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It tells you a lot about the American right that "free speech" is the most important thing to them when it comes to people spouting white supremacist hate, but they're absolutely silent about free speech in situations like this/
Leaving aside the horrific way people treat these libraries and the people who work and volunteer there...
​>The tax in question is about $24 on houses with a market value of over $250,000.
People who squeal about paying $24 a year to give their community the literal world at their fingertips can fuck right off. >

Starting in 2010 they did the same thing with school teachers. We were shunned from churches (treated poorly) because my wife was a teacher. >

How very Christian of them! >

"Love thy neighbor unless they disagree with your political beliefs."
-Jesus apparently >

He is risen...his Gadsden flag to stab people with. >

Libraries are supposed to be magical places for kids to discover, imagine and help them decide their place in the world as they learn more about it. Librarians help with that journey. 
This angers me to no end. I loved my small-town library growing up and one of the reasons I have the level of empathy that I do was because of the books I read, with no “banning”, no pulling controversial books and the ability to ask questions without judgement. >

Libraries are one of the few true "third places" in most communities, where there is no expectation of spending money. It's vital that we keep these special places alive and thriving. >

That's why they want them gone. >

That's why capitalists want them gone
Why do religious folks want them gone?
For the latter I'd say the reason is the same as why they want public education gone. To them more secular education means less religious education and more religious education means less secular education. They view the world as a zero sum game, and they want to win >

Whenever somebody wants to ban something or at least make it too difficult or expensive for normal people to own or use, I always ask who has the most to gain from it. Just saying. >

Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master." >

Yea that quote worked before "free speech" became the cloak fascism uses to spread. >

I'm a librarian and based on the other librarians I know - we're not backing down from this shit.  
We have a duty to the public to make sure our collections represent everyone in the community and offer perspectives on every lifestyle.  If you don't want to read a book, then don't read it.
I'm lucky that the town I work in hasn't had to suffer too much of this nonsense, but there's a small part of me that wishes I could get a chance to confront these assholes. >

Librarian here. No one in my system is backing down. We’ve been lucky. Just a few people “How dare you promote this book about being gay! It’s a sin! Wait til the church hears about this!” Well, contrary to your beliefs, we are not a Theocracy. “You don’t carry any conservative authors!” They say as they return yet another Jordan Peterson word-vomit sandwich he calls a book. You can’t make these clowns happy. So I won’t and I don’t. The day these kind of bastards show up to something and make a scene… I hope I have a modicum of the bravery this individual had. No more letting bullies do whatever they want. >


“You don’t carry any conservative authors!”

Can't you just point them to thinks like "Art of the Deal", or any number of autobiographies from any number of famous conservatives?
Maybe point out that authors are often creative types, and creative types who get political, tend to make more liberal social commentary in their books, so it's not so much an attempt at trying to mitigate conservative authors, but that statistically, conservative authors are just fewer in number.  Then point them to the math books so they can learn their numbers. >

Oh logic doesn’t work. They want to be mad. I’m lucky to be in a rather liberal area of my state so we don’t have a ton of issues but the few we do have just want to direct their rage at someone. Same shit with masks. Anything they don’t like, they will get butthurt about. It’s the conservative evangelical way. >


Anything they don’t like, they will get butthurt about. It’s the conservative evangelical way.

This comes directly from the pulpit.  Fifty-two times a year Pastor/Father/Reverend So-and-So has to come up with forty-five minutes of something, and very frequently it's us-vs.-them horseshit to bond everyone listening more closely together. >

addicted to grievance >

I love her and hate she has to experience this hatred for nothing. She's stomping on fascism. We need more like her. >

There are many more like her. And they are coming to their breaking points also. Positive change is coming but just like birth it's messy and painful. >

I’m just not gonna put up with their attitudes anymore. Speak up!!! Fight back! When these people get a spotlight pointed at them they run back to their cockroach crevices like the cowards they are >

The problem is sometimes you fight and you win and sometimes you fight and the career you thought you had vanishes and then no one in your area hires you because you're a "problem".
I'm a teacher. I see plenty I can fight back on but I also know that speaking up puts a target on my back and unless someone is willing to come out and foot my bills if I lose my job, then I have to be real careful when and where I put my neck out. >

