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‘It’s now come to our doorstep’: Librarians find themselves at the center of increasingly bitter culture wars
MSN ^ | 3/3/23 | Brian McQuarrie

Posted on 03/03/2023 10:05:24 AM PST by CFW

FALL RIVER — David Mello leads the children’s section of the 19th-century library in the center of the city, a longtime public servant whose ready smile turns rueful when he recalls the ugly protest on its granite steps late last year.

About 20 neo-Nazis shouted at adults and children as they arrived Dec. 10 for Drag Story Hour, a library event in which volunteers who are dressed in drag read books to children. The readers were denounced as pedophiles. Antisemitic slurs were hurled at an adult there wearing a yarmulke. And protesters flashed the Nazi salute.

“It’s now come to our doorstep,” Mello said. “In a building where everyone should feel comfortable, it saddens you that people have to be worried violent protesters might be outside.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: libraries; pedophiles
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I read the above article all the way through waiting to see how the other side of the issue would be presented. I finally found what I was looking for. The other side's view was not presented at all. This is what the corporate media meant when they decided that there was no longer a need to be objective in reporting. One side (the left's side) is correct on everything so there is no need to report the views of those that disagree.
1 posted on 03/03/2023 10:05:24 AM PST by CFW
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If grooming kids is good and the people opposing it are “neo-Nazis”... you might be a Democrat.


2 posted on 03/03/2023 10:07:27 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: CFW

They didn’t “find” themselves at the center, they placed themselves there and dared anyone to knock them out of it. Well, get ready for war, leftist slime.


3 posted on 03/03/2023 10:08:20 AM PST by Da Coyote
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If this guy didn’t want the culture wars to appear at his library steps he shouldn’t have invited them and has no business conducting them.


4 posted on 03/03/2023 10:09:37 AM PST by Billthedrill
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“Antisemitic slurs were hurled at an adult there wearing a yarmulke. And protesters flashed the Nazi salute.”

What BS. Just like those congressmen that Pelosi led to the Capitol building with her huge gavel who claimed they had been spit on and called the N word. Never happened.

David Mello (leads the children’s section) brings in perverts to fondle tykes and he is surprised at blowback? What a progressive jerk. People like him should not be anywhere near our kids.


5 posted on 03/03/2023 10:09:50 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (There is lots of money and power in Green Communism and we all know where Communism ends.)
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it saddens you that people have to be worried violent protesters might be outside

Here's a thought: Don't bring in the drag queens to read stories to little kids
6 posted on 03/03/2023 10:10:02 AM PST by ProudDeplorable (Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. ~ Ronald Reagan)
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To: Billthedrill

Exactly. He waves the red flag in front of the bull and is surprised the bull gets angry, then blames the bull.


7 posted on 03/03/2023 10:10:28 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (There is lots of money and power in Green Communism and we all know where Communism ends.)
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‘It’s now come to our doorstep’: Librarians find themselves at the center of increasingly bitter Leftist culture war
8 posted on 03/03/2023 10:10:55 AM PST by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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If this is Fall River Massachusetts, then I have to wonder if it even happened. I seriously doubt that there are actual neo-nazis in Massachusetts. More likely, this was a group of ordinary conservative citizens, and no nazi slogans or symbols were ever in evidence. But more likely than that, the whole incident is fabricated; wishful Leftist thinking and a way to slander conservatives.


9 posted on 03/03/2023 10:11:11 AM PST by Little Pig
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Awww...his poor little feeling were hurt.

Good.


10 posted on 03/03/2023 10:13:08 AM PST by READINABLUESTATE
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In a building where everyone should feel comfortable,...”

Seems like they don’t really believe that “everyone should feel comfortable”.


11 posted on 03/03/2023 10:16:26 AM PST by KrisKrinkle (c)
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Most Librarians seem to be some of the most woke leftists in the country. How the hell did this happen?


12 posted on 03/03/2023 10:16:42 AM PST by gibsonguy
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Perhaps, just perhaps, bringing in sexual perverts to interact with small children is not considered acceptable by the majority?
13 posted on 03/03/2023 10:17:04 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (The nation of france was named after a hedgehog... The hedgehog's name was Kevin... Don't ask)
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It has been going on for several decades.

If you did not notice you were not paying attention.

14 posted on 03/03/2023 10:17:44 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (The nation of france was named after a hedgehog... The hedgehog's name was Kevin... Don't ask)
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You dragged it to your doorstep and then threw it inside.

You have no one to blame but yourselves.

L


15 posted on 03/03/2023 10:19:16 AM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: gibsonguy

I wish I knew. A lot of people blame their union but I just don’t have any real data.


16 posted on 03/03/2023 10:19:29 AM PST by Billthedrill
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YOUR CHILDREN ARE BELONG TO US


17 posted on 03/03/2023 10:20:31 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Little Pig

I say there is a good chance that the “neo-nazi protesters” were likely to be drag queens who were not wearing drag. They probably took off their tutus, dressed up as “Trump supporters” and put on a little show outside the library.

And, by the way, I worked in MA libraries for a very long time. Librarians, in general, are far Left of Stalin. And the percentage of homosexual librarians is off the charts. These are radical rabble-rousers who would do anything to make Conservatives look bad.


18 posted on 03/03/2023 10:20:33 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (“You want it one way, but it's the other way”)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Yep been watching it get worse every year. The ALA has been a festering swamp of leftist radicals for years.


19 posted on 03/03/2023 10:23:36 AM PST by gibsonguy
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The current president of the ALA:

“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. I am so excited for what we will do together. Solidarity!” —Emily Drabinski, President of the American Library Association


20 posted on 03/03/2023 10:27:54 AM PST by Codeflier (My voting days are over. Let it burn...give the people what they want good and hard.)
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