Eh, that’s an understandable fear, but one that assumes a great amount of authority in the ALA. It’s not a governmental body, it’s an organization that advocates for librarianship.
And I don’t often speak in absolutes, but if the American Library Association starts advocating for the banning of legal material in any way, I will eat something gross. Librarianship as a field is on the freedom-side of every censorship fight I can think of, and even whether or not they should allow public access to pornography as a form of protected speech remains still a somewhat contentious issue in library academia.
I understand. Like I said, the ALA doesn’t really have authority to do anything to a library, and they are annoyingly consistent in being anti-censorship.
And that is despite the fact that librarianship doesn’t really attract capitalists and never has. Libraries are “Marxist” institutions. They are tax-funded service providers that do not operate at a profit.
If they didn’t already exist, I suspect little chance that most fiscal conservatives would be supporting their implementation.
Well, they existed before we called socialism “socialism”, but any that were established as a free community service was still operating under a socialist mindset, no?
If you’re talking about ancient libraries, those were generally for the rulers and aristocracy, not the public. The only people who could afford to become scholars and literate were those from the upper-class. So that’s a hard comparison to anything modern.
/u/propertyofUniverse is probably familiar with "socialist anti-censorship" which seeks not to show the public the truth of the Holocaust, what really happened to Russia/Khazaria, or anything the socialists want hidden. It pretends to fight censorship by pushing pornography on children.
Certainly u/propertyofUniverse wonders what knowledge the cabal has hidden away in the Vatican, the Smithsonian and other cabal institutions.
Perhaps 90% of our history and knowledge has been stolen from us by the cabal and replaced by outright lies.
Eh, that’s an understandable fear, but one that assumes a great amount of authority in the ALA. It’s not a governmental body, it’s an organization that advocates for librarianship.
And I don’t often speak in absolutes, but if the American Library Association starts advocating for the banning of legal material in any way, I will eat something gross. Librarianship as a field is on the freedom-side of every censorship fight I can think of, and even whether or not they should allow public access to pornography as a form of protected speech remains still a somewhat contentious issue in library academia.
https://lawreviewdrake.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/laughlin.pdf
Perhaps that's why it matters who is in charge now. We are in an information war, the cabal won't leave a sector uncensored if they can help it.
I understand. Like I said, the ALA doesn’t really have authority to do anything to a library, and they are annoyingly consistent in being anti-censorship.
And that is despite the fact that librarianship doesn’t really attract capitalists and never has. Libraries are “Marxist” institutions. They are tax-funded service providers that do not operate at a profit.
If they didn’t already exist, I suspect little chance that most fiscal conservatives would be supporting their implementation.
Libraries existed before socialism.
Maybe they would be privately funded, or maybe they would have fees. I don't know.
Well, they existed before we called socialism “socialism”, but any that were established as a free community service was still operating under a socialist mindset, no?
If you’re talking about ancient libraries, those were generally for the rulers and aristocracy, not the public. The only people who could afford to become scholars and literate were those from the upper-class. So that’s a hard comparison to anything modern.
Good point. 👍
Certainly u/propertyofUniverse wonders what knowledge the cabal has hidden away in the Vatican, the Smithsonian and other cabal institutions.
Perhaps 90% of our history and knowledge has been stolen from us by the cabal and replaced by outright lies.
We don't even know how much we don't know.