Funny enough this is the actual point of tenure, so that teachers wouldn’t feel threatened by policy that they don’t agree with >

Long-time teacher here. Tenure (and union membership) does protect you to a considerable extent, but if a principal or supervisor at board level want you gone, there are ways of doing it-most often the unannounced informal observation with request for lesson plan. While most teachers with any sort of time in the classroom are going to be on top of their lesson delivery game, unless you work in a district where it’s a requirement that you produce a lesson plan ahead of time, most veteran teachers don’t bother with writing them. This a technicality that many administrators will exploit, seizing upon it as “proof” that the teacher was not adhering to standard practice. If it’s a loophole that can be successfully argued against by a good union rep at a hearing, then administrators make unannounced walkthroughs in the hopes of capturing disciplinary lapses in classroom management  procedures. One child with his/her/their head down out of 30? Teacher’s not supervising the learning process appropriately because everyone’s not engaged. If the union rep successfully counters this, then job assignments change. You’ll still teach in your subject area, but instead of the advanced placement/college prep classes you’ve taught for the past 10-12 years, you’ll be given remedial classes, and they’ll group known behavioral issues in there. Used to running a club during the after school,academy to make extra money? That’ll go to someone else. There are a hundred ways to create a work environment hostile enough to make the teacher want to resign, if you can’t force them out. None of this has happened to me, but in 27+ years of teaching I’ve seen it happen to more than one colleague for being outspoken. >

This happened to me. You are spot on and it's a disgusting practice. Long story short I reported a colleague's sexual comment and gesture towards me (because another supervisor recommended I do that) and the principal turned on me immediately. Total Good Ol' Boys club shit but I was new and had no way of knowing the hornets nest I was stepping into. Put me in situations that were difficult on purpose, hoping I'd fuck up. Misconstrued student behavior issues to make me sound crazy or like I wasn't handling kids correctly. Tried to make me physically intervene with kids that weren't special Ed (my license area) while he stood there and watched. He harassed and degraded me for a full school year, forced me to resign from my own job, and he retired that year. I was destroyed. 
Thankfully I'm at a good school with a good principal now...but it was a long journey out of the darkness. >

I’m both sorry that happened to you, and relieved to hear that you’re teaching in a much more welcoming environment. No one should have to go through that, especially one who performs a crucial function for the school in an underappreciated, undersupported position >

Thank you. What's shocking is that even if these admin want you gone, it's not just enough to get rid of you. They have to do soul crushing shit because it's a power trip. I don't think they consider or even care that they destroy lives with this shit. I was deeply depressed for a year and a half while this was going on, and had to take anxiety and anti depressant meds just to be able to walk in the building. I had to go to therapy. They make you think you're a bad teacher, when you very well may not be. >

Where are all the free speach absolutist conservatives in these situations? Seem to me they're very much in favor of curbing the first amendment as long as it aligns with their dogma.
I'm sick and tired of the "protect the children" arguments. I have children and I PARENT them. It's not the library's responsibility to gatekeep what my children read. It's not the network's responsibility to gatekeep what my children watch. It's not a game companies responsibility to control what kind of games my kids play. IT'S MINE.
None of this has anything to do with protecting children. It's 100% just a smoke screen to promote and normalize their bigotry. >


Where are all the free speach absolutist conservatives in these situations?

They were never 'free speech absolutists.'  They just used the machinery of 'free speech absolutism' to enable them to spout their insane, usually racist, often authoritarian, always extremely anti–free speech ideologies. >

Not to mention anti-lgbt sentiment.
You can look at the lists of books that they want banned and if it's because of sexual content then it's 100% chance it is LGBT content.
They want to ban genderqueer, this book is gay, the color magenta, boy blue, etc.
But I've never seen anyone up in arms about into Looking for Alaska which also has graphic sex scenes.  They don't seem to mind when their people tall about sex either.  No age requirements if a kid wants to buy Ben Shapiro's book that talks about pegging.  Want to buy bill O'Reilly novel about a pimp?  Sure.  The Bible has passages detailing a woman's preference for horse sized cocks or attempted mob rape of angels
And these idiots pick on libraries rather than Amazon or Google because they always pick on the people least able to fight back. >

