#Canadian Librarian Fired For Arguing That Libraries Should Be Ideologically Neutral
...She wrote this piece to be published during "Freedom to Read" week, apparently not understanding that Slavery is Freedom. We really shouldn't be shocked, given that the American Library Association's president is a "proud Marxist" who believes that libraries should be sites for socialist organizing.
At one point, the left was all about freedom, tolerance, and "speaking truth to power". Now that the left ARE the ones in power, it's all about censorship and suppression of opposition. The flip happened during the Obama presidency, IMHO.
"Obsolete, obsolete.." 🤣 fuck'n twilight zone.
I've worked in public libraries for almost 30 years and in the last 10 years or so, there's been a push by the 'library gods' as I call them, to move away from being neutral places to the belief that "libraries can no longer neutral" and librarians must be activists. Take a wild guess what we have to be activists for? It really picked up when Trump became president and it's just gotten worse in the last 3 years. I'm near retirement so I just shake my head in disbelief at the things going on. I'm in the distinct minority and if I say anything it's basically ignored. Sigh.