Comments on: The Marxist librarian

By: Bill Serra

Bill Serra — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 20:41:46 +0000

Not surprising in the least.
Just this spring the Colorado Education Association–the largest teachers union in Colorado–voted to “reject capitalism” for a variety of half-baked SJW/BLM reasons.
Can’t make this up & I dare you to try.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 19:19:23 +0000

Years ago, I remember being informed by the local librarian that my then 13-year old daughter had some overdue books. But she would NOT tell me what they were. It was an invasion of her privacy and I had no right to know what they were…even though I would have been financially responsible if the materials were lost. Man, I was SO angry! I had no right to know what my under-age daughter was reading?! Crazy….
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Of course that’s silly, but it’s part of the occupational self-gaslighting.

By: Catrinket

Catrinket — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 18:25:24 +0000

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 16:09:27 +0000

Mike K.
Be reassuring if we could count on librarians to to that today.

By: Mike K

Mike K — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 14:44:20 +0000

Richard Aubrey on July 20, 2023 at 6:27 am said:
Generally, young children do not go to libraries. They are taken there by their parents. Book choice is up to the parents.

When I was 10 years old (1948) I asked the local librarian to check out the book “The Foxes of Harrow,” a novel about the pre- Civil War South. It was fairly racy for the time and the librarian called my mother to ask if she was willing to let me read it. Incidentally, the author was Frank Yerby, a black writer. I had no idea of his background. I was just a voracious reader at that age.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 13:29:39 +0000

I think it’s common knowledge that, for many years, librarians have been mostly female, mostly lesbians, and mostly leftist. Conservatives often bemoan the Left’s Gramsci-inspired march through the institutions. In the case of libraries, there was no march. It was just a tiny, little baby-step that started in the 1960s.
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Ca. 1995, about 85% of all librarians were female; it may be higher today. Men tended to agglutinate in particular subsets of the trade. School librarians and public branch librarians tend to be almost exclusively female. Academic libraries, central public libraries, state libraries, and federal libraries tend to employ a fair number of men. Certain specialties employ men in large numbers, like law libraries and archives.
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Lesbians are not particularly common among librarians. A disproportionate number are male homosexuals, but the odds-ratio is not that high. A disproportionate number are also Irish bachelors, and the odds-ratio there is higher. Women in library administration tend to be fairly mainstream in their domestic situations, with a mild bias toward low fertility.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 13:14:12 +0000

There are Round Tables within the American Library Association which are manned by serious people, e.g. the Government Documents Round Table. The organization as a whole is flagrantly silly and has been for decades. While this is a function of the occupational culture in general, I think if you unpacked it you’d discover most librarians appear at ALA events to look for work and meet potential employers down the road. They used to read the organizational magazine for the job ads, but that’s the technology of a generation back.
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I think it is so that the organizations for employees of special libraries – e.g. the American Association of Law Libraries – are like some of the Round Tables and avoid the clown car element of the American Library Association. Some of the Round Tables are part of the clown car, of course. The Social Responsibilities Round Table was an in house lobby for red haze drivel and sexual deviance.

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I have a hypothesis about why the ALA is like this.
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I don’t believe current librarians are so naive.
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They are, in ways we can discuss. That’s not their most salient feature, though.

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 10:27:52 +0000

Generally, young children do not go to libraries. They are taken there by their parents. Book choice is up to the parents.

By: Molly Brown

Molly Brown — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 04:39:30 +0000

Mike K and Huxley,
On the needing a new cause theory, agreed.*
A few years ago there was an article by a woman giving reasons why she was no longer a liberal. High up on the list was this; ‘I realized I no longer had to save the world, someone already had.’ Pretty liberating, that. If only more people would stop thinking they had to save the world and start focusing on ‘motes and beams’…
* Or in Huxley’s case, D’ accord. I just had some French guests in my Air BnB – did I get that right? Love, love, love the sound of that!

By: Geoffrey Britain

Geoffrey Britain — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 04:34:35 +0000

"affirming the idea that “queerness includes the subversion of those kinds of normal family types.” She’s referring to the family types that naturally produce children — i.e. a married man and woman…" "Destroy the family, you destroy the country. Vladimir Lenin