Gee, these "conservatives" sure love them some fascism, don't they? >

Conservatives genuinely think that they can tell people what to do, and take serious offense when they find out they aren’t special.
Literal children. >

It's like the whole snowflake meme was ALSO projection. >

Gaslight Obstruct Project >

It makes sense that they want to restrict access to books and learning because books and learning might actually challenge their worldviews and leave them without an appropriate response >

That’s how they kept me indoctrinated for 25 years. Christian schools my whole life, villainizing the public school down the road - those “sinners”. Everything is dangerous, Harry Potter is evil (my parents didn’t restrict me much at all thankfully, most of my indoctrination happened at school and church). In biology class we learned creationism, in bible class we learned like five weak-ass points to argue against evolution. It was so fucking pathetic. And I just passively believed it all. Thank god I moved away when I did and met different kinds of people, even different kinds of Christians. >

Damn, I got lucky, the Christian schooling I received was secular af. In our Bible classes we were taught it was all a metaphor or an allegory. Like my schools literally had the view of science is true and that it doesn't disprove God. They had the stance for example, God created the big bang and that evolution was a sign of God's intelligent design. I eventually had my own problems with them because of their snobby attitudes but they are least believed in science >

Was the school Jesuit by any chance? My impression of Jesuit schools is that they’re more fact based than most evangelical schools. >

The schools in my area were all founded by the Sisters of Mercy in cooperation with the Benedictine sisters, so if anything you can call it Benedictine since that is the more well known of the two. Its more so that Catholics are more secular than other denominations. >

MAGAS have ruined everything. Every day it’s another fight. Another death threat. Another attack. Another doxing. Anything they don’t like is “woke”. They want to suppress speech. Make everyone around them miserable. They vote for leaders not based on what work they’re going to do, but based on how they will own the libs. Their thinking is in the minority but through temper tantrums, fear, and unethical means they attempt to force their will on everyone else. And they don’t even know what their going to be mad about next week...it’s whatever Tucker (and others) decides to tell them they’re mad at. Grown-ass people acting like bratty violent 5 year olds who have earned no respect from anyone around the world. >

They are dumb and have realized their only power is in being annoying. >

So conservatives wanted the library closed and when it finally happened they didn't know why it was closed? Typical. >

No, they decided they knew why it was closed. They wanted it to be because the library was pulling a melodramatic stunt, so they decided it was. 
That's how these people's brains work. You or I might think it would be grotesque and embarrassing for a governmental entity to pull a childish stunt, but tell that to a DeSantis supporter. >

conservatives are enemies of the American people. >

Conservatives are enemies of people period >

"Conservatives" nowadays are nothing more than regressivists. >

Weird way to spell "fascist". >

There was a time that this speech would have shamed the offenders, but they now live in the age of "double down."
It's also why DC is failing right now.  The founding fathers had a Victorian sense of honor where scandals would cause self-resignations.  No longer.
We now need laws rather than trusting the honor of conservatives.  They have none. >


but they now live in the age of "double down."

Isn't this the truth!  They know no shame whatsoever. >

Their masks are off and they can’t hide anymore being horrible people. >

Totally.  And the damnedest thing is they have a lot of votes, still, to continue.  I would like to say they are fucked and on the way out, but I don't think for a moment they are. >

I'm really hoping Millennials and Gen Z fucking save us - and the world in many respects - because they may be our last hope at this rate. >

For sure.  Too many of my people (Gen X) are Boomer-lite. >


“50% Millage INCREASE to GROOM our kids? Vote NO on Library!” one sign that was directly across the street from the library said, using the regional term “millage” to refer to the property tax. In November, residents again voted to defund the library.
Last week, the library closed early, citing “staff safety.”
At this past Monday’s board meeting, people discussed the early closure. One person suggested that the library board was “fear-mongering” and lying about threats against the library. Another woman suggested that the library was closed early as “a strategy intended to manipulate public opinion about a particular issue by arousing fear or alarm.”


