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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That's humorous.
So the libraries are banning books that have black people in them? LOL. What she REALLY means is that she wants to make sure that books reflect radical Marxism masquerading as books about black and gay people. There is no protest against books reflecting black and gay people. There is a protest against radical ideology that puts pornography in libraries and indoctrinates kids.
Gaslighting in the first sentence.
Wonder where this type of behavior came from ?
They always seem to be bitter, ugly women......
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.
> Marxism is a political theory developed by German philosopher Karl Marx in the 19th century that critiques capitalism and analyzes class relations,
NBC FELT IT NECESSARY TO EXPLAIN WHAT MARXISM IS?!?!?!
My God, our education system has gone down the toilet and been flushed twice.
It’s “right wing activists” but they don’t refer to Marx as left wing. LOL.
So the problem is Republicans "pounced" on a "single tweet".
See, the thing about weather is, it changes all the time. Here’s my suggestion: we make any US citizen who sings the praises of Marxism trade places with someone who wants to flee Marxism and move to the Marxist country of their choosing for the rest of their lives, but once they are in that country, they cannot use anything invented by capitalism, western civilization or white people ever again.
Did they also mention the Soviet Union and Maoist purges?
I will second the motion by FReeper No Name Given!
Here, let’s get the numbers on the leaderboard from our Marxist “friends” on the record.
I stand with Polish social worker Rafał Gan-Ganowicz on this question.
American Library Association The radical left knows what to target. An aggressive nation killing cancer.
Yes! Give me a good “Republicans pounce” or “seized” line.
“Focused” seems so anodyne, and fails to dramatize just how evil Republicans are
I’m waiting for my perfect (and last) opportunity to ask the Diversity Comrade: “Can you name one company innovation that has come about from an employee \solely\ because that employee was transgender; an innovation that only a transgender employee would have devised?”
Then do gay.
Then do blacks.
Thay believe that “Marxism” is most correct version and that they will get it right this time.
With a minimum of deaths.
NBC FELT IT NECESSARY TO EXPLAIN WHAT MARXISM IS?!?!?!
I think they felt it necessary to explain away the significance of Marxist by surrounding it with boring and irrelevant words, so that readers would not understand what Marxism means.
The importance of Marxism in this context is not its name, but what follows from it: It is the ideological theory that inspired and guided the Russian Revolution, Hitler's National Socialist ("Nazi") movement, Mao Tse-Tung's revolution and 80-year death cult in China and eastern Asia, and the destruction of both native cultures and modern governments in Africa and South America, leading to the wholesale, state-operated murder of hundreds of millions of innocent civilians, the theft of multiple trillions of dollars in wealth, and the destruction of productive capacity in about a third of the populated world.
They were hoping readers would not grasp what it means to be in favor of Marxism.
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