Representative Reggie Stoltzfus (R) and Representative Don Jones (R)

Republicans? SJW Classic version, I haven't seen that in awhile.

“I let the university know that the material is unacceptable and apparently they think it is acceptable so if it’s acceptable, all my friends in the general assembly are going to receive a copy of this book courtesy of me, and we’re gonna look through this book, and we’re gonna decide if this university is worthy of giving 150 million dollars of taxpayer dollars to it every year,” Representative Stoltzfus vowed.

Funny how these conservative wokescolds threaten to withhold an university's funding over a book with naughty pictures in it, but I would not be shocked if they never once threatened any university's funding over the Marxist & cultural Marxist indoctrination that pretty much all public universities engage in.

They say underage students shouldn't be assigned adult reading material. This is an interesting thing from multiple angles.

• I genuinely believe students who are underage shouldn't be admitted to an adult learning institution if they think that. You want to learn like grown people do? Well. Accept that they will talk about adult topics in adult ways.
• What is adult material? You are not allowed to mention anything that involves sex or violence to underage people? There goes history, all forms of art art, a lot of science like biology, you can't even talk about sports because some of them have roots in history and cultural things that did contain sex and violence.
• How young can you be when you go to college? a 17-year-old will be an adult in a matter of months. If said kid is such a pussy he can't take fucking art history because muh fee fees, then I hope he will be under guardianship forever, because he is mentally stunted.

And here we see puritanical right-wing legislators demanding something be censored because, "GASP, That's a penis!". (and yes, I know that Legend of the Overfiend is a hell of a lot more graphic than that, I was being hyperbolic). Show all the violence you want, but heaven forbid there be a chapter in there that points out that sex anime (whether vanilla or violent) exists.

The two also argued that “this isn’t about ‘educational freedom’ or censorship,”

Nope, that's exactly what it's about. It'd be one thing if the course centered solely on rape-tacular manga and anime that were blatantly offensive to the average person, but this course covers the gamut and touches on the fact that there is a lot of porn anime out there. They're censoring the whole thing based on one chapter that a handful of people can't handle and don't want other people looking at because they think that everyone should be offended and the thing shouldn't exist.

and that they were not “suggesting that minors – or, for that matter, any students – enrolled at Kent State be coddled in safe spaces or shielded from the truths, triumphs and tragedies of history,”

Bullshit. That's exactly what they're suggesting. They don't want anyone being exposed to the way things are in the real world that don't fit their narrow view of what is right and what is wrong. They don't want the students to look at something and draw their own conclusions. They, like the Left, want to rewrite reality to fit their version of what it should be and control the students' thoughts and actions accordingly.

Jesus what is this 1997? Anime has been mainstream and widely available in the West for 3 decades, you'd think they would have at least heard of it by now to not have this "I DONT KNOW WHAT THIS IS SO IT MUST BE <fill in buzzword>."

sorry for deleting and reposting i thought a more direct link would be better instead of the indirect one from before