The hosts criticized the novel as a forcedread, poorly written work of fiction that they argued serves as racial propaganda rather than a useful policy reference.
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Rand Paul cites the book To Kill a Mockingbird in an effort to explain why we shouldn't blow up drug cartels. There are a bunch of reasons why that argument isn't compelling, starting with the fact that the book, despite being force fed to every American child for decades, isn't very good.
But in this case, instead of citing anything with any substance whatsoever, Rand Paul cites To Kill a Mockingbird. And he wonders whether J.D. Vance, the vice president of the United States, has ever read the book. That's the kill shot in Rand Paul's foreign policy argument.
And even children, when they're ordered to read this book, which nobody ever would have read it, if not for the fact that everyone is forced to read it. But even they generally understand that it was written by some random woman who invented a story in her head. It's not a documentary. It's not a textbook on constitutional law.
Every school and government relentlessly pushed the book on young people as soon as it was published in 1960. It won a Pulitzer within a year of its release. A group of librarians in Britain declared that To Kill a Mockingbird was just as important as the Bible. That doesn't mean the book is any good.
It is a scam. The story is fictional but based on lies. The book is propaganda, forced onto kids to teach that America is a racist country with a racist past. It's a poorly written book whose history has been sanitized to continue promoting that narrative.
To Kill a Mockingbird is not based in reality. It's not an accurate reflection of life in Alabama during the Great Depression. It is instead a very heavily promoted piece of racial propaganda, one that's intended, as with every other piece of racial propaganda promoted by our establishment, to demonize white people and portray black criminals as sympathetic victims of circumstance.
