It’s fascinating how the left basically targeted a profession to take over. Things did not end up going as planned.
Mark Hemingway writes at the Federalist:
America’s Librarians Became Militantly Political, And Now They Suffer The ConsequencesChurchill once said of John Foster Dulles that he was “the only case I know of a bull who carries his own China shop around with him.” Had Churchill miraculously lived another 60 odd years, I think he would agree that when it comes to this particular metaphor, Dulles has been outclassed. At the dawn of Trump’s second term, we even see that the bull has become self-aware and is deliberately trying to break as much of the federal crockery as he can get away with.Last week, Trump issued an executive order proposing the shuttering of seven obscure federal agencies, notably including the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Churlish former Labor Secretary Robert Reich went into high dudgeon, or in Reich’s case maybe just dudgeon, to let us know “Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy. Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media. That’s why Trump is attacking education, science, museums, and the arts. Ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny.”…In 2023 the American Library Association elected as its president a Marxist lesbian. And how do you know someone’s a Marxist lesbian? Well, they’ll tell you. “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,” Emily Drabinski tweeted following her victory. “I am so excited for what we will do together. Solidarity! And my mom is SO PROUD. I love you mom.”Drabinski later deleted her tweet and feigned surprise many people were disturbed to learn a previously apolitical association had been radicalized. However, Drabinski never hid her desire to exploit the ALA’s influence to further her left-wing politics. In an article for a socialist publication last year on how “defending libraries is fighting capitalism,” Drabinski proudly notes that “at least 54% of the 10,000-plus librarians who voted were at least socialist-curious enough to elect me.”Alabama, Wyoming, Missouri, Texas, and Florida eventually cut ties with the ALA in response to the organization’s extremism.
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