September 29, 2023

As the Marxists ram their equity ideas into all institutions, libraries are a critical target.  Consequently, “progressives and leftists must put public libraries at the top of [their] organizing agendas.”  To that end, they will offer resources to essentially transform libraries into indoctrination centers instead of places of learning.

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The president of the American Library Association, Emily Drabinski, is a “self-described Marxist lesbian who openly posts ‘in support of sexually exposing children, union-led political strife, socialist politicians, and libraries pushing explicit and far-left material on unwilling taxpayers.’  In one 2021 lecture … she stated that ‘queerness includes the subversion of those kinds of normal family types’ meaning husbands, wives, and children.”

In 2012, Fred Lucas wrote, “[L]ike many national organizations, the American Library Association has long been captured by the Left.  It postures as a champion of free speech rights, but in fact it twists the ideas of censorship and free speech to meet the ideological requirements of left-wing activism.”  

ALA has established the ‘Social Responsibility Roundtable,’ the ‘Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Roundtable,’ the ‘Rainbow List’ of the best gay books, and it bestows the Stonewall Award each year for best gay-themed books. This certainly seems like political advocacy.

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But “while bemoaning supposed censorship, the ALA has opposed attempts to have more Christian-themed books in school libraries, and also has rejected attempts by members to take stands against real book banning and anti-free speech threats in other countries.”

As articulated by Dave Seminara, the left conveniently twists the meaning of book-banning.

The Left has been collectively hyperventilating about ‘book bans.’  No one should be surprised that liberals are redefining the word ‘ban’ in an effort to stigmatize conservative politicians leading the movement for parental rights in education.

The first definition of the word ‘banned’ in the Merriam-Webster dictionary is ‘to prohibit especially by legal means.’ So when Americans hear claims from the Left that, say, Florida governor Ron DeSantis is ‘banning books,’ they often incorrectly take those words at face value, assuming that the books have been removed not just from school libraries but also public libraries and bookstores.

This is simply not true.

Moreover, “while many other library associations around the world condemned the Cuban regime’s closure of libraries and jailing of dissident librarians, the American Library Association (ALA) never did.”  It can be attributed to the fact that the ALA has “long been notoriously liberal.”