Leftists MAD after Smith UCP bans explicit books in schools
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In this episode, we cover the outrage from the leftist reaction to Alberta's ban on sexually explicit books in schools, and why it's not censorship, it's moral decency. We also cover the fact that the Bible is not sexually explicit.
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Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. One of the most enjoyable aspects of this story we're about to
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cover is how predictable it was that leftists were going to become extremely angry after Alberta
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Premier Danielle Smith's UCP government banned sexually explicit books in schools. Guys, you
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don't want to be on this side of the argument. You do not want to be defending these books,
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pretending that you're standing against censorship. This is not censorship. This is basic moral
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decency when it comes to the sorts of materials that children can get a hold of. Anyways, we're
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going to dive into the story going over all the arguments that leftists are making against Smith's
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government. But before I get into it, I just want to remind you guys, make sure if you like the channel
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to leave a like on this video, leave a comment on what you think about it, and subscribe if you are
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not yet a subscriber. But before I get to the leftist reactions, I just want to cut over to
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Alberta Education Minister Demetrios Nikolaides, who does a good job of presenting what this policy is.
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To announce that we have created a balanced province-wide standard to ensure
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school library materials are age-appropriate and free of sexually explicit content. I am confident
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that these new standards strike the right balance of supporting the important role school boards,
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librarians, teachers, and staff play in selecting school library materials while setting clear
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expectations as it relates to sexual content. Under the new standards, school libraries are not
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permitted to include material containing explicit sexual content. Non-explicit sexual content may be
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accessed to students in grades 10 and above, provided it is age-appropriate. School boards must also
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regularly review their school library collections, publish a full list of all available materials,
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and ensure that a staff member supervises student access to school library materials.
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I think it was important for you guys to hear that. We don't need to listen to the rest of it,
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but this is an extremely reasonable policy that we don't want young children getting their hands on
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sexually explicit material and even things that are not exactly graphic still should be restricted for
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grades 10 and above, and they should still have to, you know, pass through some level of supervision to
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make sure it's not like, you know, gross romance novels getting thrown into high school libraries that
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frankly nobody should read. But I now need to cut over to the left who are trying to paint this as like
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book burning, that they are trying to, you know, restrict access to materials that humanizes gay people or
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whatever. Guys, it's not, this ain't the argument you should be making. Honestly, the Alberta left, and a lot of the
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people I'm going to be talking about today aren't exactly on the left in terms of Alberta, they're from other
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provinces, but the Alberta left is absolutely burying themselves these days. Alberta NDP, leader Nahid Nenshi,
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seems to be on a quest to alienate everybody from his party. Yes, his party is in fact calling this a book banning,
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some of the more radical MLAs in this caucus are sounding off about this, because apparently it's
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deeply necessary to have books like Genderqueer in classrooms and in libraries, where it just openly
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depicts sexual acts of minors, by the way. That's something that for some reason we need in schools, and
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it's on top of things like Nenshi trying to ban coal mining in Alberta, a great thing to do when your
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party's basis was supposedly workers, you know, blue collar workers, let's just ban an entire industry
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that those people work in, and also let's make it so that their children can read pornography in schools.
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But here is the first leftist we're going to talk about today, one of your favorites, Frank Dominic,
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who for some reason is in fact a school teacher in Ontario, and has openly bragged in the past of
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teaching gender theory and socialism to young children in his English class. He teaches English,
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and for some reason he needs to teach these things in an English class. It just demonstrates the leftist
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mentality. Everything must be about their causes and their issues, even when it literally has nothing
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to do with the subject matter that they're supposed to be teaching or engaging with. But here's Frank
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Dominic sounding off about it. The conservatives in Alberta are banning books in schools, because
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that's exactly what a freedom-loving government does, with them deciding to ban all books that
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are deemed as sexually explicit, except, of course, the Bible. And as somebody who grew up in a Catholic
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school, I can guarantee you that the most violent and sexually explicit book in our school at any time
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was the Bible. Well, back in those days, you didn't have books like genderqueer in the library.
