Self-Described ‘Marxist’ Head of the American Library Association is Surprised by Backlash
“I was excited to highlight and celebrate two aspects of my identity that are really important to me, and are often under a lot of scrutiny”
There are some people on the left who just cannot understand why anyone would find their embrace of communism offensive.
FOX News reports:
Self-declared ‘Marxist’ library group chief stunned by backlash as state pulls funding to ALA
American Library Association President Emily Drabinski said she didn’t anticipate the backlash she would receive to declaring herself a “Marxist” in a tweet shortly after being elected to the role.
“I was excited to highlight and celebrate two aspects of my identity that are really important to me, and are often under a lot of scrutiny,” Drabinski said in an interview published by NBC News Monday, her first since taking office as the president of the ALA last month.
The comments come amid continued controversy over a social media post Drabinski made last year shortly after being elected to lead ALA, the largest nonprofit trade organization for libraries, declaring herself at the time a “Marxist lesbian.”
“I just cannot believe that a Marxist lesbian who believes that collective power is possible to build and can be wielded for a better world is the president-elect of @ALALibrary,” Drabinski wrote in the post, which has since been deleted. “I am so excited for what we will do together. Solidarity! And my mom is SO PROUD. I love you mom.”
The post ignited a movement in states such as Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Louisiana, South Carolina and Wyoming to press their state libraries to defund or cut ties with the ALA.
One such effort in Montana was successful, with the Montana State Library Commission voting last month to withdraw from the ALA over Drabinski’s Marxists beliefs.
“Our oath of office and resulting duty to the Constitution forbids association with an organization led by a Marxist,” the commission said in a letter to the ALA after making the decision.
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A librarian with the last name ending in “ski” embraces Marxism. Life under the Marxist boot worked out so well for her people. My God, how can one be so unaware of history.
Assuming she’s Polish, her family probably left Poland long before the communists took power in 1948, so they never experienced it.
She should post Comrade Putin’s recommended reading list in all the libraries.
Russian Marxists have always tried to exploit Poles as “useful idiots.”
Your proud mom wears Soviet Army boots too, lady.
I don’t care about her personal beliefs.
However, she has chosen encourage Drag Queen story hour and at the same time suppress Kirk Cameron’s book story hours.
My personal kid’s book hero is Dolly Parton. She has donated over 200 MILLION books to kids.
“she didn’t anticipate the backlash”
That speaks of a very limited imagination. All she has to do is imagine what the reaction would be if someone in her position were to describe herself as a National Socialist, or as a White Nationalist. Marxism belongs in the same category, and there are enough Americans who agree with that.
ALA has been a BS far left organization for decades. They drive the phony “I read banned books” week every year. The organization deserves to collapse.
Proud that my state was the first to disavow her and pull out of the association, however the howl from Montana librarians indicates to me there are many more Marxists employed in the educating of our youth