Prime /r/LeopardsAteMyFace material. They're mad that the library is closing early AFTER they voted to defund it. And are mad that their hateful signs are working. What the fuck did they think was gonna happen? >

I think it is patently false assuming these people are capable of independent thought.  They are Orwell's "2 minutes of hate", but instead of 2 minutes, it is every waking hour.  And they get their daily outrage from fox and infowars. >

First off how does someone calculate a 50% millage at only $24 per year?  
Second fuck these people.  
Lastly this lady is gold.  Good for her. >

Using the same standard there are probably thousands of books in any given library to the “groom” heterosexuals. We need to ask the question “why” are so ok with it? >

Non-conservatives are being pushed to the edge with all this bull shit. I snapped at my old man the other day when I normally just bite my tongue on political matters.
He was stunned by my anger and aggression at the American political landscape. I also drove home the point that none of this stuff republicans want you to be mad about effect him in any way at all. All of this shit is just punching down on other people and the rhetoric does real harm.
People need to start speaking up. Conservatives truly believe they are some silent majority of people being persecuted because of the nonsense pumped into their brains from tv, radio, internet, idiots like Jim Jordan practicing theater on committees or the congressional floor.
Enough is enough. Stop biting your tongue and shout down nonsense. If that’s the only way to get a word in. >

I agree. People need to stop being the better person, or being afraid of the conflicts it will certainly cause and speak up against the bs that is being pushed by extremist Christians >

Yeah but it feeds into their victim complex. There's no winning. >

“I don’t like bullies…I don’t care where they’re from”.
Every bully sees themselves as the victim instead of the one they’re bullying; “You made me do this” they scream as they punch down.
That doesn’t mean you let them continue if you have the courage to stop them. >

Hi, not a librarian, but I work in Circulation at a library and often handle patron complaints. It's a shit show right now. We get so many people harassing staff about our choice to wear masks that most staff stopped wearing them just to avoid abuse. Our call center is the worst; I regularly get called names or are shouted at just for trying to provide services to the best of my ability. I feel lucky I don't usually hear from the censorship assholes, but it's still not a fun time to be a library staff person. 
I should point out that my library is one of the lucky ones; others in our area have it so much worse. >

$24 per household worth over 250,000. That is all this library needed for baseline funding, it may not have even been adequate. This was voted down because people are full of hated and bile. Very soon there won’t be a library and your children and seniors who are used to going there will need to visit another town’s. 
Of course it’s up to that town council to let you obtain library cards and usage of their facilities and just like you they will exercise their rights to vote. Great job in destroying your town’s literacy and reputation. >

Without a doubt that's what these losers want. >

Christian nationalists are terrorists >

Sick, addle-brained degenerates being learned by an elderly librarian; in one deranged ear and out the other. 
It’s so deeply unfortunate their idiotic notion of hell doesn’t exist. >

It is, because reading Matthew it is quite clear they are directly the ones Jesus says will go there, shocked because they went through the mechanical motions of being "Christians" while alive while not getting Jesus' effing point. "Workers of lawlessness." >

Jesus will say “I never knew you” to all of them >

Repeat after me: I WILL NOT FUCK WITH LIBRAIRIANS. They know where everything is. >

I doubt most of the people wanting to ban books have ever stepped foot in a library >

Yeah most people just complain and when we send them the process for reconsideration of materials they never contact us again. It requires you to read the ALA bill of rights, the entire book, sign a sworn affidavit that you've done these things, and detail what exactly you find objectionable, and cite where these passages are, and why they are objectionable.
Then the collection management coordinator will respond to the request. My system has never removed an item due to a challenge thankfully. But we also don't get many serious challenges
Source: am librarian >

That's what these bullshit "grooming" allegations really are, a tactic to undermine needed public services like public schools and libraries. Conservatives don't like the educated. They don't want thinkers that will challenge them, they want workers that will serve them. >


