1. According to Danielle Smith it’s not a book ban, just an order banning certain books
2. The order written in July by Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides contained such explicit description of the kind of sexual activities that should not be present in Albertan school library books, that it itself would be subject to the ban it was ordering
3. The order originally applied to any book containing explicit sexual material, but that had to be revised when Albertan librarians discovered how horny some of the world’s best writers are
4. It is now being reworked to protect “the classics” while eliminating pornography because, as the U.S. Supreme Court once said, “I don’t know how to define pornography, but I know it wasn’t written before 1995”
5. The goal is to stop young kids from seeing explicit sexual images, and the ban applies to high schoolers too because at that point they’ve seen so much stuff on the internet that the passages in these books would just be boring by comparison
6. The majority of books singled out by Smith’s government as being inappropriate contained LGBTQ themes and plots, a fact that would only be relevant if Smith had a history of attacking that community for political gain
7. The Government hasn’t said what they plan to do with the books they ban, but they have said they will let us know once wildfire season is over and it’s safe to have bonfires again
