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Essay: Worst Liberal Books

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|Eric Schlosser
|The book dehumanizes fast food chains such as McDonald's, Taco Bell, etc. and accuses them of animal cruelty and environmental violations.
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|''Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House''
|Michael Wolff
|The book is nothing more than an attack piece on the Trump presidency, with not only Trump and his cabinet denouncing the book as "complete fiction" and a complete fabrication, but even various leftist reviewers dismissing it as tabloid material.
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|''Gender Queer''
|Maia Kebab
|Disgusting and pornographic memoir that celebrates [[homosexual values]] and makes the absurd claim that being non-binary is an actual thing and not a delusion. What's more disgusting is that it's advertised as a children's book, despite including graphic sexual images that are plucked right out of a pornographic movie.
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|''[[The God Delusion]]''
|[[Michel Foucault]]
|Blatantly promotes the homosexual agenda, and also engages in obvious historical revisionism (in particular, his view of ''mores'' in Ancient Greece is widely inaccurate).
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|''Leisureville: Adventures in a World Without Children''
|[[Andrew D. Blechman]]
|A hit piece on retirement communities in general, and specifically on [[The Villages, Florida]], the giant (and overwhelmingly conservative) Central [[Florida]] retirement community. The author also repeatedly shows his smoking fetish throughout the book.
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|''Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media''
|''Nuremberg and Vietnam: An American Tragedy''
|Telford Taylor
|This anti-American and anti-War novel, as implied by the title, was written by the author (who had himself previously participated in the [[Nuremberg Trials]]) in a deliberate attempt to connect the actions of American soldiers during the Vietnam War to that of Nazi German National Socialist war criminals and strongly implying that they should be tried as such. This is despite glaring errors and contradictions in his analysis, some of which ironically enough also relate to the Nuremberg Trials he himself had participated in.<ref>https://uakron.edu/dotAsset/ca5946e8-b2d6-43f9-a5ea-b6b98d73a461.pdf</ref>
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|''Of Life Before All Things''
|[[Abbie Hoffman]]
|Aside from the title of the book essentially encouraging people to commit theft, the entire book dealt with promoting the counter-culture of the 1960s, as well as conducting various amoral and illegal behavior. Was also pro-terrorism and pro-drugs (one of the things included in one of the chapters, "Fight!" was growing cannabis). One part even advocated tricking the [[United States Department of the Interior]] into giving someone a free [[Bison|American buffalo]]. Overall, it promoted radical leftist causes. It was notably so controversial that most publishing firms were unwilling to even touch the book, with one editor specifically stating that he wouldn't even let his own son read the book.
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|''Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality''
|Sarah McBride
|A memoir written by a gender-confused activist who is the National Press Secretary for the Human Rights Campaign.
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|''The Women's Bible''
|[[Elizabeth Cady Stanton]]
|Derides Christianity and the Bible as anathema to women's rights.
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|''Writings on an Ethical Life''
|[[Peter Singer]]
|The avowed [[Marxist]] [[atheist]] author pushes [[eugenics]] and [[Social Darwinism]] while hinting at his support for [[bestiality]].
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|''Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality''
|Sarah McBride
|A memoir written by a Transgender activist who is the National Press Secretary for the Human Rights Campaign.
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|''120 Nights of Sodom''
|[[Marquis de Sade]]
|This blasphemous novel glorifies depraved forms of sexual amorality. Its film adaptation resulted in a murder on opening day. Furthermore, the book was instrumental in the manner in which people's corpses were defiled after being guillotined during the French Revolution.
|Erotic Fiction
|1905
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|''A Day In the Life of Marlon Bundo''
|[[John Oliver]]
|The ''Last Week Tonight'' "comedian" John Oliver attacks vice president Vice President [[Mike Pence]] by making a more obscence an obscener version of his daughter's children's book (''Marlon Bundo's Day in the Life of the Vice President''). His book is a homosexual parody of the vice presidentVice President's pet rabbit, Marlon Bundo; he then claimed he would send proceeds from the book's sales to the Trevor Project, a pro-homosexual "charity" which encourages the enabling of harmful and destructive sexual behavior.<ref>[https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/john-oliver-mocks-mike-pences-daughters-bunny-book-with-a-better-version-featuring-gay-marriage/ John Oliver Mocks Mike Pence's Daughter's Bunny Book With a "Better" Version Featuring "Gay Marriage"] at PJ Media</ref>|Children's Literature, Political Fiction|2018|-|''The Awakening'' |[[Kate Chopin]]|This novel promotes [[feminism]], [[suicide]], and overall values that liberals hold near and dear to their hearts.||1899
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|''Catalyst''
|Laurie Halse Anderson
|The main character is an atheist as well as a feminist despite her father being a preacher. Her younger 14-year-old brother also watches porn and does drugs. It also contains incest.
