Most Librarians seem to be some of the most woke leftists in the country. How the hell did this happen?
If you did not notice you were not paying attention.
I wish I knew. A lot of people blame their union but I just don’t have any real data.
I worked in a library as a student and as a professional for 40 years. I don’t think of myself as a leftist in any way. I worked in a prison library for 7 years (staff, not resident you wags!) and I earned my FR Name. The rest of the time I worked with the public, ran branches, ran a county system (part of a regional) and did other stuff.
I think the main problem is that the same type of leftist who are leading the churches down the same path. They can’t really do the job they applied for (being a librarian) so they go into administration and don’t think of the consequences.
Unfortunately, these same type of people are also teaching the future librarians. You can tell from the products they are putting out.
Glad I retired when I did.
Most Librarians seem to be some of the most woke leftists in the area where my wife and family still live and our children who are now adults knew that reality.
My wife and I got tired of B$ remarks/snarks from the local librarians re our reading choices.
I have used Kindle since Amazon came out with it and have ordered/bought conservative books for over a decade from Amazon.
My wife has two Kindles, and she reads 5-7 kindle books a week with their Kindle book plan.
Being a librarian is not exactly the most mentally challenging work. Going through college, they take math and science but find out that they can’t do math and science but they still want a college education so they take English and Social Studies. Same curriculum as teachers, journalists and social workers. They don’t have the mental acuity that an engineer or scientist has so logic is not something they would ever use. It’s all about feelings and indoctrination. So it isn’t surprising that librarians turn out to be liberals.
American Library Association bears a large responsibility.