Below is a link to Part 2 of an ongoing series about the continuing saga of age inappropriate books in Polk County Public Schools. Please read Part 1 if you have not read it yet.
Read Part 2 here https://robertgoodman.substack.com/p/its-not-working-part-2-the-book-banning
Excerpt: No doubt you’ve heard the term “Book Banners”. It is true that throughout history, many dictators banned or burned books. We’ll discuss that in Part 3. However, when you hear it in relation to removing a book with graphic sex from a public school library, the term “Book Banning” is a LIE. It is PROPAGANDA.
Joseph Goebbels, minister of propaganda for the Nazi German government of the Third Reich, understood the power of repeating falsehoods. Goebbels asserted “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” This phenomenon, pervasive in contemporary politics, advertising, and social media, is known in cognitive psychology as the “Illusory Truth Effect.” You may have heard a similar quote “Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth”.