|Young Adult
|2002
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|''[[The Catcher in the Rye]]''
|J. D. Salinger
|This beatnik novel glorifies atheism and teenage rebellion, possibly inspiring countless subsequent liberal novels as well as Mark Chapman's assassination of [[John Lennon]].<ref>Whitehead, John W. "Mark David Chapman, The Catcher In The Rye, And The Killing of John Lennon." October 3, 2000. https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/mark_david_chapman_the_catcher_in_the_rye_and_the_killing_of_john_lennon>.</ref><ref>Stashower, Daniel. "On First Looking into Chapman's Holden: Speculations on a Murder." January 3, 2010. https://theamericanscholar.org/on-first-looking-into-chapmans-holden-speculations-on-a-murder/#</ref><ref>Young, Greg. "MARK DAVID CHAPMAN’S MACABRE CRUSADE TO PROMOTE THE CATCHER IN THE RYE." January 5, 2015. http://1981.nyc/mark-david-chapmans-macabre-crusade-promote-catcher-rye/</ref>
|Realistic Fiction
|1951
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|''Death of a Salesman''
|[[Arthur Miller]]
|Lack of success in a career means try a different one, and is hardly a credible indictment of [[capitalism]]; [[materialism|materialistic]] [[atheism]] is what should be avoided.
|Tragedy
|1949
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|''The Dispossessed''
|[[Ursula K. Le Guin]]
|It insists that communism Communism will bring about a utopian society.||
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|''Emile: Or On Education''
|[[Jean Jacques Rousseau]]
|This pamphlet cted cited as a model for our current leftist-based education system and by extension [[Professor Values]]. It was so unchristian un-Christian that, alongside ''The Social Contract'', it resulted in not only the book being banned in France as well as Geneva until after his death but also in Rousseau being forced to flee the country and live in exile until returning in 1763 incognito within Southeast France. He officially returned in 1770 when the French government lifted his banishment from Paris under the condition that he does not publish any more books.<ref>http://www.philosophybasics.com/philosophers_rousseau.html</ref>||1762 (1763 in English)
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|''The Good Earth''
|[[Pearl S. Buck ]]
|The reasoning is similar to that listed for ''The Dispossessed''.
|Historical Fiction
|1931
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|''Heather Has Two Mommies''
|Leslea Newman
|This children's book exposed many young minds to LGBT themes as the main character is raised by two lesbians. Ironically, author Leslea Newman would later end up speaking against same-sex "marriage" after her experience with her husband.
|Children's Literature
|1989
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|''A Lesson Before Dying''
|Ernest J. Gaines
|The death penalty is painted negatively, and the main character is an outspoken atheist. Not only that but it is also pro-public school in the way the main character also teaches his students.
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|1993
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|''[[Philip Dru: Administrator]]''
|[[Edward M. House]]
|This futuristic political novel is filled with progressive dreams of revolution and bureaucratic administration.
|Political Novel
|1912
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|''The Perks of Being a Wallflower''
|Stephen Chbosky
|The main character is a homosexual, and everyone against his lifestyle is vilified.
|Young Adult
|1999
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|''[[Robin Hood]]''
|[[Joseph Ritson]]
|This version of the classic literary hero was notorious for rewriting the hero's motives from returning overtaxed income to the people who actually earned their income into blatant Jacobin propaganda (as the French Revolution was occurring at the time Ritson wrote the book), including promoting wealth redistribution with the claim that Robin Hood "stole from the rich to give to the poor."
