Posted on 04/17/2019 1:35:19 PM PDT by BadLands59
My first reaction to this tweet was: Surely, the article it links to can’t be this bad? It’s a parody right?
"Library collections continue to promote and proliferate whiteness with their very existence and the fact that they are physically taking up space in our libraries." (Link to read the tweet) Alas, no. If anything, the tweet actually understates the degree of nihilist unthought that passes for wokeness among some academic librarians. The Library Journal tweet links to a blog post by Sofia Leung, whose Twitter profile describes her as an “academic librarian. I like cats, whiskey, intersectional feminism, social justice, critical librarianship, & CRT [Critical Race theory].”
The good news here is that Leung cannot be described as a thought leader in the librarian tribe. In her article, she describes her epiphany about the “whiteness” of libraries in a discussion with a colleague:
"One of the mind-blowing things she shared was this idea of how our library collections, because they are written mostly by straight white men, are a physical manifestation of white men ideas taking up all the space in our library stacks. Pause here and think about this."
Yes, let’s pause here. Leung regards the idea that books are written by straight white men (many of them dead) as “mind blowing,” when, in fact, that has been a hoary, tattered, clichéd fixture of academic leftism for nearly half a century. Her innovation here is moving from the identities of the dead white guys—Shakespeare, Milton, Dante, Plutarch, Freud—to the offensive nature of the physical space that their books occupy.
(Excerpt) Read more at thebulwark.com ...
Then, why...when I visit our local library...are there so many blacks in there you can’t find a seat?
Maybe we should re-publish all books on black paper, with white ink?
Anything to bitch about that might bring them a buck or two.
To fight “The Oppressive Whiteness of Books” I’ll read a book by Thomas Sowell or Walter Williams.
LOL. Now there’s an idea.
Burn all the books written by straight white men (and presumably straight white women), there won’t be many books left on the shelves.
Shakespeare is being torn down as any kind of notable writer and replaced with ‘modern greats’.
Even in trivial areas I see young people saying that the Beatles no longer belong in the canon of rock and roll.
WHy stop at books, just burn white people until
they become an oppressed minority then hold protests
to save them!
Well, since these brainiacs have decided that math is racist, it wouldn’t surprise me to hear them say that the ability to read is racist.
Then, why...when I visit our local library...are there so many blacks in there you can’t find a seat?
“Shakespeare, Milton, Dante, Plutarch, Freud—
Oh those are such benign works. What about Marx, Engels, Lenin... may as well clean it all out!
“Maybe we should re-publish all books on black paper, with white ink?”
Ah, so you want to take white from just being a background and make it the foreground now? /s
It is perfectly normal for a Caucasian culture to have a majority of books in their libraries that are written about Caucasian culture and history.
Just as it’s perfectly normal for (insert culture here) cultures to have books in their libraries that are written about their own cultures.
It’s the height of audacity to live in a Caucasian culture and complain about that culture. Would one go to Messico and complain they have too many books in Latin for their 0.5% black folk? Or go to Japan and complain that the street signs are in Japanese and not Farsi?
America is not an international hotel.
Yup. Their real goal is to eradicate Western (Judeo-Christian) society and all traces of same. Wonder how they’re gonna live without air conditioning, microwave ovens and cellphones?
We should be reading from the multitude of works of muslim literature
I'd expect the books in a Mexican library to be mostly written in Spanish …
I wonder what the books in a Ugandan or Zembabwean library look like.
Having a written language is an expression of whiteness. So are discovering and using the wheel, metallurgy, domesticating animals, the rule of law, and a host of other things known collectively as “civilization.”
What a wackjob. Do everyone a favor and GTFO.
Enough
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