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And one more thing......I just don't understand the sudden hatred of libraries.
Even if you are the most racist, hateful person on the planet who believes that any book even mentioning a black person should be banned, there are ways to handle that if you really, really feel the urge to do something.
There you go. You've done your part for your white supremacy movement. You removed all the bad evil books from the library. You will go down in history for your patriotic actions on this day! Never again shall our schoolchildren be subject to the evil horrors of Hank Aaron's biography or reading about a rabbit with two dads, because of you! Rest. Go home, soldier, you deserve it. Problem solved. And look, nobody died!
*(we'll just skip over the part where the library just spends another $12.95 to replace the book. They don't need to know that.)
They hate libraries for the same reason they hate public schooling, and every other public service. Because it's money they pay to help people who are not them.
The hate for libraries and schools goes further than that. Libraries and schools are places where people can learn things that contradict their indoctrination.
They hate libraries for the same reason they hate public schooling, and every other public service. ~Because it's money they pay to help people who are not them~ Because they’ve been manipulated into doing so.
You need two tildes for a strike through. ~~Like so.~~ ~~Should look like this.~~
weird, shows as struckthrough on my screen.
Double weird. What platform are you using? It doesn't show for me on Sync or mobile browser.
EDIT: Is my first example there struck through for you? Because I only have one tilde cancelled?
They hate libraries because it's part of education. They are seeking to dismantle education so people have no choice but to either pay out they ass to send kids to their religious school because the government vouchers don't cover the full cost or have to forgo education entirely and might as well send the kid to work because of relaxed child labor laws and rising costs of everything.
God this is scary real...
Libraries are amazing. I'm a bit biased because my wife is a library administrator, but so many people don't know what libraries have available. Ours, and this isn't a big city, has free 3D printers, online ebooks, audiobooks and streaming movies, fun kits you can take home with you like a ukulele with an instruction book, a PS5 and an HTC Vive in the teen room, even a pancake printer. It prints pancakes in any shape you design in some simple drawing software. How cool is that?
They're opening a new branch and they're going to include, again for free, a room with a lockable door and a sign-up sheet that has a shower and a washer and dryer in it. One person at a time, but think about how many impoverished people could use a shower and some clean clothes. And the library is there to help them.
But these people think all libraries do is give porn to children or whatever.
Libraries have long been a cornerstone of enlightened society. Only republican swine could oppose them.
Growing up I've pretty much always visited libraries... they're the only place nowadays you can go to hang out without buying something, and free internet before smartphones got commoditized
Well, that's super freaking cool. How is it that libraries get cooler every time I hear about them? 😅[Jokey funs] Maybe they turn on the air conditioning just a bit before someone posts about them 🤔But then how do they know?! 🙀
The hate isn't new. The targetting of libraries just went quiet for a while.
https://theconversation.com/battles-over-book-bans-reflect-conflicts-from-the-1980s-177888
I keep saying, none of this is new, conservatives have always been awful.
We've just been living the same ol' shit since the beginning of time, huh?