“Pray that we can make changes and make the Patmos Library a safe and neutral place for our children,”

Neutral , of course, means capitulating entirely to a singular world view at the expense of further alienating lgbtq kids or anyone interested in reading stories featuring them. Merely existing is treated as a political stance. >

To paraphrase Rage Against the Machine: 

They don't gotta burn the books they just remove 'em -
While arms warehouses fill as quick as the cells -
Rally 'round the family, pockets full of shells >

Burning books are first; people are next...
Fuck all religion.
Christians are no different than the Taliban. >

Hail Satan! >

Christians don't like any books less the bible.  They don't like any values less those in the bible.  They religiously profess these values every Sunday.  And reserve Monday-Saturday for the commission of sins they know they can be absolved of by simply saying sorry.  Theirs is not a world of sanity.  It is a world of unsubstantiated belief in a mystical God and the words of their bible that were written by men wishing to control them. >

Tell them what the Bible means and says, and they don’t like the Bible either. Seriously, use it against them and they will absolutely freak. >

Yeah, I was just gonna say, I dont know any Christian's that have actually read the bible, if they did, their belief systems would probably be different. >

i’ve known plenty of them that claim to have read it, but it’s like me reading a high level medical text for brain surgeons - reading the words doesn’t mean shit if you don’t know what they mean. >

What kind of self centered easily manipulated hateful jackass that not only has the intelligence of a simpleton but also has the entitlement of a toddler defunds a library because they believe if someone even sees a book that has the idea of gay that it sets the grooming in motion…..geez-us
I would be willing to bet if the CDC said covid had a gene marker that could turn you gay all of them would have worn a mask.
(sorry for the run on sentence) >

Good for the librarian for standing up to such nonsense. >

I find it amusing that the same people who say no one cares about libraries s anymore (always around budget season) are also protesting and saying they are so dangerous. >

As a librarian, I'm with her. The most thankless job on earth is being compounded by idiots and ideologues telling us how to run our institutions and calling us monsters and pedophiles for all our efforts. Since college, I've always said that the library is a good way to tell how functional a democracy is. We're fucked as a society if this trend continues. >

I worked as a librarian and library manager for years until I resigned at the start of Trump’s presidency. In one of my last weeks I was training a new librarian on desk when an old man started ranting about Obama. When I informed him I wasn’t there to talk politics with him, but to serve him, he literally hissed at me. I was like nine months pregnant and this man hissed at me for not applauding and agreeing with his MAGA politics. I can’t even imagine how bad it is now. >

Why do conservative Christians care so much about what’s in libraries?  It’s not like any of them can read. >

They want to shove their opinions on you. >

While snatching everyone else's opinions off the shelves and burning them. >

$24 dollars for homes over 250,000...$24.
This is all over $24. >

I just read that and my jaw dropped open. That’s it?! Just $24?! Christ these people need help. >

It's time for librarians and everyone else who is being slandered by these MAGA nazis to sue the shit out of them and bankrupt their asses like Alex Jones.  Anyone who gets falsely called a groomer or pedo should sue immediately.  It's time to crush this fascist movement. >

It’s like explaining algebra to a fucking cat… >

They claim that kids are being groomed... but are perfectly fine with the absolute sexualization of young girls in "beauty pageants."  These people are not Christians. They are hypocrits. >

Librarians are my heroes. They are some of the most subversive folks in America! >

We need to stop calling them conservative, they are Nazis and have always been. >

If they really want to get rid of "harmful" books they should start with the bible. That piece of science fiction has caused more suffering than any of these books they are protesting against >

If someone can’t afford an extra $25 dollars a year on their property taxes they should probably reassess their priorities instead of whatever it is they think they’re doing. >

This is pretty interesting. Our library, in a different state, just got 50% of their funding removed for very similar reasons. It got put on the 2022 ballot and the community voted to do this. The library had multiple branches in smaller towns (it's a county library) and they've already had to close some. The survival of the library in general is at risk, which is a shame for obvious reasons but also because there are many testimonials from people who were homeless or otherwise down on their luck and they used the library services to find jobs and improve their lives. What will replace this institution when it's gone? I don't see the people who voted to defund stepping up to provide these services. Such a disturbing trend. >

