S11 E10: Libraries, Campus Protests & Gaza: 5/5/24: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- John Oliver details the response to the past week’s campus protests, offers a reminder on what those protests are about, and explains why public libraries are under attack.
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Allowing librarians to be arrested for what books are on their shelves is straight out of the fascist playbook. Our librarians deserve nothing but the utmost respect; this is so tragic what’s being done to them.
As someone who spent almost half of my childhood in the local small library, I can say that librarians are the unsung heroes in a community. Are they doing heroic acts and saving people from fires? Of course not. But they are giving tons of people support, understanding, help in everyday problems, and can give them something to enjoy and feel happy about.
I mean, a good example being that I was really into fantasy, roleplaying and learning history back as a kid. Librarians knew this, because I basically got to a point of asking them if there were any more books in the youngsters section for the subject because I had read them all and would want more. One day they spotted me in library, and actually asked me if I'd want to have a book. It was the original finnish translation for "Middle-Earth Roleplaying Game". They had to remove it from the shelf because someone had decided to rip the cover off and scatter the pages, and they didn't have even hope of fixing it. But instead of throwing it to trash, they wanted to give the pile to me because I might actually use it. Keeping in mind, back then those books over here in Finland cost something comparable to 80$ in modern money because they were rare and hard to find most of the time.
They wanted to give the book to someone who enjoys it, for sake of enjoying it, and actually remembered the quiet kid who'd just come in and borrow lot of random books on fantasy and stuff. Still brings tear to my eye.
I mean, yeah; it's not even new. History literally tells us this going back to like Socrates. "People who attack access to information, education, scientific reason, free press, and the concept of evidence" tend to historically be the same ones as the "people who spend their whole lives trying much harder to signal to their community what a good person they like to appear as, typically by that community's standards, than they do trying to actually be a good person." Nearly always in a way that's extremely transparent to anyone with the will to use more than two functioning neurons, which unfortunately is not much of any given community. See the fucking phony at 23:20 in John's episode for example. And together with a general hatred and persecution of people who don't fit their narrow mold, people fitting both of the above are literally what's led to every single oppressive society in the past century if not more, explicitly including fascism itself.
It is LITERALLY a thing the nazis did in Germany in the 1930's.
One who is advocating it probably don't read themselves... or not anymore😅
I think it's actually a episode of the twilight zone
I come from a poor country that has no infrastructure or funding for any public library, and we envy having public libraries that are filled with knowledge and amenities that help the people...and these guys want to close them. What a world we live in.
I don’t understand when people say that they’re from a country… They never mention what country, which would be helpful
@@darkprince56 Philippines
Exactly! The west (especially Americans) find the most useless things to protest against
Totoo! 😓
@@ronaldtrinidad3270 thanks
I’m a library director and this was spot on. “It’s Perfectly Normal” was my most challenged book last year. I had a guy preach to me for an hour for having books about astrology and tarot cards on display for Halloween… When I started reciting memory verses and retelling core biblical allegories I think his head exploded. We purchase materials for everyone, including those with different opinions, lifestyles, and ideology from ourselves. If you don’t want to read it, don’t check it out. I purchased a few anti-LGBT books we received in a “Suggest a Purchase” form. I’m not going to read them and I’m happy to report nobody has checked them out in the 10ish months they’ve been on the shelf but they’re there. That’s intellectual freedom.
American "freedom of speech" only reaches as far as their own freedom goes.
To noone’s suprise, conservatives who vehemently suggest anti-lgbt books to libraries actually don’t read. Like ever.
You are telling me bigots don't read? Colour me surprised.
I am curious: what is the line you draw when deciding which books can be purchased and which not? Would you place a disclaimer next to books that, say, have racist viewpoints or that are full of deliberately false information?
More people need to read this comment
Libraries are places where someone like me - an introvert whose family had no computer and Internet connection - thrive and continue to thrive. When books begin to vanish, services begin to disappear, and libraries begin to close, that is when the local communities begin to lose inevitably.
Will you fight for it? That is the buttom line. Will we fight for what we want and need.
If you have no internet connection, how are you commenting online?
@@Zedetnik “had” is a past-tense word…
@@Zedetnik Some (many?) libraries do offer internet access as service (cheap or for free). So, maybe he is/was online from public library.
@@Zedetnik You've never been to a library, have you?
Watching the US from the outside feels like watching Germany in 1930.
