..... Image .... Over .... Substance ..... It's the Bane ... and Downfall ... of our Civilization ........
Of only he had started Drag Queen Story Hour, his everlasting honor would have been assured. /s
Other than the devil, his minions, and certain truly evil people, no one is all bad. Sounds like Dewey might have been a bigoted jerk, but that doesn’t take away from the marvelous system of book categorization he developed. If we knock down every statue, building, etc, named in honor of people who were flawed, we’ll be surrounded by rubble. And none of that destruction will change the mistakes that those flawed human beings made. Did his good outweigh his bad? I don’t know. But where does this sort of history punishment end, and for what good reason? Helen Keller was convinced of a weird form of Christianity, in which the 2nd coming had already occurred; the outstanding author, Pearl Buck, thought Mao Tse Tung was going to be good for China. So let’s burn their books, and take away Keller’s Medal of Freedom. And on and on, til there’s nothing left. That will make those destroyers of history righteous! Until, of course, future “righteous” crusaders want to knock down ALL THEIR work.
A children’s library division of this leftist association earlier this year stripped Laura Engels Wilder award of her name as she was too racist.
These people are SCUM.
This is really getting ridiculous. How far back are the FASCISTS going to go? Who will they go after next?