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The Wokesters Wanna Weed Our Libraries
The Orthosphere ^ | NOVEMBER 16, 2021 | JMSMITH

Posted on 11/18/2021 8:31:43 PM PST by Noumenon

“The whole apparatus for spreading knowledge, the schools and the press, wireless and cinema, will be used exclusively to spread those views which, whether true or false, will strengthen the belief in the rightness of the decisions taken by the authority; and all information that might cause doubt or hesitation will be withheld.”

Friedrich Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (1944)

I just received a remarkable invitation to an upcoming lecture series entitled, “Weeding out Neutrality,” the advertised speakers being “activist librarians” who aim to destroy “old myths about libraries and neutrality” so they can curate collections that are openly and purposefully one-sided.

As the organizers of the lecture series put it, “a growing corps of activist librarians . . . . hope to transform our understanding of libraries and the role they play in destroying unjust and unfair systems.” If you think that a library is a place you go to study all sides of a question and form your own opinion, these activist librarians have some news for you!

In the libraries of tomorrow, your opinions will be formed by the hidden hand of activist librarians who weed out all books that contradict the party line. The totalitarian tool that Hayek warned against is now being debated, and will very soon be used, in what many believe is the most conservative public university in the United States.

To use the language of CRT, librarians must “weed out neutrality” because any library that is not actively anti-racist is a racist library. Any library that suffers its shelves to be soiled by books that argue all sides of the question is a racist library because neutrality, objectivity, and impartiality are just slogans of hate that rationalize “unjust and unfair systems.”

By extension, we must suppose that any library that is not actively anti-white is a white library, any library that is not actively anti-capitalist is a capitalist library, any library that is not actively anti-Christian is a Christian library, etc., etc., etc.

Here Hayek reduces the theory of this new library science to a single line. Indeed, Hayek’s line will serve as the motto of the general and universal Scientific Revolution of the Twenty-First Century.

“The probable effect on the people’s loyalty to the system becomes the only criterion for deciding whether a particular piece of information is to be published or suppressed.”*

* Friedrich Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1944), chap. 11.


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Education; History; Politics
KEYWORDS: censorship; curate; curatelol; friedrichhayek; hayek; librarians; libraries; publiclibraries; theroadtoserfdom; woke
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I see mini-Nurembergs everywhere.
1 posted on 11/18/2021 8:31:43 PM PST by Noumenon
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To: Noumenon

Local librarians. Some juicy low-hanging fruit right there.


2 posted on 11/18/2021 8:33:22 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

There are no innocent bystanders.


3 posted on 11/18/2021 8:33:59 PM PST by Noumenon (Black flag American. KTF)
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To: Noumenon

The Woke are the weeds.

Need to pull them up and throw them out.


4 posted on 11/18/2021 8:37:07 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Rurudyne

“The Woke are the weeds.
Need to pull them up and throw them out.”

In Oregon they’re like Douglas Firs.

You would need a chainsaw or a forest fire.


5 posted on 11/18/2021 8:40:07 PM PST by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel)
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To: Noumenon

I am a retired academic librarian.
Libraries are a dying institution.
I am glad I am gone.


6 posted on 11/18/2021 8:41:34 PM PST by Fai Mao (I don't think we have enough telephone poles., )
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To: Noumenon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Obsolete_Man

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/2289136/posts


7 posted on 11/18/2021 8:43:58 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Fai Mao

I own more books than my small town library.

Someone needs to still have books after the woke censors do their damage.


8 posted on 11/18/2021 8:44:34 PM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Fai Mao

Respect for your service in the pursuit of knowledge. You have seen the transformation from the inside.


9 posted on 11/18/2021 8:50:30 PM PST by Noumenon (Black flag American. KTF)
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To: Noumenon

Just say no! And mean it. Don’t accept the craziness of sick zealots. Don’t give stature to the undeserving. And don’t EVER let anyone take your freedom to choose who you are.


10 posted on 11/18/2021 8:52:33 PM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: Fai Mao

I worked at our public library as a page, for three years during high school. It was a great job.


11 posted on 11/18/2021 9:00:27 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Noumenon

12 posted on 11/18/2021 9:11:18 PM PST by Apparatchik (If you find yourself in a confusing situation, simply laugh knowingly and walk away - Jim Ignatowski)
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To: cgbg

“I own more books than my small town library.
Someone needs to still have books after the woke censors do their damage.”

Me too.

Books, Firearms, & Federal Reserve Notes are some of things I enjoy collecting.

The woke just destroyed the Democrat Party, the rank & file democrats just don’t see it yet. Our side doesn’t see it yet, because our hucksters are selling doom, gloom, & fear.(When don’t they?)


13 posted on 11/18/2021 9:41:09 PM PST by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel)
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To: Apparatchik

There can be only one answer to goose-stepping morons.


14 posted on 11/18/2021 9:57:01 PM PST by Noumenon (Black flag American. KTF)
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To: Noumenon

What is “the most conservative public university in the United States” ?


15 posted on 11/18/2021 10:21:26 PM PST by A strike (Public Health 21st century murder by government. Doktor FauxiMengeleGates to aTerreHaute gurney now)
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To: A strike

Author didn’t say.


16 posted on 11/18/2021 10:27:21 PM PST by Noumenon (Black flag American. KTF)
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The last time I was in a library; my local small town library, I had a few new copies of Lt.Col. “Buzz” Patterson’s “Dereliction of Duty” book about his time as Bill Clinton’s ‘ carrier of the football’ to donate.

The head Librarian’s eyes lit up when she saw Billy’s shining countenance grinning up at her from the covers.

A moment later, when she found out what the book was really about, she took a yardstick and from three feet away, like they were rattlesnakes, shoved the books back at me, and screamed “I DO NOT ALLOW BOOKS LIKE THIS IN MY LIBRARY. TAKE THEM AWAY.”

Over the previous several years I had donated many books to the library, including some rare and valuable books on local / regional history, for their non-circulating Special Collection. At that moment I wished that I had never given them anything. And this was in a very conservative leaning town.


17 posted on 11/18/2021 10:38:34 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: Secret Agent Man
I worked at our public library as a page, for three years during high school. It was a great job.

There's a pun hiding in there, somewhere...

Regards,

18 posted on 11/18/2021 11:16:01 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Noumenon

This is why I peruse the book sections of thrift stores.


19 posted on 11/18/2021 11:37:53 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith)
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To: Noumenon

nope!

my thoughts, opinions, appraisals, and judgments are not privy to any communist bazzard.

they are forged from 69 years of life, including joyfully supplying communists with their apportioned dirt naps.


20 posted on 11/19/2021 12:29:32 AM PST by Terry L Smith
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