Re:Librarians Are Dangerous
by amanaplanacanal on Saturday April 19, 2025 @03:46PM
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Resistance against book banners has always been part of their core ideology, there is nothing new about that.
They are not resisting anything.
Re:Librarians Are Dangerous
by altcognito on Saturday April 19, 2025 @09:35PM
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Re:Librarians Are Dangerous
by FrontierProject on Monday April 21, 2025 @08:04AM
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Nothing huh? I guess I'm hallucinating a literal percentage point of the country hitting the streets every weekend.
Re:Librarians Are Dangerous
by anannymoose on Sunday April 20, 2025 @08:17AM
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No one is banning books, you can go buy as many copies as you want yourself and no one will come for them or you.
Forced spending on garbage content is not a human right.
Re:Librarians Are Dangerous
by spartanatreyu on Monday April 21, 2025 @07:30PM
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> No one is banning books
This is the part where you lost everyone
I thought you were harsh, but then I read this piece:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/peel-school-board-lib...
It's dispiriting to see librarians distort a normal process (deaccession) to cover up their own book banning.
In the article librarians talk about the normal process of weeding out old books, duplicates of rare accesses, etc.
The article itself contrasts that with school boards directing librarians to remove far more than tha regular weeding.
The boards set policy that the librarians are compelled to follow or risk being fired.
This is not written by either a journalist or a librarian, so I don't understand your comment at all.
> This is not written by either a journalist or a librarian
I never claimed that it was.
Re:Librarians Are Dangerous
by selfhoster on Sunday April 20, 2025 @11:25AM
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Agreed, I'm glad you stated it so eloquently. I was going to comment but it would have been a more guttural reaction and not well received I'm sure.
I suspect the same thing is happening with librarians as they’ve begun to abandon all pretence of being impartial guardians of information in favor of larping as members of The Resistance. Ironically, the experts never seem to learn that you can only play this game for so long before no one cares what you have to say anymore.