But worse. At least the leader cared about workers and their rights 😂 we can thank that one for our 40-hour work week and bunch of benefits.
@@NameName-ll2yx What the hell are you talking about, he banned unions and put socialists in concentration camps.
@@NameName-ll2yx that's a bs myth, created by American capitalists to demonize unions and worker's rights.
Naxis was never a worker's rights party, they lured in workers to recruit them for Canon fodder.
Very much so. It's not even exaggerated from what I can see from Scandinavia.
What's happening to you guys
Is step by step, exactly what happened in Germany back then.
considering minority rights, misogyny, book bans, cops killing and 'disappearing' protesters, scary violent president, School boards and libraries getting overtaken or shut down, Jan 6th, Charlottesville, BLM getting shut down by state violence again and again, even the RUclips propagandists like Shapiro and Peterson are like carbon copies of the fascists from back then.
It's terrifying.
My grandfather was a communist and freedom fighter during WW2 and he always said: "it's not over, it'll never be over" and even before he died, which was many years ago, he warned us about this.
He saw it coming.
That man suffered from ptsd his whole life, for what he went through.
So did my dad and so do I.
War doesn't leave when it's over, it stays in generations.
And this is why it's a very personal issue to me.
I've been involved in anti-naxi work since I was a child.
They never really went away.
Sorry I got into a rant there.
But I'm very scared for the US and then for all of us.
Coz y'all never keep the bombs to yourselves.
And fascism spreads like Chlamydia.
@@NameName-ll2yx You need to read up on history. The NSDAP restricted rights little by little of the workers and demanded that the children should attend their "clubs". Those that didn't were bullied or frozen out.
I'm Belgian and in our libraries everything is just open for everyone. Then I moved to South Korea. And there too, everything is open to anyone. And Korea is much more conservative as Belgium. Yet , you will find your books. The only book I know that is banned and illegal in libraries in Belgium, is mein Kampf. Form an Austrian painter turned German dictator
Is it really? Cause I live in Belgium and i'm pretty sure I've seen it in the library (my favourite place on earth)
So not entirely free then.
Libraries are important and they must be protected at all costs.
Do we need to show them the story of Ohara to make them understand? :P
@@rice5817 No, the only response you will get is burn the story of Ohara too.
I'm not too worried. I'm 35 years old, and I remember people talking about libraries "dying" when I was 5. Yet, here they are still, they have changed and adapted over time, but they are still here, and probably always will be - because for all the talk about how nobody uses libraries anymore, most people do actually seem to agree that they should be preserved.
Besides, if libraries cannot survive after all, that just means they evidently weren't as important as we all assumed. Though I doubt that will happen.
@LadyDoomsinger The issue is that before people believed libraries would fade away. They have been relevant, and they will continue being relevant as long as books exist. The current issue is that libraries are under attack for having some books, which some people don't want to be there.
@@forgiveman That isn't a new thing either. It'll pass, like it always does.
I live in Chile, far from a developed or fancy country, yet It amazes me how stupid things get in the USA
Yea. I'm from the Philippines, we're dying of heat and hunger here but their problems with conservatives? Whoa we sympathize
I'm a US citizen retiree living in Brazil - how ignorant and "third world" United States is becoming! Cringey and so sad! :(
Salú, compadre. 🍷😁
"mira esa w e a, hermano" la mitad del video
Land of the free? Most democratic country on planet... What a joke.
I have a sneaking suspicion that the adults not comprehending that there are different sections for different age groups in the library are part of the 40% that read at a 5th grade level
What you _should_ have a sneaking suspicion about is that the adults don't really care whether there are different sections for different age groups in the library or not, because what they are actually doing while you're arguing with the red herring they nonchalantly waved in your face knowing fully well that you'd take the bait and get distracted is waging a war on knowledge, progressive values, and anything politically left of Sauron.
