhere deep in your 0.99

00:15:19.760 heart that you're probably wrong. Speaking about evidence, speaking about lived experience, 0.98

00:15:26.660 there, the, the term that I have heard used and was asked to use, and I'm really uncomfortable

00:15:33.340 with this because I'm as, as I've said many times on the show, I am as vanilla on the, the spectrum as

00:15:44.440 you can possibly be. I am a straight, um, cisgendered, middle-aged white guy.

00:15:52.560 Well, apparently he's also uncomfortable in this video because he has to just denounce himself

00:15:57.500 before the video starts. He's struck, he's in a self-imposed struggle session over, over the

00:16:04.900 community apparently wanting him to say stuff that he's uncomfortable saying and he's gonna,

00:16:08.700 gonna have to say it anyways, apparently. And so it's really uncomfortable for me to

00:16:16.040 use my voice to speak to issues for communities that I am not a member of. And I want to be really

00:16:22.560 clear. I wouldn't be doing this if I hadn't been asked by so many people to make it clear. The pick

00:16:27.920 me's are a problem. They really, really are. There are people who are so desperate for attention,

00:16:34.120 who are so desperate for power or worse proximity to power, that they will turn their backs on their

00:16:40.780 own communities. And it's sad and it's deeply, deeply hurt a lot of people. And so I wanted to

00:16:48.800 get that out of the way because. Yeah, he's being a hack. And this is the most common leftist thing I

00:16:57.580 hear when somebody from their own community disagrees with them. So from somebody, not exactly even from

00:17:03.000 their own community, because I hate when we keep talking about people as communities, as if they're

00:17:06.980 not individuals. But every time somebody who by leftist orthodoxy, in theory, should be agreeing

00:17:12.920 with them, doesn't. You're, you're a shill. You're, you've been paid off. You want power. You're greedy.

00:17:19.960 You're selfish. It's pathetic. He come with a real argument in hand, Nate. Stop coming with your hat 1.00

00:17:27.400 in hand saying, oh, I'm uncomfortable doing it. Then stop it. Oh, I wouldn't be doing this unless

00:17:32.840 I was told to do it. You were handed the talking stick and now you're going to say a bunch of stupid 1.00

00:17:37.440 crap for all these people who couldn't say it themselves. He doesn't even have a big show. 1.00

00:17:42.000 Like a couple hundred people maybe watch this guy and every once in a while, a hacky professor

00:17:46.420 will share him because he says like, you know, offensively correct opinions by the leftist worldview.

00:17:53.620 In fact, although they actually are fairly offensive opinions when you dig down to what

00:17:58.380 these people are defending. But I want to show some stuff that I believe, I'm, I'm, I'm wondering

00:18:05.700 if I should show this just because it was going to potentially get like censored by the CBC.

00:18:11.140 I'm going to instead going to jump over to the people that he is trying to tokenize and basically

00:18:16.140 say these people are just offering up themselves for power, for attention, for all this stuff.

00:18:23.220 Here are two lesbians appalled by all the gay books that these libraries are hosting. 1.00

00:18:32.080 I think that, aren't these people trying to do it for power and attention? Look at this.

00:18:36.980 We're gay, but we're in Barnes and Nobles and there's a kid's book section, a gay kid's book

00:18:43.720 section. And this shit is crazy. Look at this. 1.00

00:18:46.380 Okay. There's the gay BCs, right? Bye, bye, binary. Bye, bye, binary with a mohawk on a baby. 1.00

00:18:56.240 Gay BCs. You're not ready. Hold this. Okay. What? A is for arrow and ace. B is for bi. This is crazy. 1.00

00:19:08.540 We're gay, but this is crazy. What? For a baby? Okay. E is for equality. We'll take that. 0.90

00:19:16.060 F is for family. Okay. We're getting better. Okay. Why did it start so crazy? It got better.

00:19:24.460 I is for intersex. It's pushing it. For a baby, this is pushing it. J is for joy. J is for joy.

00:19:31.140 We'll take, we'll take Tio and Tio. That looks nice. Forgot this one. K is for Kiki.

00:19:39.380 Oh, wait. I guess there's no gay word for M.

00:19:44.920 But the, like, again, they're not even talking about the sexually explicit books, but the way that this

00:19:50.080 stuff gets just forced on people. It is everywhere for no reason. I think I will show it. I want to

00:19:56.720 show the CBC segment. These, again, these are what I would dub as groomer books and groomer content.

00:20:04.460 It is normalizing things that are not, it's not, it's not even not the norm, but, like, obviously

00:20:11.600 bad for kids. Like, trying to promote transgender gender theory to children is obviously bad. You 1.00

00:20:19.460 obviously should not be doing this, but this is a CBC program. This is on CBC kids.

00:20:25.820 This book is about how Evelyn accepts her older sibling, Tessa, for who they are. All summer long,

00:20:34.520 Tessa listens to music in the dark and yells at Evelyn when she knocks on the door. When Tessa

00:20:40.880 finally comes out, Tessa says, I'm not your sister anymore. Just call me your sibling.

00:20:47.800 Yeah, you can see where that's going. I don't want to play too much of it, again, just in

00:20:52.000 case they try and slap me for copyright. Yeah, that's gross. That's gross to be sharing that

00:20:57.200 with children. And anyone who cannot understand why this book ban, which is not really a book

00:21:03.480 ban, it's basically saying don't share inappropriate materials with children, this is all obviously

00:21:09.160 required. And the fact that nobody can actually get a good argument off against this thing is

00:21:13.740 rather telling. But anyways, so that should be it for me today, guys. There's a lot more leftists I

00:21:22.220 could have highlighted who are going after this. Like, again, you're going to have people like MLA

00:21:26.320 Janice Irwin complaining about this. It's sensible. It's good policy. So many people are complaining

00:21:33.200 about it, not because they actually believe this is unreasonable. It's just because it's reducing

00:21:39.800 the actual hegemonic power they have over the education system. The left has a lot of influence

00:21:46.600 on education. And now that conservatives are taking that influence back, not replacing this

00:21:50.920 stuff with conservative books. They're just saying don't have this stuff in the libraries,

00:21:54.840 keep it neutral, that they're freaking out because conservatives and conservative parents are

00:21:59.220 asserting themselves on the school system. I'm not sure why it should have to be said. Classrooms are

00:22:05.680 about learning. It's not about ideology. And it's definitely not about gender ideology. And it's

00:22:10.680 definitely not about putting porn in book in libraries, in school libraries. I'm disgusted by

00:22:15.840 anyone who defends this stuff. It is ridiculous that people actually get out here and try and claim 0.90

00:22:22.500 that this is some sort of like censorship regime. These people support censorship. They support hate

00:22:27.600 speech laws. They support residential school denialist bills that would lock someone up for saying the

00:22:33.600 true things about the Kamloops grave hoax. These people don't care about free speech, but then

00:22:39.340 they'll pretend that they're big free speech warriors when somebody says maybe we shouldn't show explicit

00:22:44.340 things to children. It demonstrates that they just have a warped worldview. But anyways, so that's it for

00:22:51.400 me today, guys. I'll see you later. I actually have a show on Juno News now coming up. I actually don't have

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The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - July 15, 2025

Leftists MAD after Smith UCP bans explicit books in schools

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