SICK LIBERAL Librarian Wants To GET RID OF ALL BOOKS For An Absolutely HATEFUL Reason!

[rangerrebew]

SICK LIBERAL Librarian Wants To GET RID OF ALL BOOKS For An Absolutely HATEFUL Reason!
 
January 14, 2020
 
Libraries are the greatest thing in the world, even with the advent of electronic reading devices.

Tell you why. When I was younger I lived in a small town and there wasn’t a whole heck of a lot to do, even in the summer. My parents, while they went to work during the day, that I would likely be at one of three or four places. One of them was a library.

The reason that place was so sacred to me and many others is that it was a place where you could learn something at your own pace and at your own interest. You didn’t have to worry about anything other than the pages in front of you. Libraries are supposed to be sacred buildings, not unlike a church if I do say so. The fact that the guardians of these precious buildings want to dispose of their books is sickening.

As a librarian at one of the nation’s most prestigious college institutions, Sofia Leung takes her role very seriously.

http://patriotnationpress.com/sick-liberal-librarian-wants-to-get-rid-of-all-books-for-an-absolutely-hateful-reason/?utm_source=Mailer-IDM&utm_medium=email&utm_content=subscriber_id:702396&utm_campaign=1-15%20PNP%20%232

[skeeter]

At the rate the left is going open, state sanctioned racism is just around the corner.

[roamer_1]

Libraries will soon be gone. A while back there was a big push to throw out the books because of lead in the ink...

It is an undercurrent worth paying mind to...

The thing with electronic copy is that it can be easily edited. And in fact, attempts have been made to have the OS sync local copy with its source... to include deletion if the source is no longer there.

A propagandist's dream.

[Cyber Liberty]

Libraries will soon be gone. A while back there was a big push to throw out the books because of lead in the ink...

It is an undercurrent worth paying mind to...

The thing with electronic copy is that it can be easily edited. And in fact, attempts have been made to have the OS sync local copy with its source... to include deletion if the source is no longer there.

A propagandist's dream.

One of the first Kindle books to receive the edit treatment was....George Orwell's 1984. 

[dfwgator]

"It's not Fascism, when we do it!"

[roamer_1]

One of the first Kindle books to receive the edit treatment was....George Orwell's 1984.

Now there's some irony for you!

[Cyber Liberty]

Now there's some irony for you!

(Nodding.)

[andy58-in-nh]

“Library collections continue to promote and proliferate whiteness with their very existence and the fact that they are physically taking up space in our libraries.”

Sadly, it only gets worse from there:

“If you look at any United States library’s collection, especially those in higher education institutions, most of the collections (books, journals, archival papers, other media, etc.) are written by white dudes writing about white ideas, white things, or ideas, people, and things they stole from POC and then claimed as white property..."     

This is pure, unadulterated, high-test racism (and sexism) thoroughly marinated in identity politics and hatred.  And it is the dominant opinion in today's college  faculty lounges. Soon to be the only opinion.

[Wingnut]

I read about this nutjob back in april.

The author, librarian Sofia Leung, works at MIT and has a full-on identity politics sense of her work. She envisions her life mission as “the struggle against white supremacy, white fragility, structural and systemic racism, and sexism and all the –isms.”

After President Donald Trump was elected in November 2016, she wrote a blog post that began: “Dear Well-Intentioned White People, Perhaps the recent election results have you shocked and suddenly aware of how much your privilege has shielded you from the racist audacity of your fellow white people.”

This is the commentator that Library Journal chose to highlight. When the journal’s tweet went out, the reaction was swift and voluminous. Rejections and denunciations poured in, drowning out the relatively few expressions of support.

When she objected in her blog post to the fact that the books in libraries in the United States “are written mostly by straight white men,” one had to wonder about the sanity of someone complaining that most authors are heterosexual, not homosexual. The Centers for Disease Control set the LGBT population at only 3 percent of the population. To regret that LGBT authors are massively outnumbered by straight authors is to lose touch with reality.

[PeteS in CA]

1. Be aware that the OP article site is likely to open one or more pop-up ads.

2. The female's point is that the "wrong" books are in libraries, not that all books should be banned/destroyed/whatevered.

3. This is not news. The female penned her blogpost in April, 2019, https://boundingintocomics.com/2019/04/18/sofia-leung-library-collections-continue-to-promote-and-proliferate-whiteness-with-their-very-existence/ . Her actual blogpost is now only viewable by subscribers (I tried).

