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INTEREST: Texas Republican Rep Cites Goblin Slayer As "Obscene" Book To Ban From Schools

He also did not specify whether he was referring to Kumo Kagyu's Goblin Slayer novel series or Kōsuke Kurose's manga adaptation.

Political brainrot aside, I'm not sure how anyone could realistically contest with someone's concern of children reading Goblin Slayer at a public school library. It doesn't seem like a hill worth dying on.

Anyone who believes this is acceptable is mentally ill. We will be going after the vendors that sold this trash to Texas children.

I also wonder if Goblin Slayer had LQBT+ approval stamp if series depicted blanks sexual acts among minors that it gets free pass because LGBT+ Things should not get pass just because.

Look up "whataboutism," and also realize that your complaints apply to an extreme minority of content releases that often aren't even the direct fault of the companies you're attributing them to.

And yeah, as others pointed out, he said they'll be going after the vendors, so if he gets his way, kids will not be able to buy Goblin Slayer at their local B&N.

He did not say which Texas schools had Goblin Slayer in their book collection.

1. Pointing out hypocrisy is not 'whataboutism'. That term has become such a bane for critical discussion in how people misuse it. If people are going to be snarky and say things like the Right are the actual pushers cancel culture then it should be completely fair to correct people and point out most cases of actual censorship are done to manga and anime we know is done at the distribution level by people who identify as progressive, such as the censorship made to Kodansha USA's newest Shaman King release.

2. I would assume vendors in this case can mean the libraries and schools themselves who stocked it unless you can provide more detailed sources. It sounds as if people are 100% fearmongering if they're trying to push a narrative that people aren't going to be able buy these books elsewhere. Do people honestly think Amazon wont ship these books to Texas residents, or that Crunchyroll would ban and block this content from Texas IP addresses if they tried to watch Goblin Slayer on Crunchyroll? Is there a precedence for that already I am not aware of? Not even the most commonly banned books like To Kill a Mockingbird have gotten that level of treatment, just being dropped from a school's required reading curriculum.

Please name public school in America that has bibles? I not American but lived in America on and off long enough to know seperate in of church and state from democrats would be total hell if any public school had bibles available to students.

Just labeling the entire fan base of a series as mentally ill for the series containing a few controversial scenes is a problem in and of itself.
But the real concern is that promising to go after vendors is very alarming as that's the sort of thing that results in censorship. Real censorship as in brick and mortar book stores refusing to carry a series for fear of being not just being sued but fear of being criminally charged. Digital stores doing the same thing. The publisher discontinuing the series to avoid dealing with the legal issues and the negative publicity. Even the publisher discontinuing or censoring other series that may be at risk of similar accusations.

In other words, he's not concerned about controversial material being in school libraries, he's objecting to it existing at all. While using the fear of it being in school libraries to justify his desire for larger censorship, despite it being really easy to keep out of school libraries.

GrayArchon wrote:

Just labeling the entire fan base of a series as mentally ill for the series containing a few controversial scenes is a problem in and of itself. But the real concern is that promising to go after vendors is very alarming as that's the sort of thing that results in censorship. Real censorship as in brick and mortar book stores refusing to carry a series for fear of being not just being sued but fear of being criminally charged. Digital stores doing the same thing. The publisher discontinuing the series to avoid dealing with the legal issues and the negative publicity. Even the publisher discontinuing or censoring other series that may be at risk of similar accusations. In other words, he's not concerned about controversial material being in school libraries, he's objecting to it existing at all. While using the fear of it being in school libraries to justify his desire for larger censorship, despite it being really easy to keep out of school libraries.

These are the exact same fears people have been talking about for years now, only back then people were told they were overreacting, called anti-industry, grifters, and a lot of other choice words. These tactics also sound very similar: insulting an entire fanbase and painting them as dangerous? You couldn't go one post without being called an incel or misogynist if you were fans of shows like Darling in the Franxx, Cross Ange, Shield Hero, Redo of Healer, or even milquetoast works like Welcome to the Ballroom. And fears of publishers self-censoring things or pulling distribution out of fears of negative publicity this might cause? That one sounds the most familiar of all. After being told for years that criticism and pressuring publishers to change things was fine, and that censorship was within the rights of any given market, suddenly now it's a concern because it's going to affect the books these people read? I believe it was one of Anime News Network's This Week in Games articles that had this to say about censorship complaints: "All that's worth saying about the matter is that people recognized something bad, discussed it, and want to change it. Case closed. Move on."

The Bible does not contain graphic sexual depictions. It does have laws punishing certain sexual immorality. You may not like it, but if you want to be so 'puritanical' about it in the liberal sense, then practically all history books and non-fiction and even fiction and codes of law will be problematic to you if it so much as contains someone at some point being negative about your particular modern concern.

I don't know but aren't there 18 year olds in high school? Wouldn't the ban block their access to the book which they are legally able to read?