TBH, I can't believe John missed the opportunity to point out that "BL" is short for "Boy Love", a genre of comic books, animations, novels, and live action movies that is popular across Asia.
kinda gay
Sounds like peedo 💩
@@cl8804 cus it is
Came here to say the same thing 😂
As a librarian, I think it's important to remember that we are there to protect your right to democracy and free access to information and that's why librarians decide what belongs in the library and what doesn't, no one else. If your libraries are not governed at arms length, you no longer have democracy - it really is that black and white. We study years to learn how to keep these boundaries in check for you sake - and not based on our opinions but on actual research - and if you close the library, we can get a job elsewhere - but even if you have a room of books, it won't be a library unless you have some qualified running it, and once they move, they move. The person you are screwing over when you're either trying to "run the library" without qualifications or not protecting your libraries from this bs, is you. We can find jobs elsewhere - you'll be living in V for Vendetta. And if you close a library due to budget cuts because you are "making a statement", there's a chance that you'll open the room of books up again, but the librarian will be gone. I don't know how it is in the US, but in Sweden, the deficit in number of librarians at the moment is around 2000 and it's going to get worse. So if you want a library, and the democracy and access to free, unbiased information with information support that you can book for free, then maybe you should be motivating your librarians to stay even when things aren't so fucked up that you are actually allowing your lawmakers to put them in jail for protecting vulnerable people, and for protecting you.
it not demoracy, durn b1sh; it republiqué
Interesting that you mention Sweden. Have you seen similar efforts to ban or challenge books in the country?
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10:47 the pet rock bit is just golden. the moment of silence from the other hosts not reacting to him speaking it as if they were jokes that fell flat before continuing saying he was too poor to get one was just hilarious lmao
You know, sometimes I hate some aspects of the culture of my country. And then I see content showing American conservatives, and I'm glad I don't live there.
The issue is that usa seems to have some measure. In other countries people like trump prey on the need for work and they never have oposition because their institutions are weak.
Lately liberals became just as scary. And unfortunately both ideologies are spreading through the world, we aren't safe either.
@@trowawayaccpeople who have not been to actual first world countries always think “if America is bad, elsewhere must be worse”, sorry (not really) to burst your bubble, no, that’s not the case, no first world country have people that retarded to defund libraries and think there are phonographic books advocated by politicians to teach against Christian values. Most poeople in actual first world countries possess and exercise common sense are able to tell right deform wrong and differentiate between facts and fiction.
American Left equally annoying but in a different way. Inescapable.
He is cherry picking less offensive books to show that Conservatives are censoring all the left wing content. But do check may books which are straight up LGBTQ propaganda and soft porn aimed at sexualizing kids. Why not talk about that?
P.S. - I too don't live in America and I hate many things conservatives do (guns and all). But this child grooming thing by the LEFT is a real thing.
Leave it to the US to make libraries a political target. It's amazing how annoying & stupid the US can get
Wherever there's MAGA, there's a surplus of shrunken brains.
Big parts of USA society has been raisen in isolationist spirit, which denies new ideas. Paradoxically but that is true.
Is
Americans are cool. US citizens are the rotten part of the internet.... the globe, actually .
USA's always been like this. It's a corrupt 💩🕳 country.
When I was a child (around 20 years old), I foolishly decided I wanted to be a librarian because I wanted an easy job. I thought being a librarian is like being a book store owner only I don't have to worry about about sales and profits. Librarians are _scholars._ You can work in a library without a library degree (which in most countries is a Master's) as a library technician, but you can't be a _librarian_ without having added to scholarship as a whole. I barely passed my fuck-all degree as it is, I wasn't going back to school for more. So I tip my hat with utmost respect to our librarians and librarian techs and the rest of their staff and to any one who attacks them, get edited.
Me: "Hey US, how Orwellian have you become today?"
US: *campaiging to ban books by people who haven't read them and threatening librarians*
Me: "Jesus Christ..."
Ironic really. These protesters should read a dam book
@@ayszhang The problem is, they have only read one book...
Jesus Christ: "Hey, don't blame me, I never told them to do this crap."
The Devil: "Wasn't me either."
God: "I have no idea what those a-holes are blathering about. Hey, should I wipe out Salt Lake City? I'm feeling a bit Old Testament lately."
@@ayszhang Actually I think that's part of the problem. I think some of them DID read the book and then said "You know what? This sounds like a jolly good idea" And treated it as a "how to" book instead.
Fahrenheit 451 immediately came to my mind. I mean, banning books, threatening people defending books, all while not knowing what the book is about...
This quote from Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri (1999!) feels more relevant than ever: "As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."
On point.
The "1999" is what fucking gets me. This problem is OLD. The gay paranoia started in the fucking 60s or 70s! It hit its stride in the 80s and 90s with the whole AIDS epidemic. We are in the MID TWENTY TWENTIES. It's been HALF A CENTURY. And people are still at it. Still at it.
