Not gonna lie, if I heard about a group of militant librarians in my area, I'd probably be looking join them before even finding out why they became militant. I tend to trust librarians significantly more than any politician.
There's never any data for claims like this either.
They take a few vocal, high profile lefty librarians existing as proof of their view that our once "neutral" profession has become a hotbed of Marxism or some such.
Responses I'm seeing to the article include the usual attacks on "a certain type of woman, you know what i mean," claims that libraries are unnecessary (AI can do it now, just like the internet claims before it), and grifters like Dan K going "see see see i told you now give me money cause mean."
And the article goes after individual librarians with unnecessary, inaccurate personal attacks. The usual M4L playbook over-accessorized with gaudy SAT words.
It’s truly sad that any tiny bit of social service or community care is just seen as “Marxist/socialist” now. It’s just another made up excuse for hatred/racism/classism masquerading as American patriotism.
Yeah, the nice old lady at my local library who showed me how to use the new coin machine computer to make copies recently was totally, uh, militant, lol. 😆
Hahaha... That's so damn stupid... Talk about oxy (you) moron, militant librarians... What is their weapon of choice.. "Shushing" people??! .🙄 OY, of all the.. 😏
I'm proud to be a librarian and if our Toddler Move & Groove, Conversational English Language Cafe, Senior Planet Technology classes, STEM, Chess, Craft and ĹEGO Clubs, PreK Storytimes and Summer Reading programs are putting toxicity into the Universe then I guess I'm proud of that too.
This makes me laugh cry as I remember the time I had to argue with my manager that, no, we don't need to keep the racist dr seuss books so parents can use them to teach their kids about racism. There's a huge swath of library workers who are deeply conservative.
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we did end up getting rid of it so maybe Mark's right and we *are* dangerous vectors of censorship 🤪
The short version is it's a tirade of misunderstandings, stereotypes, and falsehoods, and asks Trump to "stick it to libraries."
They take a few vocal, high profile lefty librarians existing as proof of their view that our once "neutral" profession has become a hotbed of Marxism or some such.
This is one of those times.
JFC MAGA...