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[-] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 172 points 1 year ago

“ 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?

[-] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 133 points 1 year ago

She's literally their marketing officer

[-] Eh_I@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 14 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Sweetpeaches69@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

What an embarrassing thing to put on the resumé

[-] frezik@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

If it works, she'll never need another job, anyway.

[-] Redhotkurt@kbin.social 94 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

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)

Scholastic should sue the living shit out of all of them.

[-] Sweetpeaches69@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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.

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