Hate and violence in the name of your religion is hypocrisy that my toddlers could point out. Why is it that no grown ass adults can ever see this? >

Good for her, she’s a modern hero…but…you can’t appeal to reason with people who have none. >

Librarians are the best. 💕 >

These morons. They need a library. They need to read books. >

People don’t realize the amount of effort radical conservatives are putting into the lower levels of our community governments. They’re running for seats on school boards and town councils and implementing outdated, close minded, backwards ass policies. They’re oppressing free speech in the name of free speech >

Good for her for standing up for herself. These people attacking her are the scum of the earth. >

Christians should be embarrassed with themselves but I know they won’t be cause they’re all hypocrites >

My dad called them Sunday savers. Sin all week then get saved on Sunday >

He’s a wise man >

Christianity is poison. >

I wish Democrat politicians had half the balls in DC, when dealing with Republicans, that this random small town librarian shows at a library board meeting. >

Good for her. Will it change anything? Doubtful. I guess ‘freedom’ doesn’t extend to our public libraries. >

Its already affected people in this thread. If it inspires people to stop tolerating bullying, bigotry, and prejudice, then I think it absolutely is changing things.
All change happens one person at a time. People feel more comfortable coming out of their shell by seeing examples of people who have stepped up to do the right thing, and that’s a positive effect of her taking an important stand. That’s change. >

Can we take a moment to appreciate that the title of this article didn't include the word 'slams'? >

Christian Conservatives are the scariest uninformed group of sheeps >

Theres no hate like Christian "love" >

If you don't want to read offensive books don't check them out. My library carries Mein Kampf and normal people don't care because it's a book not a weapon. >

She's not the only one fed up with these lying hypocritical self righteous assholes. >

MAGA is about as close as you can get to being a Nazi while also being incredibly, observably stupid >

MAGA is Nazism repackaged, full stop. >

$24 for homes valued over $250,000... Some cheap christian conservative is using this to get people fired up. All the pedos and groomers keep turning out to be republican/conservatives and preachers. >

Let’s just call it what it is - Republicans are groomers.
They are projecting their fears about being terrible parents on anyone they can so that when their kids grow up to be assholes or anything else they don’t approve of, they can blame someone else. >

Like many who have posted in here, I am also a librarian. The support you can offer your local library is to stop on by and say hello. From a statistics point of view you boost our materials circulation and door count to show we are an institution being used. One of the common arguments against libraries is,“ who even uses libraries anymore?” It is hard to use this argument when we have statistics showing we have X amount of people come through our door and also Y circulation of material. Plus this lets us know what cool shit to buy for the collection. If we see Christian fiction is circulating that’s what we buy. If my community has a sudden demand for lgbtq+ materials, that is what I have to buy. The benefit for you is libraries offer a lot of cool stuff and have awesome free programs for you and your family. Did you buy grandma a neat new gadget and don’t have time to teach her? Check us out. We offer free educational classes, story times, and event paranormal lectures. Want free audiobooks and graphic novels? Check out Libby and tell your library to get Comics Plus in your local AppStore. Want your kid to have a cool group of friends? Check out Teen Advisory Board programs for volunteer hours and letters of recommendation for college. From a selfish librarian standpoint, we want all the awesome people in the building. We are a center of our community. Don’t worry about over working us. We know what we signed up. Turn up for the humans in your community no matter where they work or who you are. Your support is contagious. 
(This has been a psa from your friendly neighborhood librarian. Your experience and mileage of your local institutions may vary.) edit: spelling corrections. >

Conservatives hate libraries. They're afraid a poor kid might learn something and be able to compete with their kids >

Good. Defund libraries. Close the schools, too. Send kids back to the mines. Teach them real AMERICAN values. Let’s make this country great for robber barons only again! They are our superiors! >

Fuck the Russians Nazi fucks for fermenting these vile enemies within our country. 
Honestly, the more we hurt the russians, the less we have of this fucking shitshow.
1000x M1A1 FOR UKRAINE! >

