With Libraries like These, Who Needs to Burn Books?
American Thinker,
by
Eileen F. Toplansky
Original Article
Posted By: crunchycon,
2/21/2021 7:01:46 AM
Why burn books when libraries are doing the censor's work? On January 25, 2021, the American Library Association (ALA) Council reviewed the role of libraries in condemning white supremacy and fascism.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
spacer 2/21/2021 7:36:34 AM (No. 703504)
These are the very same people that argued for porn to be available but " controlled" in our public libraries.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
downnout 2/21/2021 7:47:07 AM (No. 703507)
Some of my earliest memories are of going to the library with my mother. I absolutely loved books and reading. I could go anywhere in the world during any time period thanks to the brilliant authors whose words I devoured. I weep for our country and its people. In their rush to embrace “diversity and inclusiveness”, the left has set us on a road from which I fear there is no return.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
dolphin 2/21/2021 8:25:41 AM (No. 703525)
When I read about the librarian burning conservative books, I wondered about the library. My library has none to burn.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
volksford 2/21/2021 8:26:16 AM (No. 703526)
We are clearly headed for a South Africa situation if this insanity doesn't come to a halt. Get whitey
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 2/21/2021 8:27:52 AM (No. 703530)
We hear talk from the Left of re-education camps for conservatives. However, a better plan is a re-education camp for the Left run by us conservatives if we should ever get back into power. If they believe we are fascists, then let’s treat them the way a real dictator would treat his enemies, by shutting down the liberal media and locking up the most vocal on the left and they somehow disappear. Believe me, they would do that to us.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Scout Finch 2/21/2021 8:52:39 AM (No. 703553)
I work in a small town library with a staff of three. We are one library that would never succumb to such lunacy.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Felixed 2/21/2021 9:14:03 AM (No. 703578)
I've bought books from an online used bookstore for years. Of the more "controversial" titles, two originated from public libraries. And they were _recent_ acquisitions to those libraries. The public didn't have much time to check them out before someone in the respective libraries culled them. Censorship by librarian. Power can be exercised (and abused) in many ways.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
udanja99 2/21/2021 9:53:32 AM (No. 703633)
#4, the left has been all about “get whitey” since 0bama emerged from oblivion at the 2004 demonrat convention.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
columba 2/21/2021 10:25:48 AM (No. 703687)
Years ago I discovered that the American Library Association and Joseph Stalin were soul mates.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Krause 2/21/2021 10:32:44 AM (No. 703700)
Until they name a lot of these supremicists and fascists, I take it as a drummed up fake issue.
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Islam also destroys libraries and cultures. Muslims destroyed 90 percent of the libraries of classical civilization (unlike the Romans, who retained classical culture). They reasoned that if it wasn't in the Quran, it should be burned. If it was in the Quran, they already had it, so they burned it. Here is an excellent presentation by Dr. Bill Warner, with the transcript, "Why We Are Afraid: A 1400-Year Secret".
"The order from the general was this. . .’if it contains any information that is in the Qur’an – we already have it, burn it. If it contains any information that is not in the qur’an, it is false, burn it.’ The same was done with most all of the libraries. Why are we told this was some wonderful ‘Golden Age’ that preserved knowledge for us?"
https://gatesofvienna.net/2012/09/why-we-are-afraid-a-1400-year-secret/
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 2/21/2021 10:46:53 AM (No. 703727)
When they got to the part about their past sin of "a misplaced emphasis on neutrality," I just stopped.
Evil, leftist and racist propagandists have taken over another aspect of American life.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Rather Read 2/21/2021 11:47:44 AM (No. 703814)
I work in an academic library and will retire next year. It's a good thing since the profession has gotten so woke it is very uncomfortable for people like me. I am collecting a personal library of classics since I fear they will eventually be banned for being problematic, or by white men.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
TrueBlueWfan 2/21/2021 11:55:40 AM (No. 703826)
Ever since the lockdowns, I have been downloading ebooks to my tablet from our county's public library. I am amazed by the amount of liberal based books they are pushing. Everything is the Obamas, or how not to be a racist, or black this or black that. Sometimes I search for 40, 50 pages before finding anything not pushing an agenda.
Why can't they let us decide? They have ruined absolutely everything.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Rather Read 2/21/2021 12:01:29 PM (No. 703829)
Amazon and my public library have been pushing books by black authors all month long. But they are all contemporary woke authors. Years ago, I did my own study of a number of writers from the Harlem Renaissance and discovered some excellent ones - Jessie Redmon Fauset, Jean Toomer and George Schuyler to name a few. My library never recommends them. Most libraries are afflicted by what C.S. Lewis called chronological snobbery. To them the past has nothing to teach us and that is a scary notion.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
jasmine 2/21/2021 12:56:05 PM (No. 703871)
To say one was taught to treat everyone the same is not a "tactic." It's a factual response to the prejudiced, false narrative self-serving race baiters are attempting to legitimize.
Their goal is to marginalize "whiteness" by attaching hateful stereotypes to ordinary Americans (the dominant culture) who happen to be white. Note that the librarian blames white Americans for "shutting down the discussion," when in fact no honest discussion can take place that begins with one side dismissing 78 million Americans as "white supremacists" or "facists" and other stereotypes. That is called pre-judging, the foundation of prejudice.
Maybe it's just me, but I believe these kinds of scoldings coming from government workers and left wing politicians are being aimed at ordinary white Americans with increasing frequency. It's almost as though the "structural racism" we've been warned about has been hijacked by the left. Being demonized and stereotyped by politicians who insist you're "irredeemable" puts everyone on the wrong track if the goal is a productive discussion. For example:
"You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic — you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people — now how 11 million. He tweets and retweets their offensive hateful mean-spirited rhetoric."
I encourage everyone to be vigilant, and to call out "structural racism" whether it's coming from government, politicians, or the MSM. The mindless use of stereotypes, as shown above, should be rejected by all Americans. We're not required to play along with left-wing demonization designed to belittle our fellow citizens, regardless of their color.
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Unlike #12, I read past the line about "misplaced emphasis on neutrality" (what a pant load!) but I did stop upon learning about the plan to rectify alleged past crimes through provision of confidential channels for past and current (stand by for a new acronym soon to be added to the vernacular) BIPOC members, staff members, community members, and others to provide direct feedback. BIPOC: black, indigenous, and people of color. No need to burn books, either. The brownshirt goons will simply remove them from libraries.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
msavalla 2/21/2021 11:10:04 PM (No. 704360)
Apparently it is time to start defunding the ALA or have some power to fire communists.
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