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And also, no, the Bible is not sexually explicit. Even things like the Song of Solomon are not
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sexually explicit. If anything, the Bible tends to use euphemistic language to not be needlessly
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vulgar. That is just how it's written, because the point is not to, you know, describe anything that
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is, you know, not safe for work. That is not in the Bible. It's like, oh, it's violent. Yeah, because it
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talks about wars, and it talks about people being killed and whatnot. It is not the most violent or
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sexually explicit book, probably even in school back when he was a kid. And again, he's here acting
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like it's so crazy. They're claiming these are sexually explicit. They are. I cannot talk about
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what are in those books without having this video be demonetized. You will have people go in front of
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a legislature, or they will go in front of a school board, and they will start showing images from
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these books or describing them. And the speaker or the chair will have to say, can you please stop?
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This is a little gross for this meeting. It's like, yeah. And that means that we probably shouldn't be
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letting eight-year-olds read it. But again, he's just going to pretend like, oh, they're claiming it.
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But that doesn't actually mean it's true. It's true, guys. It's true.
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But all books with explicit content will be removed, and libraries will also no longer be
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permitted to provide students in grade nine or below material that contains non-explicit material.
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One of the core tenets in grade nine English classes across the country is Shakespeare,
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like Romeo and Juliet. Those would no longer be allowed in schools. Although I wonder what kind of-
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No, that- No. Is there sexual activity spoken about in those books or referred to? Yes. I was in
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grade nine at one point. I read those books. Guess what? You read them in a classroom setting,
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it's very old, like older, like English-style writing, where nobody is really, like, reading it,
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seeing that this is, like, smut that they're reading. And again, usually Shakespeare, you're
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reading as a class collectively, with context and historical references being given for things like
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...of exceptions they're going to make for stuff that they deem to be important for the culture,
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the white Anglo-Saxon culture. You might have seen that they're also going to ban books.
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You know, we can keep stuff around that supports white Anglo-Saxon culture. Frank, the person who
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wrote the book, Genderqueer, is whiter than Mayonnaise. Who cares if the writer is white? We
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just don't want the writer to be crazy. And again, we're not talking about someone referencing
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sex in a book. We are talking about porn in schools. We do not want pornography in schools.
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Doesn't matter if it's drawn or it's literally depicted. We don't want that stuff. In fact,
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we probably need less of it in life in general. But the guy is just, again, not wanting to actually
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engage with what is specifically being banned. He's just being a weasel, because Frank is consistently
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always a weasel, trying to basically, like, take snide jabs at other books that technically could be
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banned. But nobody, no reasonable human being actually thinks should be banned.
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It involved handholding, but that seems to be a mistake, as non-sexual content, including
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menstruation, puberty, romantic relationships, including handholding and kissing, will still
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be allowed. Once again, though, only for students' grades 10 to 12. Oh, and the government's going to
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deem whether or not a book is developmentally appropriate for students. The Ministry of Education
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then went on to say this was never about banning books, other than the books that are being banned.
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Yeah, porn. Things that are showing sexual activity cannot be in schools. Of course,
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the Bible will not be affected. And there's a lot of classic literature that you read as a kid that
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will probably be banned because of this. It's not. Can he actually point to a single book that anyone
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is calling to be banned? And him acting, like, upset, or him feigning, feigning, like, indignation that
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the government is going to determine what books are allowed to be in schools? The government already
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does that. That is why you even have librarians who are in place with specific rules on what books
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that they add. There is going to be an authority saying whether or not that book can be in schools
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or not. You have school boards. You have, again, authorities within schools. He's acting like some
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big, like, library free marketer or something where, let all the books be in all the schools. It's like,
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he doesn't actually believe that because Frank Dominic supports hate speech legislation. He is
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not somebody who actually believes the things he is saying. I said this in a short I uploaded
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yesterday. This is what we call concern trolling. He is pretending he cares when he does not. Does he
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actually think this is a book banning? No. He just likes the books that are being banned. And so he is
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going to act like this is somehow just books being banned for political reasons. And when I say
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it's not a book banning but books are being banned, I'm saying that books that any adult can go purchase
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still are not allowed to be in schools where the material is inappropriate. This isn't like books that
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are not allowed to be sold in the province of Alberta. You can buy them if you're a weirdo. You can do
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that. But it would be like saying that, like, it's restricting your freedom or it's restricting a
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child's freedom not to be able to drink alcohol. And we have an alcohol ban. We don't. You just can't
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drink under the age of 18 in the province of Alberta. That's not an alcohol ban. This is not
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a book ban. This is saying you cannot show pornography to children. You cannot show that stuff to children.