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|''Seekers''(or ''Seeker Bears'')
|Erin Hunter
|A companion of the more popular ''Warriors'' series, this book series containing two arcs of six books tells of three North American bears ([[polar bear ]] Kallik, [[American black bear ]] Lusa, and [[grizzly bear ]] Toklo) as they journey with a shapeshifting grizzly bear cub named Ujurak as they try to save the wild from being ruined. The series portrays a more heavy heavier environmental message than ''Warriors'', with heavy emphasis on how humans are causing the animals to suffersuch as emphasizing polar bears suffering from melting ice. ''The Last Wilderness'' - the fourth book of the first arc - seems to condemn capitalism by portraying most of the people in favor of drilling oil in the arctic as either evil or at least naïve, and the sixth and final book in the same arc - ''Spirits in the Stars'' - also has a moment of [[ecoterrorism]] near the end, the animals destroying an oil drill and portraying it at the right thing to do. The second and final arc - ''Return to the Wild'' - is tamer in condemning humans compared to the first arc (such as when Lusa ends up being briefly cared for in a local an animal sanctuaryin ''The Burning Horizon''), though some of it still comes up.It is also the first of Erin Hunter's works to finally finish its series, the second being ''Survivors'' (another two-arc book series about dogs surviving an earthquake in the city).|Xenofiction Fantasy|2008-2016
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|''Shift''
|Jennifer Bradbury
|The wealthy parents are bad, the poor parents are caring, the wealthy family's son blows away his opportunity to go to Harvard, and FBI agents are depicted as evil henchmen. Additionally, there are brief parts that poke fun at the great conservative novel, ''[[Lord of the Rings]]''.|||-|''The Story of O''|Anne Desclos (as Pauline Réage)|Inspired by the works of the [[Marquis de Sade]], this is a sexually immoral novel about a woman who willingly becomes the "ultimate sexual submissive", which involves her engaging in [[BDSM]] and [[Homosexual]] activities. Seen as an essential work to the morally depraved "[[BDSM]] community". |Erotic Novel|1954
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|''The Turner Diaries''
|William Luther Pierce (as Andrew Macdonald)
|A violent revolution leads to the overthrow of the American government, a nuclear war, and finally, a race war perpetrated by white supremacists. The [[Southern Poverty Law Center ]] calls it the "bible of the racist right", while failing to realize that racism is a historical and current problem of the political leftLeft, not the right. It inspired [[Timothy McVeigh]]'s Oklahoma City Bombing due to it resembling the book's bombing of the FBI headquarters (contrary to liberal reports, however, the racist elements in the book played no role in the bombing).|Fiction|1978|-|''Wings of Fire''|Tui Sutherland|''Wings of Fire'' is a book series containing 15 books and counting, chronicling the lives, prophecies, and wars of seven [[dragon]] kingdoms on the continent of Pyrrhia. The first five books tell of five young dragons prophesized to stop a civil war among three desert-dwelling SandWing sisters. The next five tell of a school of dragons formed after the SandWing civil war as they prepare for a prophecy about an ancient evil dragon named Darkstalker, who had been frozen in time for two thousand years. The five books after that take place on a different continent - Pantala - where insect-like dragons and plant dragons plan a rebellion against the HiveWing queen. Four novellas, two stand-alone books, and four graphic novels have been released as well; an animated TV series of the books for Netflix - directed by the same director as 2018's ''A Wrinkle in Time'' - was canceled in 2022, along with other woke projects. While the first arc was mainly politically neutral (emphasizing on values like friendship and family, which were primarily portrayed well), the series has taken a more left-leaning turn in its later books. Homosexuality is sprinkled here and there in the second arc (with a female SeaWing named Anemone liking another female for no reason at all) until the thirteenth book: ''The Poison Jungle'', where Sundew the LeafWing falls in love with another female dragon and has her entire character revolved around it. Another instance is when Moonwatcher, the mind-reading NightWing, hears a male MudWing dragon - a brother of first-arc protagonist Clay - swooning over Qibli, the male SandWing, along with the females. Moral relativism is portrayed as right in the series; an example in ''Winter Turning'' is Moonwatcher justifying Icicle's terrorist attack on Jade Mountain Academy by saying that no dragon is really evil and that she was feeling unloved. There is also a feeling of feminism throughout the series, where queens and princesses hold much power in their kingdoms, with the kings being only second in command. An unsubtle jab against Donald Trump is shown in ''Darkness of Dragons'', where characters react negatively to Darkstalker building a wall around his kingdom and launch into a speech supporting foreign dragons and protesting walls. ''The Flames of Hope'' - the last book in the third arc - also needlessly introduces a human identifying as neither sex and a dragon having two mothers.|Fantasy|2012-|} ==Debatable whether Liberal=={| class="wikitable sortable"|-!Title!Author!Summary!Genre!Year Published|-|''[[Bambi]]''|Felix Salten|Even though it's anti-hunting, this novel featuring the life of a young European roe deer still promotes friendship and family values. An animated film by Walt Disney was released in 1942, changing the setting from Austria to Maine, USA, for a more familiar audience (and thus changing Bambi from a roe deer to a white-tailed deer).