Mysterious woman tells school board that Scholastic book sparked porn addiction

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Mysterious woman tells school board that Scholastic book sparked porn addiction
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“ Burkhardt's appearance was promoted by SkyTree Book Fairs, a newly formed organization marketing itself as "an alternative to the sexually explicit content distributed in Scholastic's book fairs."”

Hmmm, so this was a marketing ploy?

She's literally their marketing officer

Why would anyone listen to this degenerate porn-addled lady.

To be fair, "Degenerate Porn-Addled Lady" is probably really cool.

This woman, however, is not DPAL and wants to ban books, because she likes the completely unrelated thing: porn. If that's all it takes, I like pizza, so we should ban the Bible.

Sadly, they did:

Burkhardt's gambit has already had an impact. The Conroe school board, after listening to her story, voted to restrict access to Drama, the Scholastic book featuring a kiss, from all students in the 8th grade and below. One of the school board members, Melissa Dungan, suggested replacing Scholastic with SkyTree Book Fairs. "All glory to God," Burkhardt posted in response to the news.

I hope Scholastic sues them into oblivion.

Yeah, a marketing ploy by a fascist organization:

While SkyTree Book Fairs presents itself as an independent non-profit organization, it appears to be a hastily assembled offshoot of Brave Books, which publishes children's books by right-wing pundits and pseudo-celebrities.

Fuckin gross.

And there it is, ayup. These people are doing quite the full court press to drag us back into the 50s.

(1950s? Or 1850s. You decide)

That sadly worked:

Burkhardt's gambit has already had an impact. The Conroe school board, after listening to her story, voted to restrict access to Drama, the Scholastic book featuring a kiss, from all students in the 8th grade and below. One of the school board members, Melissa Dungan, suggested replacing Scholastic with SkyTree Book Fairs. "All glory to God," Burkhardt posted in response to the news.