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Marxist American Library Association chief: ‘Libraries need to be sites of socialist organizing’
The College Fix ^ | 5 Sep 2023 | Dave Huber

Posted on 09/06/2023 9:29:07 AM PDT by Rummyfan

proclaimed Marxist lesbian CUNY librarian who was elected president of the American Library Association?

Remember, too, how the editor-in-chief of a Montana newspaper chided Drabinski’s critics, saying they assume her political beliefs will “guide her every action”?

Well, last week an intrepid independent journalist attended “Socialism 2023,” the “largest socialist conference in the country,” and discovered that’s just what Drabinski wishes to do.

She said so herself.

According to Karlyn Borysenko at Actively Unwoke, Drabinski was scheduled to give a talk at the conference (pictured), but due to apparent ongoing controversies over her Marxist leanings it was “quietly canceled.”

Nevertheless, Drabinski did speak briefly at a September 2 session titled “Freedom To Learn: Black and Asian American Solidarity Against Attacks on Antiracist Education.”

(Excerpt) Read more at thecollegefix.com ...


TOPICS: Education; Government; Politics; Science
KEYWORDS: ala; americallibrary; americanlibrary; deathtogroomers; emilydrabinski; evilmarxistlesbian; marxistlesbian; uglydyke
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1 posted on 09/06/2023 9:29:07 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

WHAT!!!!!! No conservative organizing allowed?????


2 posted on 09/06/2023 9:29:53 AM PDT by Hambone 1934 (Dems love playing Nazis.....The republicans love helping them)
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To: Rummyfan

Come for the Book Burnings!
Stay for the Marxist Lectures!


3 posted on 09/06/2023 9:30:18 AM PDT by uranium penguin
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To: Rummyfan

With the internet, online books you can download or purchase, online encyclopedias...who needs to go to a library?


4 posted on 09/06/2023 9:35:42 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: Rummyfan

Association of Jewish Libraries
January 12, 2022 ·
AJL Presents: A Conversation with Emily Drabinski, Candidate for ALA President
Wednesday, January 19, 2022
9:00AM PT / 12:00PM ET
Join AJL’s Emily Bergman in conversation with Emily Drabinski, candidate for ALA president. Ms. Drabinski is Interim Chief Librarian at the Mina Rees Library at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She has worked in libraries for more than twenty years in positions ranging from looseleaf legal filer to library director. This session will give Ms. Drabinski an opportunity to share her vision for ALA and allow AJL members to discuss issues specific to Judaica librarianship.
This event is open to members and nonmembers.
Register at https://us02web.zoom.us/.../tZYvd...


5 posted on 09/06/2023 9:37:12 AM PDT by euram (allALL)
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To: Signalman

“Well, let me tell you something, funny boy. Y'know that little stamp, the one that says ‘New York Public Library’? Well that may not mean anything to you, but that means a lot to me. One whole hell of a lot. Sure, go ahead, laugh if you want to. I've seen your type before: Flashy, making the scene, flouting convention. Yeah, I know what you're thinking. What's this guy making such a big stink about old library books? Well, let me give you a hint, junior. Maybe we can live without libraries, people like you and me. Maybe. Sure, we're too old to change the world, but what about that kid, sitting down, opening a book, right now, in a branch at the local library and finding drawings of pee-pees and wee-wees on the Cat in the Hat and the Five Chinese Brothers? Doesn't HE deserve better? Look. If you think this is about overdue fines and missing books, you'd better think again. This is about that kid's right to read a book without getting his mind warped! Or maybe that turns you on, Seinfeld; maybe that's how you get your kicks. You and your good-time buddies. Well I got a flash for ya, joy-boy: Party time is over.”

6 posted on 09/06/2023 9:38:06 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Signalman

One MAJOR reason is editing.

An online book, can be chopped up, added/ deleted/redacted on the fly.

a printed bound book is unchangable.

yes you could pull it and put in a “new edition” but much more difficult to do on a lrage scale.


7 posted on 09/06/2023 9:38:23 AM PDT by uranium penguin
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To: Rummyfan
I don't understand. History is strewn with the wreckage of Social experiments extending back several hundred years, from the Fabian Socialists, New Harmony, Walden, to modern-day Venezuela, and not one has ever persisted. People like Drabinski have sufficient hubris to think they are smarter than anyone in the past 300 years and they will "do it right". When are you economic illiterates going to learn there is no "right" way to do Socialism? It's doomed to failure by its basic premise that people are not motivated by self-interest and the desire to "get ahead". Instead, everyone is forced to sink to the lowest common denominator in the society. The American Dream is not to be the same as everyone else around you.
8 posted on 09/06/2023 9:43:24 AM PDT by econjack
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To: Rummyfan

I remember the fact that ALA praised Castro as he murdered and/or imprisoned thousands of librarians


9 posted on 09/06/2023 9:46:36 AM PDT by dangus
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To: uranium penguin

I doubt if more than a fraction of a percent of online books (I’ve been reading books on my Kindle e-reader for years) are amended or changed from the hardcover version, at least for nefarious reasons.

The authors wouldn’t put up with it.


10 posted on 09/06/2023 9:47:14 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: Signalman

“I doubt if more than a fraction of a percent of online books (I’ve been reading books on my Kindle e-reader for years) are amended or changed from the hardcover version, at least for nefarious reasons.

The authors wouldn’t put up with it.”

....Mark TWain was unavailable for comment.


11 posted on 09/06/2023 9:49:21 AM PDT by uranium penguin
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To: econjack

I had this conversation with a communist classmate and I said communism was tried on multiple ways for 90 years and in all its iterations it had failed or is being propped up as it can’t stand alone. He said the right people were not in charge. This is the mind set of communist thinker. Social justice sometimes a desire for power, and coupled with narcissism.


12 posted on 09/06/2023 9:52:06 AM PDT by Liaison (CTANSTAAFL)
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To: uranium penguin
“ One MAJOR reason is editing.”

Exactly. One day we’ll wake up to find out that the Bible and many other books have been removed from your ereader and they won’t be coming back. KEEP PRINTED VERSION of the books you cherish.
13 posted on 09/06/2023 9:53:13 AM PDT by The Louiswu (PEDO JOE MUST GO!!!)
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To: Liaison

So what are the odds that the “right people” will be in charge? And how do you make sure the “right people” are in charge?


14 posted on 09/06/2023 9:53:44 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Rummyfan

This “woman” needs a free helicopter ride!
🚁

🤸🏻


15 posted on 09/06/2023 9:55:27 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: The Louiswu

Good idea.


16 posted on 09/06/2023 9:55:47 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Rummyfan

If socialists understood economics, they wouldn’t be socialists.

Every one of these effete socialists imagine themselves as the commissar of poetry and dance. They never see themselves mucking out a stable.


17 posted on 09/06/2023 9:57:07 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: dfwgator

That is the dilemma as the folks I have ever posed this question to never have a direct answer. I get platitudes and hopes from them.


18 posted on 09/06/2023 10:04:34 AM PDT by Liaison (CTANSTAAFL)
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To: The Louiswu

NYT (and others) have been constantly editing/ “correcting” articles for years. Stealth editing.

They can not do that with a hard copy.

Many/ Most libraries keep/ stock newpapers and periodicles.
esp NYT/WAPO/ LA Times etc.

it’s not JUST books.


19 posted on 09/06/2023 10:09:29 AM PDT by uranium penguin
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To: Liaison

Plus the fact that once the “wrong people” are in charge, you can’t simply vote them out.


20 posted on 09/06/2023 10:11:49 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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