It's all about how you define porn, I suppose. In a dispute over a statewide ballot initiative in Ohio, a group opposing it has identified a group supporting it as "porn moms." A "fact" checker for Cleveland.com claims they can't be "porn moms" because there is no porn in schools... even though the "fact" checker's words don't back that up.

Forty-nine out of fifty states don't care about the ballot initiative and we're here to laugh at "fact" checkers, so here is the tl;dr. There is a ballot initiative to amend the state constitution. Conservatives oppose it. Leftists support it, including an organization called "Red Wine and Blue." They are suburban leftist women who support whatever is the important progressive cause that week. In a mailer, a conservative group called them "porn moms," a colloquialism to describe how they support having sexually explicit books in schools that are often, and I say this in finger quotes, "banned."

We don't need to recap the book "banning" thing. It's the same books that normie-American parents think are inappropriate in schools and that progressive-Americans claim are being "banned" even though you can order them on Amazon and have them delivered in a few hours.

Okay, Cleveland.com, you're up:

Red Wine & Blue... seeks to build support for liberal causes among suburban women in swing states, [and] publicly opposes book bans and offers access to banned books, such as Maia Kobabe’s Gender Queer: A Memoir and Juno Dawson’s This Book is Gay, according to the Red Wine & Blue website.

The argument, I think, is that because RWB doesn't call themselves "porn moms" that means they are not porn moms. Being a "porn mom" would mean you support porn in schools. And that is not the case here. There is no porn in schools. There are only award-winning books.

However...

Gender Queer ... has been a frequent target of those seeking to ban minors from accessing controversial books. The award-winning graphic novel ... is a memoir that includes depictions of oral sex. While there are several pages of sexually explicit material...

Here is one of those several pages:

As I said at the beginning, it is all about how you define pornography. Personally, and this is merely one man's opinion, I draw the line at penetration.

"Sexually explicit" is an R-rated movie. Or something you would see on Skinemax. Having your mouth on someone else's weiner is porno. If I showed you that photo and didn't tell you it was an award-winning author on the LGBTQAIIP+EIEIO spectrum, you would think it came from a porn site and that people who want it in schools are weird.

It is all a matter of opinion. And if it wasn't for nitpicking over rhetoric or criticizing opinions they disagree with, "independent" "fact" checkers wouldn't have a job.

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