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But yeah. Okay, I'm going to move on because he's just going to keep reiterating the same point over
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and over again as if he is actually getting to the bottom of something. He is not. I want to jump over
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to this other thing I just queued up yesterday of the Alberta leftist talking head, the breakdown,
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trying to, again, without giving detail, just like Frank did not, pretend like this is censorship.
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He literally even has in the corner of the screen a bunch of books with the word censored over them.
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Have they actually been censored? Or are you not allowed to show content that is illegal to show
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to children to children? We are basically enforcing the law. You are not allowed to show graphic,
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you're not allowed to show indecent imagery to children. That can get you arrested in many places.
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And now that we are enforcing that rule in schools, at the behest of parents who are outraged by this
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material being in schools, now this is censorship. And it's such an overreach. And it's, it's all just so
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bad. We're going to get into the book bans. But in order to have a conversation about the UCP's book
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bans, the Demetrius Nicolaitis announced on Monday, there are some things that we're going to have to address.
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And this conversation is not going to be comfortable.
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defending sexual imagery being shown to children. I can, I can understand how Nate Pike here feels
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uncomfortable arguing in favor of something that is morally depraved.
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But I guess he's just going to have to live with his depraved opinions, making him feel a little
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uncomfortable, a little less comfy saying, and the next part I want to get to, this is why I want to
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show you it. He like basically demonstrates that this is not an attack on anybody, that this is not
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going after the gay or trans community. In fact, this is common sense policy that anyone can agree
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there's no way to have this conversation comfortably. So if you're able to stick through
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it, I think it's a very important conversation, we wouldn't be having this conversation on the show,
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if it wasn't critically important, if it wasn't being horribly misrepresented.
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And if we hadn't gotten inundated with messages from folks since the announcement came out.
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Um, and I feel like before we get into the, the, the content part of the, the segment, um,
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I don't really know how to thread this needle. I'm going to be honest. I really, really don't.
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You should just not have a show then if talking is hard for you and you're talking based career,
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stop talking, how to thread this needle. Um, one of the things that I've heard from, from multiple
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people is there is a performative piece that seems to be being utilized. Uh, there seems to be
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individuals that are being chosen and elevated specifically because of their, um, uh, sexual
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orientation. And there's a lot of folks I've heard from in the last four or five days from the LGBTQ2S
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plus community who are expressing an incredible amount of frustration and incredible amount of
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hurt because there are people who are part of their community who instead of
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just say stick, staying on the plantation and saying the acceptable community opinions.
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He's such a hack. He's such a pathetic hack. You're describing gay people who also think
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that the content is inappropriate, that maybe teaching gender theory in the classroom and in
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school literature is bad. That's what he's trying to say here. That's what's so disgusting.
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Eva Kuronova, other people who are gay can easily have problems with explicit material being given
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to eight-year-olds. That is not difficult to do. And him, his humming and hawing here and neighing at
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the camera about how he is, oh, it's so difficult for me to do this. Is it, is it neighing? Or are you
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not an adult? Or are you somebody who doesn't have well thought out opinions? You're just regurgitating
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leftist trash and it's making you uncomfortable because you realize somewhere deep in your
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heart that you're probably wrong. Speaking about evidence, speaking about lived experience,
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there, the, the term that I have heard used and was asked to use, and I'm really uncomfortable
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with this because I'm as, as I've said many times on the show, I am as vanilla on the, the spectrum as
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you can possibly be. I am a straight, um, cisgendered, middle-aged white guy.
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Well, apparently he's also uncomfortable in this video because he has to just denounce himself
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before the video starts. He's struck, he's in a self-imposed struggle session over, over the
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community apparently wanting him to say stuff that he's uncomfortable saying and he's gonna,
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gonna have to say it anyways, apparently. And so it's really uncomfortable for me to
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use my voice to speak to issues for communities that I am not a member of. And I want to be really
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clear. I wouldn't be doing this if I hadn't been asked by so many people to make it clear. The pick
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me's are a problem. They really, really are. There are people who are so desperate for attention,
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who are so desperate for power or worse proximity to power, that they will turn their backs on their
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own communities. And it's sad and it's deeply, deeply hurt a lot of people. And so I wanted to
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get that out of the way because. Yeah, he's being a hack. And this is the most common leftist thing I
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hear when somebody from their own community disagrees with them. So from somebody, not exactly even from
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their own community, because I hate when we keep talking about people as communities, as if they're
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not individuals. But every time somebody who by leftist orthodoxy, in theory, should be agreeing
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with them, doesn't. You're, you're a shill. You're, you've been paid off. You want power. You're greedy.
