Top librarian calls 'Marxist lesbian' tweet backlash 'regrettable'
Top librarian calls 'Marxist lesbian' tweet backlash 'regrettable'
GOP lawmakers in several states have called for defunding the American Library Association because of Emily Drabinski's identity and political beliefs.
From early 2023, but I didn't hear about it at the time.
i fucking love librarians!!!! theyre up there with my trans comrades!!!! 💛 💓
if you have a problem with librarians than you have a problem with me!!!!
love love love them!!!!!!
Libraries are one of the few remaining public assets in the 'states that pretty universally work well, and I think the right's acute knowledge of that partially contributes to them getting rolled into this latest wave of attacks on the school system/academics at large. Makes sticking up for them all the more important.
Comrade Mao was a librarian. Coincidence? I don't think so
I remember hearing about it (possibly on some queer subreddit), and thought it was amazingly brave that she could be so open about it. It's sad that it's turned so ugly, but I'm glad she's still staying strong.
Freeze Peach strikes again.
:freeze-peach:
This is the best summary I could come up with:
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.
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.
Drabinski, 48, stepped into her year-long term as ALA president at a crucial time for libraries, which have become magnets for protests by right-wing activists and are fighting legislation that aims to restrict the books on their shelves, which frequently centers on objections to titles with LGBTQ-themes.
Marco Rubio of Florida, Kevin Cramer of North Dakota and Mike Braun of Indiana demanded last week that federal funds for the ALA be halted, and that the government investigate the organization for allegedly advising librarians to discriminate against a Christian book publisher.
Drabinski, who grew up in Boise, Idaho, and is a librarian at the City University of New York, sees these critiques as “organized pro-censorship efforts” by people who “want to erode support for public institutions that enable access to information for everyone.”
Bear’s sentiment has been echoed by his colleague, state Rep. Pepper Ottman, who claimed in a July 12 webinar that the ALA’s recommended reading lists were provided “to open children up to pornography” and to groom them for sex trafficking.
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I’d shy away from “redneck” as an insult. It used to mean communists and now means working class rural people. It just divides us from our natural allies just because they live in a different type of area. Most of these fascist fucks are bougie mfers who live in the suburbs.
Agree, both hillbilly and redneck are derogatory terms for working class people.
Who are the Dixie-flying settler-born supposed to be the natural allies of, again? I won't deny that it's not all of them, but the few that aren't overtly like that are in a state of "show and prove" with me; otherwise, that's a real quick way for me to become a chalk outline 'cause I was too trusting.
I was born there; and lived experience is telling me you might be overestimating them a little.
While certainly not all southern people are bigoted rednecks, and bourgeois motherfuckers definitely live in the suburbs, and while it pisses me off that redneck is currently divorced from its original socialist meaning, I feel that many leftists are too easily willing to deny that many rednecks are just as bad if not worse than the stereotypes people say.