After the American Library Association president declared that libraries need to be a “site of socialist organizing,” Brave Books swung back with a salute to freedom.
president declared that libraries need to be a “site of socialist organizing,” Brave Books swung back with a salute to freedom.
The conservative publisher held a patriotic story hour at the South Regional Library in The Woodlands, Texas, featuring the Pledge of Allegiance, the singing of “God Bless America,” and a reading of “The Island of Free Ice Cream,” a cautionary tale about the “dangers of socialism.”American Library Association“I think your point that public education needs to be a site of socialist organizing, I think libraries really do, too, and that happens,”Ms.
Ms. Drabinski, a self-described “Marxist lesbian” who began her tenure as president in July, was referred to by the moderator as “comrade,” as were the others lined up to speak. “I haven’t seen that working in libraries, but I think there’s a real opportunity here to both connect with what’s happening in public education, what’s happening in libraries, but also we need some help in the libraries,” Ms. Drabinski said. “We need to be on the agenda of socialist organizing.”
Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican, called her comments “insane,” saying that “Americans shouldn’t have toxic ideology pushed on them in libraries.”“While we respect the rights of individuals to exercise their freedom of thought and expression,
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