That particular area of Michigan is full of a bunch of backwards ass Christians. They want the library closed because education almost always leads to questioning their faith, and they just can't have that. To them, education is dangerous to their lifestyle. And they're right, it is. >

Librarians rule! >

My mom is a librarian. I'm glad no one pulled this shit with her. I would have gone full MAGGOT style, and stood outside with a shotgun to protect my family, and my library. >

Sometimes I hope there is a Heaven so I can laugh at all the "Christians" who won't make it in. >

Living in really Conservative places sucks. >

Never thought my little township would ever be in national news for this long.
People that live here are idiots though. >

Fringe republicans are going after libraries and school boards. They believe the education system is a failure and grooms children. This is all the new boogeyman conservatives have created to cause an uproar and erode trust in public education and public resources like libraries. Make no mistake they are willing to hurt anyone who stands up against them. >

The GOP has become an embarrassment to humanity. They literally have become brainwashed thralls of a handful of rich grifters. >

We need to come up with a new name for these degenerates that are just spreading hate in any way they can wanting to get things to get physical. They’re beyond conservatives. They’re way beyond Christians. Being raised a conservative and being a Christian I can’t even begin to understand these horrible judge mental clowns. I picture them as being the westboro Baptist church going to military funerals to protest the soldier died because America is turning gay, and trying to get the anti protesters to get physical with them just so they can sue the shit out of them and push their agenda. None of these people are biblical Christians. At least not in the way jesus (you know, the center piece of CHRISTianity) would have them be. >

Conservatives will dig their own graves while calling the shovel a "groomer liberal" >

Librarians stood up to Bushs crap, too. After 911. Also, their eyeglass chains are really garottes. >

The stupidest part of the US has decided that they're done feeling stupid and wrong all the time. The problem is that instead of taking the harder and mature route of realizing the problem lies with them and trying to improve, they've decided to attack the reality and facts that makes them feel stupid and wrong. The people who went 'f your feelings' want to destroy anything that hurts their feelings and I highly doubt that at this point anything but force is going to stop them because they are not operating in reality or from a position where they can be reasoned with. >

im so fucking sick of a minority of religious conservatives shitting in our mouths and making this country miserable for the rest of us, that i barely even want to live in it anymore.
thank the plausible but unlikely god that midterms rebuked these thinly veiled heathens back to their caves in most congressional districts.
but if I'm being real with myself, i know it's not enough. they'll just keep cutting public infrastructure and starving out nonviolent decency all while loudly accusing their neighbors of being murderous pedophiles. and they'll just keep breeding more of the same. fucking keep throwing shit, you wilful apes. its making a few people a LOT of money.
I wish the real silent majority of Americans bothered to put their foot down and vote the stage-4 GOP lunacy out of the public discourse before it settled in for good. and yes, i am totally beside myself because I chose to educate myself and vote for common  best interests.
i defy anyone to point out how I'm overly cynical here >

Hate speech isn't free speech. Harassment and threats against people just for existing must stop NOW. >

Religious people aren’t told to “fuck off” enough. >

There are no good republicans >

Tell your local libraries in this position that you support them.  Show up. Check out books (whatever kind you like) to help their circulation rates.  Put pro-library signs in your yard or in your car. Write to the newspaper.  They came for my library this year and it survived the city and borough councils’ votes, and then a ballot measure, but barely, and it’s only because people spoke out, went on the radio, protested FOR the library, showed up to council meetings, etc. It’s left a huge emotional wound on literally the kindest people I know. Tell them you appreciate them. >


“I’m Catholic, I’m Christian, I’m everything you are. But I was taught to love your neighbor as you love yourself,” 

Not only do these people have no love for others they certainly don’t have it for themselves. They can only hate and that includes themselves. >

The only toxin worse than politics is religion, your god is a shithead if you think he wants you to treat others like shit. >

The librarian is awesome. Conservative Christian dipshits, not so awesome >

Tax the church in that community >

Honestly this is what everyone needs to start doing, we can't just stand by quietly while these crazies mouth off! You must stand up and fight back against hatred and bigotry. Or it will just take over. I'm so proud of her for speaking out! >

