Posted on 09/10/2022 4:58:53 PM PDT by karpov
Marian the Librarian, the prim, bespectacled love interest of con artist Harold Hill in the classic musical, “The Music Man,” wouldn’t recognize her profession today.
Libraries, for decades the ultimate safe spaces, have become ground zero in the ongoing culture wars, with battles over banned books, drag queen story hours and free access to porn raging all over the country — from Louisiana to Idaho to Washington State as well as cities like New York and LA.
“The average person has no idea of this but librarians have been targeting children in recent years and trying to turn them into political activists,” said Dan Kleinman, a self-described “library watchdog” from Chatham, NJ, who has run a website called “Safe Libraries” for more than 10 years. He said he has documented the alarming radicalization of the nation’s libraries, including what he says is readily available porn in library computers.
“Librarians see themselves on the front lines on what it takes to bring revolution to the US. You need soldiers in the revolution so they are teaching kids to be little antifa activists who hate their own country and will act as a collective to bring about change.”
Many activists point to the American Library Association (ALA), the oldest and largest library organization in the world, as the driving force behind what they say is too radical an agenda.
The newly-elected head of the ALA — a self-described “Marxist lesbian” named Emily Drabinski — said she rose through the ranks the old-school way, from “looseleaf legal filer to library director.” But her mission is deadly serious.
“So many of us find ourselves at the ends of our worlds,” Drabinski said during her campaign to become ALA president.
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Librarians have been hard left for at least a generation.
Conservative areas need to purge leftists from all levels of education.
And they love tweeting long threads designed designed make themselves look clever.
I don’t care what librarians think I just need them to show me to a particular section of books once in a while. If they want to put crap in their collections that people don’t read well then even more libraries will eventually go under.
Let them browse through the volumes, throw out anything that is not right, and hush anybody that talks above a whisper.
Send the librarians to the house; they have forfeited their opportunity to be on the payroll.
Well, Socialists ruin everything they touch. We know that. We see it every day. Took them a bit longer on the Libraries than their other endeavors...
What are Librarians other than ‘Teachers’ without the Socialist Union Thuggery? Or ARE they Unionized, now?
But, by all means, keep sending your kids to Public Schools and Story Hour at the local Library!
I used to say I didn’t mind my Tax Dollars helping to support Libraries. I’ve changed my tune in the past decade.
Some organization is currently running TV ads asking for $$$ to buy books for kids. However, you have NO CHOICE on WHICH books, though. I called to ask and gave them an earful.
Yeah. I’m kinda mean that way. ;)
>>a self-described “Marxist lesbian” named Emily Drabinski
A name right out of a modern version of a Dickens novel.
I haven’t been to a library in years. Once they became havens for bums, and after keeping quiet became obsolete, I just stopped going. We have thousands of books in our home, and I can order just about any book I want online.
I can get free movies though Kanopy from my library. You will be extremely surprised at the selection. Movies for “everyone.”
Libraries are obsolete. Everything they do is available online.
Recent acquisitions:
Chalet Monet: Inside the home of Dame Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge by Richard BonyngeML/NJYour Jungle Guide to Chess Tactics: Sharpen Your Tactical Skills by Peter Prohaszka
A Southern View of the Invasion of the Southern States and War of 1861-65 by Samuel A'Court Ashe
A Lie Too Big to Fail: The Real History of the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy by LIsa Pease
Improve Your Chess Calculation: The Ramesh Chess Course (Volume 1) by Ramesh RB
Southern Editorials on Secession by Dwight Lowell Dumond (Editor)
Mizz Glidden can go entertain herself.
Cool. I chose the moniker karpov in honor of the former world champion. I’m actually an international chess master.
The entire educational system has rot from top to bottom. Not just a bad apple or two. More than half is rotten.
Home school is the only way to make sure your kid isn’t indoctrinated into their hideous brainwashing.
There was a a recent news report of a town that defunded their library over this nonsense. Good for them!
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