A useful thing about getting older is learning which groups in America are conservative and which ones are leftist. For example, lawyers, teachers, school boards tend to be leftist. Certainly teacher unions are leftist, judging from their political donations to Democrats. Librarians also tend to be leftist. They tend to champion secular left values to kids, against the wishes of parents.
Here’s an article from The Federalist that discusses a new report about the goals of the American Library Association’s president, Emily Drabinski:
The American Accountability Foundation, a conservative nonprofit, published a video and memo this month compiling radical quotes from Emily Drabinski, the president of the powerful American Library Association (ALA), a nonprofit that receives some of its money from member libraries, many of which are taxpayer-funded. The ALA, the oldest and biggest library association boasting nearly 50,000 members, coordinates programs at local libraries across America.
The report documents Drabinski, a self-described lesbian Marxist, attacking conservatives and parents as “far right, white supremacist, fascist,” an “angry white mob,” and the “Christo-fascist right.”
Being a Marxist, Drabinski said, is “very much who I am and shapes a lot of how I think about social change.” She has criticized the idea of “gender as a binary system with only two acceptable gender markers” and championed LGBT books in children’s sections. Drabinski, who supports drag queen story hours, also whined in a 2013 academic paper that religious books under the Dewey Decimal System are “overwhelmingly Christian” and present heterosexuality as “normative.”
[…]Libraries are “good places that do all kinds of things that people on the right don’t like,” Drabinski said on the “Citations Needed” podcast in March, according to the report.
Anyone who wants to disagree with Drabinski about using libraries to do things that people on the right don’t like is typically called a “book banner” – someone who likes to ban books. That’s what people on the secular left like to when parents express their desire for their children to learn computer science, instead of women’s studies, gay studies, Marxist studies, etc. I prefer that libraries stock “Code Complete, Second Edition” by Steve McConnell, instead of “Why your feelings determine your gender”. And that makes me a book banner, according to the secular left.
It’s too bad that Drabinski never studied anything useful, like computer science. Computer science is harder than “library science”, but it would probably have thought her how to think critically, how to solve problems in the real world, and how to think through her beliefs rationally. As it stands, we just need to understand that secular leftists like her are opposed to parents, and they should be kept away from children. They are dangerous to children.
Personally, I would just just privatize all the libraries, and force them to appeal to customers if they want to get paid. As long as they are getting taxpayer money, they can do as they please. No more student loans for non-STEM degrees. No more public sector unions. No more taxpayer-funding of the secular left. Instead, we need to privatize everything, give parents more control of their children’s education, and people who want to work in schools should have to complete 5 years in the private sector, first.
WINTERY KNIGHT 
She’s a God-mocking Leftist, and also an idiot. If gender isn’t binary, then she’s completely dismissing the notion of the LGB perversions. Seems pretty radical. Consistency isn’t their strong suit.
My wife is a retired school librarian. She refused to join the ALA, and would have quit if she had been required to supply those perverted books to kids.
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Oh boy. I have to try to generalize less, but I really don’t like the ALA.
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Wonder how she’ll handle Hell when she gets there?
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” a self-described lesbian Marxist, ”
A Marxist.
Which makes *her* the fascist. Fascism is a hard left ideology, just like socialism and communism, all inspired by Marx.
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Your idea of privatizing libraries is excellent. Still would face an incredible pushback, probably on par with Scott Walker’s anti-union dues bill, or the Florida anti-groomer bill, but less than just firing them would do.
I think libraries are tied to local property taxes, so I don’t know if anything can be done at the state level. They get lots of free food to hand out and funding from the federal level, via grants and programs. Now I am getting bitter because this makes me realize the libraries aren’t reforming. We are in the beginning stages of a mass persecution. Some folks say civil war but I think (know) they underestimate our cowardice and complacency. Either way, the lezbo Marxist will get her rule unimpeded until judgement day.
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Move to a county with low property taxes.
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Where I live in Canada libraries are always right for money so it would be dumb to get into ideas like this too strong.
If they didn’t have computer access, photocopiers, some programs for kids and adults to take they would likely not exist anymore.
I still like a good hardcover book but even I will get an ebook more often for something I only read once if it is cheaper.
But libraries rarely stocked books I cared about so I never went that much after I finished school.
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This woman is a blight on the culture and should be roundly and publicly mocked as the fool she is. We need mockery in our response to such people. When fools are taken seriously…or given respect only wise people deserve…other fools buy into their foolishness. When fools like this woman spew their foolishness, point at them and laugh like they were just hit in the face with a cream pie. Even if they’re not embarrassed, other fools with not wish to feel embarrassed by buying in and thought a fool. That buys time to impart unto them wisdom.
That’s my plan. It’s free for public use.
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Did you see that my co-host and I interviewed Seth Dillon about using mockery and evidential apologetics as Christians? It was a Twitter space but we are going to try to make a podcast episode out of it.
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Looking forward to it!
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I think that your idea of privatizing libraries is an excellent way to handle this situation. Allow these folks to fill their private libraries with whatever they want and let’s see how often they get used. Encouraging people of all ages to read is important, as long as they aren’t reading garbage.
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