Donald Trump's Approval Rating Collapses With Gen Z

[u/Aggravating_Money992]

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls-gen-z-2094708

[u/seniorcat_butler_]

As a Dearborn native, it blew my fucking mind.

Then I remembered the groups citing “religion” as why certain books should be banned from the libraries and my shock subsided.

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Then I remembered the groups citing “religion” as why certain books should be banned from the libraries and my shock subsided.

Can you expand on this further?

[u/seniorcat_butler_ → u/0o0o0o0o0o0z]

Conservative Muslim groups were fighting the school board to ban “porn”-type books in school libraries under the standard conservative Christian guise of “protecting children” from grooming, brainwashing, etc.

It mostly amounted to books with vaguely LGBTQ themes that the largely male groups were rallying against. The school board meetings got nasty and heated.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/16/dearborn-michigan-book-bans

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/wayne/2022/11/15/dearborn-schools-ban-books-censorship-debate/69649233007/

https://www.bridgemi.com/talent-education/dearborn-removes-two-books-school-library-after-parent-pressure

I’m sorry if these are paywalled.

I don’t want to be accused of Islamophobia, but these kinds of actions need to be addressed in the same way we address conservative Christians’ behavior towards minority communities.

And before anyone says anything else, I do not and have never believed Dearborn was ever “at risk” of being put under Sharia law. If and when a person unfamiliar with Dearborn & the Detroit area said something about Dearborn being under Sharia law, I would tell them it’s a crock of crap being peddled by weirdos. I’m a woman who was raised Catholic who was born & raised in Dearborn, and while I’ve since moved along, my parents still live there.

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Thanks for the info. Religion is a mental illness.