[musiclady]

1. Be aware that the OP article site is likely to open one or more pop-up ads.

2. The female's point is that the "wrong" books are in libraries, not that all books should be banned/destroyed/whatevered.

3. This is not news. The female penned her blogpost in April, 2019, https://boundingintocomics.com/2019/04/18/sofia-leung-library-collections-continue-to-promote-and-proliferate-whiteness-with-their-very-existence/ . Her actual blogpost is now only viewable by subscribers (I tried).

Thanks for that info, @PeteS in CA

The whole story is helpful.

[Fishrrman]

See The Twilight Zone
Season 2, episode 65:
"The Obsolete Man"

Watch it here:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6ywhne

[Smokin Joe]

Well, d@mnit! If they don't hurry up and burn the books, there won't be any left!

Kindle that!

[Gefn]

This really upsets me. I don’t care what her politics are, she’s a librariarian!!!

Shades of “Fahrenheit 451”, no?

[Victoria33]

  One of the first Kindle books to receive the edit treatment was....George Orwell's 1984.

@Cyber Liberty
@mystery-ak

Yes, 1984, that is what I thought when I read this article.
People think we have control over what is in our house - that is not true.  The government now controls our TVs.  They can turn it off so it never comes on again, or they can turn it on, if it is off, to talk to us through the TV.   That is 1984.

Government and law enforcement can find you if you have your phone with you.  That is 1984.

I don't like phones - you get calls, stop what you are doing and answer.  I turn the sound off so I won't hear it ring - then later, I'll check it to see if someone important left a message and call them if I need to. 

I am like Mark Twain, who wrote "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", hated mail, would not open and read it.  He said if the mail was important, the sender could come see him.

I am like Albert Einstein - he hated to make decisions about what to wear, so, he bought a bunch of suits exactly alike, all shirts alike, all shoes alike, all ties alike.  No matter what he grabbed out of the closet, they were all alike, did not have to make a decision.
When I was working and even now, a hanger has all the clothes that go together to make that ensemble.  I look at the hangers and take the one out I want right then.  Don't have to look for individual pieces that will go together. 

[Cyber Liberty]

I don't like phones - you get calls, stop what you are doing and answer.  I turn the sound off so I won't hear it ring - then later, I'll check it to see if someone important left a message and call them if I need to.

That's why I tell people I prefer texts.  They are the 21st Century equivalent of Post-It Notes:  It's how busy people communicate with other busy people.  Now that I'm retired, I'm not busy most days but I still prefer texting because phone calls require me to drop everything to talk to somebody calling, usually robocalls these days.

I am like Mark Twain, who wrote "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", hated mail, would not open and read it.  He said if the mail was important, the sender could come see him.

I am like Albert Einstein - he hated to make decisions about what to wear, so, he bought a bunch of suits exactly alike, all shirts alike, all shoes alike, all ties alike.  No matter what he grabbed out of the closet, they were all alike, did not have to make a decision.
When I was working and even now, a hanger has all the clothes that go together to make that ensemble.  I look at the hangers and take the one out I want right then.  Don't have to look for individual pieces that will go together.

Back when I was married to my ex, I did all my own laundry and I folded my work clothes the way you hang yours.  I'd just grab a pre-assembled twill package and go.  One time I had to go out to do it, somebody I knew saw me, and was astonished I had a bunch of identical clothes.  I guess they thought I wore the same clothes every day. 

I still do laundry.  We got a really nice washer and dryer for the Castle.

[Wingnut]

Back when I was married to my ex, I did all my own laundry and I folded my work clothes the way you hang yours.  I'd just grab a pre-assembled twill package and go.  One time I had to go out to do it, somebody I knew saw me, and was astonished I had a bunch of identical clothes.  I guess they thought I wore the same clothes every day. 

Back in high school we had a teacher who wore same suit everyday.  We thought he only had one.  Turns out he had a closet full of Identical suits.  Senior year we asked him about it.  He said one winter when he was just starting his teaching career (back before electricity) he grabbed a mismatch suit and pants and didn't realize it till he was at school and took off his overcoat.  He was so embarrassed he just bought the same suits from then on.   

[roamer_1]

[...] grabbed a mismatch suit and pants and didn't realize it till he was at school and took off his overcoat.  He was so embarrassed he just bought the same suits from then on.

Blue jeans, t-shirts, white socks if socks. Flannel shirts when applicable. I have never matched a single damn thing in my whole life. I don't even begin to speak that language. Isn't necessary unless there's a woman involved, and then you are better off to let her figger it out.

word.