Posted on 08/07/2023 6:59:32 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
LOS ANGELES — Emily Drabinski took over as president of the American Library Association in July with plans to tackle the pressing issues facing her profession, such as shoring up funding and fighting a record number of book ban attempts nationwide.
She said she wants to make sure that the LBGTQ community and Black people see themselves reflected in the books on their library shelves. And she’s planning to prepare libraries for the consequences of climate change, pointing to the severe flooding this summer.
But some Republicans have focused on a single tweet Drabinski sent over a year ago to incite an effort to defund and abandon the ALA, the oldest and largest nonprofit trade organization for libraries. Conservative Republican lawmakers in Arizona, Idaho, Illinois, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina and Wyoming have pushed their states’ libraries to withdraw from the ALA, citing a since-deleted tweet Drabinski wrote after her election in April 2022.
“I just cannot believe that a Marxist lesbian who believes that collective power is possible to build and can be wielded for a better world is the president-elect of @ALALibrary,” Drabinski wrote. “I am so excited for what we will do together. Solidarity! And my mom is SO PROUD. I love you mom.”
Montana became the first state last month to cut ties, eschewing “association with an organization led by a Marxist.”
Right-wing activists have asserted that librarians following the ALA’s lead have been captured by a “woke” ideology, have labeled the organization “radical” and accused it of pushing a sexual agenda on children. Marxism is a political theory developed by German philosopher Karl Marx in the 19th century that critiques capitalism and analyzes class relations, and influenced many communist regimes. And though it has attracted backlash, Drabinski said she’s not going to hide her political opinions.
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What NBC felt necessary was to trot out a historical definition to hide what contemporary Marxists are really about: radical transformation of society and values by taking over institutions and groups (like, taking over a national Library association and using it to push gender BS).
NBC wants the woman’s profession of Marxist belief to come across as a harmless academic interest. “Oh, she’s into a 19th political theory that “critiques” capitalism and “analyzes” class relations — how boring and obscure”. They don’t want you to notice she is advocating a virulent totalitarian ideology.
Marxism is a political theory developed by German philosopher Karl Marx in the 19th century that critiques capitalism and analyzes class relations, and influenced many communist regimes.
Influenced many? MANY??? Which ones WEREN’T ???
Marxist lesbian? Two strikes! It is no coincidence that the far left - Marxism, communism - attracts these damaged people.
So she is going to have mirrors installed?!
Defund the public library.
We have to burn the village to save it.
She said she wants to make sure that the LBGTQ community and Black people see themselves reflected in the books on their library shelves.
Libraries are limited in shelf-space. By the left's definition, she will have to ban books already on the shelves to make from for the new ones.
This has been the subject of reports for some time:
Breitbart News Network
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/04/22/ - Dewey Decimal Disaster: Apr 22, 2022. The American Library Association has elected City University of New York Graduate Center librarian and self-proclaimed “Marxist lesbian” Emily Drabinski as its president for the 2022-23 term.
GAWD Typical ugly butch .......
/bingo
Catcher in the Rye
Huckleberry Finn
Glad I could help.
Well, she certainly has people upset.
Both of those groups are already noted daily in the nightly news, maybe for different reasons.
"She said she wants to make sure that the LBGTQ community and Black people see themselves reflected in the books on their library shelves."
Why? Perhaps it will be the catalyst that moves them to repent? I think it is highly unlikely. One thing it will do is promote their lifestyle as a normal (ie good) choice for others to emulate...young and impressionable children. The proof is in an wverincreasing amount of weak minded people who are incapable of separating fact from fiction. Why else are trans people more common than lefthanded people?
It's porn.
ALA is a wicked organization hell bent on corruption.
Libraries are now social Commie indoctrination Centers going after school age children with their propaganda.
Yes.
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