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 ...
All the pages are white. That just proves they’re racist...
Now I've got that darn Three Dog Night song in my head.
Public libraries in urban locales are just playgrounds for bums.
If she’s mad about white people’s books “physically taking up space” in “our” (black people’s?) libraries, she should check out airports, road signs & libraries in Africa.
Everything written anywhere is written in European & Asiatic languages. That’s because sub-Saharan Africans had developed no alphabets or written languages of their own.
American slaves, when they arrived here, simply did not write until white people gave them an alphabet & taught them how.
You would be correct.
Zimbabwe= Rhodesia= Cecil Rhodes = that white guy who brought writing & modernity, & whose statue must be torn down.
Uganda= I dont know specifics, but essentially same idea.
She’s got that Rosie O’Donnell “smile.”
Unfortunately in all to much of America today that is true.
Don’t want to get caught “ACTING WHITE” you know.
Just seems strange to me, most of the best knowledge is in books, and last time I checked KNOWLEDGE IS POWER.
Big dogs, as in ENGLISH MASTIFF.
this is not funny... they said at the beginning of WWII everyone watched and didn’t believe it (cognitive dissonance)... then libraries... then some events... then round up the whities... get ready !!!!
Leung’s a Marxist, pure and simple. Treat her as the enemy because she is.
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