Mom Complains AP Book Gave Her Son Nightmares, Twitter Reacts

By Susie Madrak — October 26, 2021

So naturally Twitter was skeptical when a new Glenn Youngkin ad appeared about this nice Republican lawyer mom whose high school senior son was so, so traumatized by a Toni Morrison book that it gave him nightmares and he couldn't even finish the book. That mean old Terry McAuliffe refused to sign a bill that would give parents notice about sexual material in their kids' assignments.

What's it like to have Terry McAuliffe block you from having a say in your child's education?

This mom knows – she lived through it. Watch her powerful story. #VAgov pic.twitter.com/u8EjmMQX0n

— Glenn Youngkin (@GlennYoungkin) October 25, 2021

Well! Turns out she's a book-banning Christian activist, and this trauma happened almost ten years ago. Sounds like she's never gotten over it!

Right. So concerned parent, Laura Murphy, who also happens to be a conservative activist and was the "2016 Virginia Family Foundation Citizen of the Year"

Clearly she has no ulterior motives... 🙄

— mtnycz (@mtnycz) October 25, 2021

Twitter took it from there.

If this mom doesn't want her kids getting exposed to college-level readings like Toni Morrison's Beloved, then she shouldn't enroll them in AP courses which have college-level readings.

Maybe seal them in some kind of special bubble where Pulitzer Prize winners won't hurt them?

— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) October 25, 2021

He could’ve opted out of that book but chose not to.

He’s now a lawyer at the @NRCC. pic.twitter.com/5RgMpASBZU

— 🗽BlondeinBrooklyn🗽 (@hahnalytics) October 25, 2021

Wait … is this Concerned Mother’s son now a 27-year-old lawyer for the National Republican Congressional Committee?

Has he overcome his fear of Toni Morrison? pic.twitter.com/jKNkRIx9CJ

— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) October 25, 2021

“When my son showed me his reading assignment, my heart sunk. It was some of the most explicit material you can imagine.”

When will dirty-minded teachers stop asking our precious children to read the pornographic Bible? 🙏 pic.twitter.com/fb0J0ix9Em

— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) October 25, 2021

Oh come on.

The book was ‘Beloved,’ whose author WON THE NOBEL PRIZE for literature almost 30 years ago.

This is too scary?

— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) October 25, 2021

If you’re a senior in high school complaining to your mom about a reading assignment, dude

— Delbert Grady Seasons of the Witch (@JoeSchlabotnic) October 26, 2021

Her poor traumatized son went on to law school, got married last year, and is now a lawyer for the National Republican Campaign Committee! He turned out to be a classic Republican operative! (Oh good, I was SO worried!)

Keep your eye on this fragile snowflake. I predict he will be the next Brett Kavanaugh!