|Children's Literature|1923|-|''Diary of a Wimpy Kid'' series|Jeff Kinney|Although these books are silly and don't necessarily portray friendship and family values in the most positive light, the main character, Greg Heffley, and his family are Christians. Some of these books also contain brief anti-public-school and anti-environmentalist messages. Even though Greg Heffley can be a jerk sometimes, in some books, he overcomes certain hardships.|Comedy|2007-2017|-|''[[The Great Gatsby]]''|[[F. Scott Fitzgerald]]|It's about living the [[American Dream]], but its stances on [[gambling]] seems to be rather mixed to positive. It also speaks against materialism, but seems to glorify Gatsby, the epitome of [[materialism]] and sexual immorality. He has an affair with Daisy despite her being married. |Historical Fiction|1925|-|''Hocus Pocus and the All-New Sequel''|A.W. Jantha|The first part of this novelization of the classic 1993 [[Halloween]] film ''Hocus Pocus'' contains the same conservative messages that the movie had portrayed: family, friendship, and resisting evil. The sequel has Max and Allison's daughter, Poppy, witnessing the three Sanderson witch sisters rising again after twenty-five years, and she must work with her friends and Thackery Binx's ghost to stop them from wreaking the destruction that her parents and aunt had helped stop. While the sequel contains most of the same conservative messages that the first book and the film portrayed (compared to 2022's ''Hocus Pocus 2''), Poppy is shown to be homosexual by having a crush on a fellow girl after being friends for years.|Young Adult Novel/Fantasy|2018|-|''Hoot''|Carl Hiaasen|While it seems to be rather pro-environmentalism and anti-capitalism, it still shows three teenage kids standing up for what they believe in, doing what they believe is right, and even standing up to a bully.|Realistic Fiction|2002|-|''[[The Lorax]]''|[[Dr. Seuss]]|While it has an environmentalist agenda, it also warns against monopolies.|Children's Literature|1971|-|''[[Lord of the Flies]]''|William Golding|During a fictional World War 3, a plane containing schoolboys crashes, leaving the boys on a deserted island. They band together for survival and build their own society, which begins to crumble the longer they remain on the island. Conservative lessons include responsibility and self-reliance, for the boys make a fire to signal for help and hunt for enough food. On the other hand, the ending conveys a rather negative message: there is ultimately no redemption, only the perpetuation of sin and violence. Christ has the promise of redemption.|Allegory|1954|-|''Warriors''|Erin Hunter|''Warriors'' (or ''Warrior Cats'') is an ongoing book series about five colonies of feral cats called Clans living together and fighting for survival. The series begins with a house cat named Rusty leaving his owners to join one of these Clans, and later books feature many more characters, including the descendants of Rusty, who eventually becomes Firestar, and even cats from before his era. The series has nine six-book arcs, seventeen stand-alone books, four manga arcs, five stand-alone manga novels, five field guides, and twenty-one novellas. Liberal elements begin to appear in the later books. Characters protest the use of borders; for example, in ''Darkest Night'', Mistystar's decision to temporarily close RiverClan's borders and look after her own cats first is portrayed as terrible (however, this is seen as not completely bad by most fans, who said that it could put an end to inbreeding in the Clans). Moral relativism is sometimes seen as good in a way. Examples include the murderous manipulator Mapleshade being sympathetic by making everyone around her even worse, and young ShadowClan cat Needletail being hailed as a hero in spite of helping the rogue Darktail damage ShadowClan; there are, however, instances where a villain's tragic history doesn't excuse their evil actions (like Scourge, Firestar's half-brother, who grows up from a bullied kitten to the vicious founder and leader of BloodClan). The Raging Storm subtly jabs at Donald Trump's 2016 slogan, "Make America Great Again," by casting Tigerheart's line, "Make ShadowClan great again," in a negative light. The series promotes a slight environmentalist message in glorifying the wild cats' harsh life while having the Clan cats look down on house cats (known to them as "kittypets") for preferring to be with loving humans over wild living; one of the rules in their warrior code tells warriors to reject the "soft life" of house cats, encouraging contempt towards them. Witchcraft and feminism seem to be glorified in the later books in the form of the Sisters: a band of molly cats who banish young tomcats from their group and create a ceremony that allows them to call ghosts from beyond the grave; one molly even scoffs that all toms want to do is fight and that everyone is better off without them, and no one debunks this. Finally, later books have started depicting same-sex couples. It starts in "StormClan's Folly," which depicts two toms, Pebblenose and Thrushcall, as a couple. The third volume in the graphic novel of the first arc also has Ravenpaw and Barley (two farm tomcats who are allies to ThunderClan) becoming a same-sex couple. However, the series has started pretty neutral. One example is that while the Clans are staying separate, they can still come together to fight whatever threatens all the Clans, including Scourge and his BloodClan cats and the Dark Forest (the Clan cat version of hell). Family is portrayed mainly positively; for example, Firestar agrees to adopt his sister's firstborn kitten, Cloudtail, so that Cloudtail can be a warrior like him. Totalitarianism is condemned through leaders like Brokenstar, who kills kittens during battle practice and forces his cats to go to war constantly. Even the later series emphasizes family values most of the time, as the main characters—like Shadowsight and Frostdawn—get time to bond with their parents, siblings, and even grandparents.|Xenofiction/Fantasy|2003-
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