If you don’t like certain books in your library then don’t check them out. Why is this hard? >

They need to keep people stupid. Smart people won’t support their shit because it is so insane. >

Never seen in all my life people so proudly venerating one book, with questionable sources in terms of soundness (for those who read it as literal truth) while giving no other books the same treatment and even attacking them. What kind of logic runs through these people's brains? And I mean no offense to anyone except stupid people. I'm not anti-religion necessarily. Protesting books does not prove anyone is correct. It only shows that you fear greatly what those other books say. >

There is no hate greater than Christian love. >

I would do all I can to sue and prosecute anyone making threats and spreading lies as she and others have endured. The people who lie and threaten in no way follow Christian values or the bible. They are fake Christians hiding behind threats to others. >

I was like “damn look at libertarians getting positive news coverage” and then “oh wait” >

The American library is the only really free accommodation left in society. Shame on people who want to destroy it. >

When are the librarians, teachers, medical professionals, and scientists going to band together as one and stand up? If the Republican party is splitting into a whole new maga brand, can we get a spin-off party that is strong science, education, and facts? Not saying the Democrats are not, but somebody who won't back down and negotiate against facts. >

The American Caliphate strikes again! >

My heart goes out to this woman. I know what it is to be bullied. Besides being afraid of being physically hurt, it’s dehumanizing and humiliating. I hope she finds the strength to carry on despite all the hate she is enduring. The world needs librarians like her. >

The fucking conservatives are constantly yelling about suppressing speech and "1984", and this video is what 1984 actually looks like. All of that emotion, all of that resiliency in the face of a tyrannous mob, THAT is what Big Brother does to freedom. And anyone who has any sense of reality or self-awareness knows that the conservative right wing in the US is Big Brother. >

Christian try not to be a hypocrite for 5 minutes challenge (impossible) >

Now that’s my kinda Karen. You go girl! >

$24 a year tax on home owners to keep your local library afloat is too much? Selfish, arrogant, irrational jerks.
Meanwhile less than 100 LGBTQ themed books out of 60K+ is too many? The presence of the books themselves qualifies as "grooming" and "pedophila"??
Frankly, I am just so fucking tired of Conservatives. The violence, the stupidity, the selfishness, the childishness. Their whole culture is fucking trash. >

If they really wanted to go after pedophiles, they would go after the churches. >

I've been an active protestor for most of my adult life, but I never thought I'd ever find myself having to counter-protest at a frigging library.
Yet I did, a few months ago.  A bunch of far-right protestors from some conservative areas of England travelled all the way to Wales to protest outside of and try to prevent entry to my local library while a drag queen story event took place inside.
It took only a fraction of the present LGBTQ+ community and its supporting protestors to clear a path past the regressive conservative fascists, and though I regret its necessity, I'll never forget the strange and wonderful sight of seeing LGBTQ+ supporters, antifa, and frigging librarians standing together against those who'd see us driven back into the dark ages.
I'm very happy to see librarians stand up like this.  It's sad that they have to (surely there's been some dystopian writing about this!?) but it's heartwarming to see them stalwartly defending knowledge and learning for the public good even when the pitchforks and torches are coming for them. >

I used to work at a public library years back, and I can tell you these people aren't paid enough to deal with any of this. When I was there, librarians made about $35k a year and had to have a Master's degree in Library science. And aside from the director, these were the highest paid prestigious positions.
Then, I got to see how the public treated them. They spend half their time dealing with homeless people trying to look at porn on the Internet, and the other half catering to creepy male customers trying to hit on them and asking them a million stupid questions to waste their time. We had one religious guy that called every single day and demanded the staff read them segments from the Bible in the guise they couldn't read themselves. The director allowed that crap to happen.
So yeah. Librarians shouldn't have to deal with this at all. >

God bless her. Like her I’m sick of the low intelligence MAGA crowd. >

Conservative Christians: send endless threats to a library that's trying to be inclusive
Also Conservative Christians: They are making up those threats.... stupid pedos