That way art and education can become the sole province of the Rich again.
Just like Republican Jesus wanted.
(working in higher ed, I’m appalled by the rise of costs to students resulting in two paths for ‘regular’ families: avoid college or become a debt slave, restricting upward mobility for generations)
Same in VA. Same pretty much everywhere. Cities along with the immediate surroundings are typically blue, rural areas are red. Every state is like that.
They’ve become liberal grooming centers.
I mean, I haven’t been to a library in years because internet and Amazon/Kindle but are they saying if I go to the library now and open up a card catalog drawer I’ll only find gay stuff trying to convince me to get gay?
Or are they saying I could get a decent haircut by a liberal? Or just a gay haircut?
I’m gonna have to get to a library and see what’s going on. I’ll ask the librarian where the grooming books are and see what they show me.
Any good public library has a clear, written collection development policy, and librarians use that as well as standards established by professional organizations like the ALA to make their purchasing decisions. Public libraries also have a local board, usually elected, and a process available for patrons to challenge materials they believe should be removed. In addition, in most public libraries, the majority of full-time staff will have an advanced degree that is intended to specifically train them for the job of selecting and maintaining the collection, among many other roles they fill. The idea that ignorant and duplicitous state lawmakers think they can make these determinations better than people that have trained for and worked in their jobs for years is ludicrous. A public library needs to have materials for everyone they serve.
Yet it’s a reality that we need to contend with, because it’s happening right now. As much as it sucks, and as much as it’s wrong, it’s also happening.
Or, as I tell my teenagers, especially those of color or other minority, it ain’t fair, in ain’t right, but it is until we change it. Until then, keep it in mind.
They’ve realized that it’s socialism.
BTW: gotta go break out my “What’s more punk than the public library?”
They’ve always believed it’s socialism, but libraries are universally beloved across the political spectrum. Notice that they are generally speaking not talking about how it’s “socialism” but are coming at it from a “culture wars” argument, which holds more sway with their supporters than the socialism argument. Their voters do not agree it’s socialism, because it’s something so ingrained in American society at this point, that they can’t think of their communities without a public library. They CAN however, embrace the idea that such things should not cater to everyone, but only to the “right” people.
For anyone wondering:
“The shirt was inspired by a flier that D.C. librarian Chelsea Kirkland created with a version of the slogan while tabling for the library at the D.C. Punk Rock Flea Market, an annual all-things-punk sale held at a nearby church.”
well… land doesn’t vote after all.
there’s some rationale in making sure rural areas get their needs addressed, and that cities don’t get all the attention. but likewise counties with ten or twenty thousand people a piece definitely shouldn’t have a stranglehold on access to books or education ( or healthcare,etc. ) for kids within the state.
both for the sake of the kids themselves, and for the sake of the (much larger) majority of people within the state who need those kids to become informed citizens in their own turn.
Segregated Libraries V2.0.
Like the original version, but worse!
Your kids will love it.
Or even kids within their own areas, either.
This is reminiscent of when racist communities were ordered to integrate their public swimming pools. The communities’ response was simply to close the public swimming pools.
Other than in Europe back when monasteries were the centers of intellectualism and reading for that matter where else were there church sponsored libraries?
Maybe in the old west back in the pioneering days and by west I mean Tennessee there were some. What I want to know is where these church sponsored libraries he wants to fund are now?
Or, maybe more applicable, when VA schools were ordered to integrate and the gov just closed down public schools in a “massive resistance” movement. Preventing education and free exchange of ideas and (maybe most important) facts is very high on the fascist wish list.
Um, friend, referencing 1984 as a fresh take of the problems of today is about 1000km behind where the level of discourse here on BB is. You may want to spend more time reading and less time trying to make yesterday’s points.
Weirdly, like the Scopes Monkey Trial, everyone remembers this case but remembers the opposite conclusion from what actually happened.
You absolutely can shout fire in a crowded theatre.
The expression comes from a judge’s notes in the Schenck decision in 1919 in a case about espionage of all things, but the relevant decision is in Brandenburg v. Ohio in 1969.
Speech like that is only banned if it’s “likely to incite violent action” which shouting “fire” in a theatre is not. It’s going to incite a bunch of people glaring at you wondering what they hell you’re doing and would you please sit down and shut up. Case law has shown that the bar for “likely to incite violent action” is impossibly high in any case.
Or a mass stampede to the locked fire exits and some people being crushed or trampled to death.
Maybe not illegal, as you say - but perhaps some courts might interpret that as ‘likely to incite violent action’.
Veering off topic, but an example of how awesome local libraries are, that mt. Pleasant library has this amazing mural in the Children’s reading area, it’s a little nook, like sitting in a fancy blanket fort:
I used to live around the corner.
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