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2022-08-05 -Great Cultural Revolution

Michigan township votes to defund library over LGBTQXYZ books

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Posted by Sniling Omelet8298 2022-08-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 That's the way it's done!

Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2022-08-05 07:19|| 2022-08-05 07:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Look. My degree is English Lit. I have spent a lot of time in libraries. Small community libraries are obsolete now, and if they are going to make grooming materials the hill they wish to die on, then die they must.

The money would be better spent on upgrading water lines and sewers.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-08-05 07:24|| 2022-08-05 07:24|| Front Page Top

#3 It's not a FREE speech 1st Amendment issue if its taxpayer funded. Somehow the usual suspects forget who works for who.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-08-05 07:26|| 2022-08-05 07:26|| Front Page Top

#4 When I moved from PeeAye, I had a whole spare bedroom with actual stacks in it. Several thousand books. I could not give them away to libraries let alone sell them. Nobody was interested. The libraries all said, "We don't have someone to take them in and evaluate them." In other words, they cried poor.

Don't tell me about the noble mission of the community library.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-08-05 07:41|| 2022-08-05 07:41|| Front Page Top

#5 The libraries all said, "We don't have someone to take them in and evaluate them."

The public libraries here happily accept donations — not to put on shelves but to sell at the twice yearly sale that is their major fundraiser. No evaluation required, and people come to buy bags of books at a dollar each, both the thousands donated and those books from library stocks that have become too worn to keep on the shelves.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-08-05 11:05|| 2022-08-05 11:05|| Front Page Top

#6 Well there you go. PeeAye is very damaged. Ohio is just barely better.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-08-05 11:18|| 2022-08-05 11:18|| Front Page Top

#7 My mother worked in a library for 30 years. The last librarian she worked for was against having books in the library as opposed to on-line research material. I don't think that librarian was a deep thinker.

Posted by Super Hose 2022-08-05 15:35|| 2022-08-05 15:35|| Front Page Top

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