Jack Posobiec is an alt-right influencer who is present on Twitter with over 2 million followers, Is set to read to children as part of the Right’s effort to counter the Drag Queens Story Hour.
He wrote: “BREAKING: Heavy police presence outside the library this morning. Pray for us.” In response to the library’s prominent display of queer reading material and rainbow banners, he quipped, “Not one American flag.” “They wanted to make sure our children saw,” he added.
To an audience of maybe a dozen children Posobiec was introducing “The Island of Free Ice Cream,” a picture book he purportedly wrote about predators who lure unsuspecting animals to their doom.
“Wolf Island was a dark and spooky place, full of shadows,” Posobiec explained. He glanced up, past the adults, toward a camera that had been set up by Real America’s Voice, a streaming and television venue that rose to prominence by hosting Steve Bannon. “And full of communists,” he added.
According to Salon:
Posobiec was the first reader in the Freedom Island Story Hour, organized by the Texas publisher Brave Books to promote its series of children’s stories commissioned, according to the company’s website, “to honor God… and instill a love of truth.” It was part of a nationwide tour for the latest Brave Books release, “As You Grow,” by child actor turned evangelist Kirk Cameron, meant as a conservative counter to the popular Drag Queen Story Hour, which emphasizes “the gender fluidity of childhood… and queer role models.” In addition to Cameron and Posobiec, Chaya Raichik, creator and proprietor of the social media account Libs of Tik Tok, as well as Sean Spicer, Donald Trump’s former White House press secretary, were scheduled to read.
From the Guardian in March:
Posobiec, 38, gained prominence as a pro-Trump activist during the 2016 election. He promoted bogus conspiracy theories such as “Pizzagate”, which held that Democrats were running a child sex and torture ring beneath a pizzeria in Washington. He is a senior editor at the far-right news and commentary website Human Events. Yet it is Posobiec and others like him who are already helping to set the narrative for the Republican presidential primary. Posobiec’s recent online activity includes crude attacks on Antifa, the New York Times’s 1619 Project and transgender rights (“Genital Gestapo”) – ready-made talking points for candidates.
Posobiec and others like him who are already helping to set the narrative for the Republican presidential primary. Posobiec’s recent online activity includes crude attacks on Antifa, the New York Times’s 1619 Project and transgender rights (“Genital Gestapo”) – ready-made talking points for candidates.
