GOP Tennessee Lawmaker Slammed After Admitting He'd 'Burn' Library Books He Found 'Obscene'

TN state Rep. John Ray Clemmons (D) asks Rep. Jerry Sexton (R) what he would want to do with the books that he finds "obscene" if House Bill 2666, the school censorship bill he co-sponsors, is enacted into law.\n\nSexton: "I would burn them."pic.twitter.com/DNMhTzWpmj

— Heartland Signal (@Heartland Signal) 1651084219

It was always just a matter of time before @GOP would want to burn the books. They're coming for our schools and they're coming for the books. \n\nCc #Virginia @GovernorVA @JasonMiyaresVA @VA_GOP https://twitter.com/HeartlandSignal/status/1519383457054478339\u00a0\u2026pic.twitter.com/JrT0Vj4Eoi

— Aryeh \u05d0\u05e8\u05d9\u05d4 \u963f\u8449 (@Aryeh \u05d0\u05e8\u05d9\u05d4 \u963f\u8449) 1651153162

MAGA Republicans are making plans to burn books\u2014you can't make this up.https://twitter.com/HeartlandSignal/status/1519383457054478339?s=20&t=LRWFGjIDs-Ei5g4fiNr_jw\u00a0\u2026

— CAP Action (@CAP Action) 1651151040

Why do people equate the GOP with Nazis? Maybe because they have the same go to ideas?https://twitter.com/kkruesi/status/1519364632082894848\u00a0\u2026

— spot (@spot) 1651082229

Screaming about how their freedom of speech is being oppressed while they burn books. Their freedom isn't under threat - their domination is. Fascists can't function any other way.\n\nThese people are becoming more and more detached--https://www.rawstory.com/republican-book-burning/\u00a0\u2026

— Bitch Pudding (@Bitch Pudding) 1651152199

Trumplicans keep screaming about free speech on a privately owned platform, while advocating book burning by the government. Guess which one is unconstitutional? Hint: It's not Twitter.https://twitter.com/kkruesi/status/1519364632082894848\u00a0\u2026

— Tink53 (@Tink53) 1651089282

This is getting awkward. Nazis in '30 Germany burned books written by Jewish philosophers and scientists and such because they were Jewish. The made-up "enemy". \n\nSeems like republicans are trying to outfascist the Nazi's by pushing burning math bookshttps://www.rawstory.com/republican-book-burning/\u00a0\u2026

— herbert rietveld (@herbert rietveld) 1651146826

It\u2019s important to understand that fascists friendly politicians are small people who have found the lowest path to importance.\n\nGOP for decades has propped up these small people puppets because they are easily controlled. They forget they\u2019re just puppets.https://www.rawstory.com/republican-book-burning/\u00a0\u2026

— Watching the Wheels (@Watching the Wheels) 1651152983

To some Harry Potter is inappropriate, others Alice in Wonderland and still others Winnie the Pooh. \n\nJust saying inappropriate is too vague. \n\nWhen we ban books targeted to children, we are turning them away from reading. This has to stop.https://twitter.com/kkruesi/status/1519364632082894848\u00a0\u2026

— Sarah Tomkinson (@Sarah Tomkinson) 1651116276

Sexton has watched Fahrenheit too many times. Republicans are all going Fing nuts.https://twitter.com/kkruesi/status/1519364632082894848\u00a0\u2026

— Donnalee (@Donnalee) 1651140281

No one should hold public office if they want to put America on the path of Nazi Germany. #RepublicansAreDestroyingAmericahttps://twitter.com/kkruesi/status/1519364632082894848\u00a0\u2026

— Edge (@Edge) 1651087843