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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
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.