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You're selfish. It's pathetic. He come with a real argument in hand, Nate. Stop coming with your hat
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in hand saying, oh, I'm uncomfortable doing it. Then stop it. Oh, I wouldn't be doing this unless
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I was told to do it. You were handed the talking stick and now you're going to say a bunch of stupid
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crap for all these people who couldn't say it themselves. He doesn't even have a big show.
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Like a couple hundred people maybe watch this guy and every once in a while, a hacky professor
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will share him because he says like, you know, offensively correct opinions by the leftist worldview.
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In fact, although they actually are fairly offensive opinions when you dig down to what
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these people are defending. But I want to show some stuff that I believe, I'm, I'm, I'm wondering
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if I should show this just because it was going to potentially get like censored by the CBC.
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I'm going to instead going to jump over to the people that he is trying to tokenize and basically
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say these people are just offering up themselves for power, for attention, for all this stuff.
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Here are two lesbians appalled by all the gay books that these libraries are hosting.
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I think that, aren't these people trying to do it for power and attention? Look at this.
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We're gay, but we're in Barnes and Nobles and there's a kid's book section, a gay kid's book
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Okay. There's the gay BCs, right? Bye, bye, binary. Bye, bye, binary with a mohawk on a baby.
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Gay BCs. You're not ready. Hold this. Okay. What? A is for arrow and ace. B is for bi. This is crazy.
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We're gay, but this is crazy. What? For a baby? Okay. E is for equality. We'll take that.
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F is for family. Okay. We're getting better. Okay. Why did it start so crazy? It got better.
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I is for intersex. It's pushing it. For a baby, this is pushing it. J is for joy. J is for joy.
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We'll take, we'll take Tio and Tio. That looks nice. Forgot this one. K is for Kiki.
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But the, like, again, they're not even talking about the sexually explicit books, but the way that this
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stuff gets just forced on people. It is everywhere for no reason. I think I will show it. I want to
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show the CBC segment. These, again, these are what I would dub as groomer books and groomer content.
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It is normalizing things that are not, it's not, it's not even not the norm, but, like, obviously
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bad for kids. Like, trying to promote transgender gender theory to children is obviously bad. You
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obviously should not be doing this, but this is a CBC program. This is on CBC kids.
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This book is about how Evelyn accepts her older sibling, Tessa, for who they are. All summer long,
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Tessa listens to music in the dark and yells at Evelyn when she knocks on the door. When Tessa
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finally comes out, Tessa says, I'm not your sister anymore. Just call me your sibling.
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Yeah, you can see where that's going. I don't want to play too much of it, again, just in
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case they try and slap me for copyright. Yeah, that's gross. That's gross to be sharing that
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with children. And anyone who cannot understand why this book ban, which is not really a book
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ban, it's basically saying don't share inappropriate materials with children, this is all obviously
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required. And the fact that nobody can actually get a good argument off against this thing is
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rather telling. But anyways, so that should be it for me today, guys. There's a lot more leftists I
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could have highlighted who are going after this. Like, again, you're going to have people like MLA
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Janice Irwin complaining about this. It's sensible. It's good policy. So many people are complaining
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about it, not because they actually believe this is unreasonable. It's just because it's reducing
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the actual hegemonic power they have over the education system. The left has a lot of influence
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on education. And now that conservatives are taking that influence back, not replacing this
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stuff with conservative books. They're just saying don't have this stuff in the libraries,
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keep it neutral, that they're freaking out because conservatives and conservative parents are
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asserting themselves on the school system. I'm not sure why it should have to be said. Classrooms are
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about learning. It's not about ideology. And it's definitely not about gender ideology. And it's
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definitely not about putting porn in book in libraries, in school libraries. I'm disgusted by
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anyone who defends this stuff. It is ridiculous that people actually get out here and try and claim
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that this is some sort of like censorship regime. These people support censorship. They support hate
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speech laws. They support residential school denialist bills that would lock someone up for saying the
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true things about the Kamloops grave hoax. These people don't care about free speech, but then
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they'll pretend that they're big free speech warriors when somebody says maybe we shouldn't show explicit
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things to children. It demonstrates that they just have a warped worldview. But anyways, so that's it for
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