My heart is more comfortable seeing Alpha Centauri mentioned, thank you.
That game was so fucking good. Pure crack in digitized form.
I wonder who it actually is who has the biggest qualms against free flow of information, hmmmm
"If your child is alone in the children section, he probably has a phone. In which case, my library is the least of your problems"
I literally shouted "pow !"
That's a pretty senseless comparison. Everyone can tell that the Internet is full of stupid people doing stupid things (like you right now) whereas libraries are supposed to be where you get proper knowledge.
@@lunazero433 No, the comparison is how one accesses information. If kids have a smartphone and can use the internet, they can see ANYTHING THEY WANT. Libraries offer any book that patrons request. That’s what libraries do - if they don’t have a book, you can request it and it will be available to you. Go ask a real librarian how it works. They are tax-funded public spaces open to everyone, equipped with books, computers, etc. and curated by librarians who know their patrons and their needs.
@@lunazero433 a library is basically a collection of books. It's "supposed" to be a place with books with "proper knowledge" or not. A lot of the books are fiction. You can gain different things from them, like empathy, different perspectives, but I don't know if that's in your definition of "proper knowledge". There are specific libraries for that, like medical libraries, or sections. But sure, parts of the children section, which a lot of this was about, can fall under that. Children can learn about numbers, colors - and the body
I'm in a time zone where this youtube show hits at lunch hours. Monday is now one of my favorite weekdays.
mine too im from Kosovo Europe
welcome to the club! 😂
*God, The Rod, and Your Child’s Bod* perfectly encapsulates why people are leaving the church in droves.
Go away Illuminati
@@stellviahohenheim uh what...
@@adamdaniel8909 angry god, punishment rod, pedos on your child's bod haha
Beside promoting bullshit.
Well they're just reconfiguring their ideology into right wing politics. The churches lost the majority of its people to Fox and Trump. Churches aren't thinning because people are getting smarter or developed more empathy or humaneness.
Having this on RUclips is just too good to be true. ❤
I not always agree with him but I do admire and respect the work John Oliver and his team do!
agreed.. to the whole back of the house crew.. Ur decision to put this in youtube has help to change the world
@@maxheadrom3088and that's A LOT. The time it takes to fact check everything... 😬😑
They are extremely careful to not spread any false stories.. thats more than you can say about literally anyone else.
LWT does more of a proper journalistic work than your local news channels do..
just like this entire show..
@@gg31hh ended, I used to respect his opinions and him as a person, but seeing how he gaslighting the very real antisemitism problem on those campuses, the harassment of Jewish students, the death chants , like is something very rare and unimportant! I’m not even Jewish and I still saw hundreds of incidents of bullying Jewish students on social media , even violence against them and intimidation! I will never listen to his show again or anything he has to say! Shameful!
as someone watching this from europe, jesus fucking christ this is just 30's germany and its not even subtle
Sitting in Denmark, named after a resistance fighter, worried as well.
they're not even neo- anymore.
as someone else from europe, rofl
The future of American libraries: "Hello, I would like to check out this stuffed cheetah and this gun. Also, do you have any books in this library?"
John Oliver making the show fully available online, and Jon Stewart returning to The Daily Show are just the moves we need to get everyone to listen...
Sadly, thanks to how internet works, I don't think people who actually need to listen will ever come here...
@@sophie-annew7743 It's hard, when these episodes aren't available in the US. I had to use a VPN to get here. 😂
@@sophie-annew7743 It doesn't help that many of these episodes are being blocked here in the US.
thank you HBO and LWT for making important information free to the public
“Where one burns books, there one eventually burns people.”
― Heinrich Heine
Using the law to burn books and by extension, using the threat of jail to burn people!! How long before actual fire is used to burn both?
All that delightful moment at 27:39 tells me is John Kennedy has never stepped inside a library in his entire life. And that his interns are laughing their asses off after they gave him that passage to read on a dare.
Yep----that ol' Senate dog Kernel Korn-pone Kennedy does not naturally speak with a Southern accent. He completely adopted it to sound more down-home while he peddles his hideous and stupid views.
I’m British, and looking at America a lot of the time it looks like the taliban are there
Exactly….christian taliban,that is!
yall are not much better.
@@SD-zz4ovWell….but we are!
If your 5 year old child is hanging out in tbe adult section of the library… that’s on you, parent. Be a better parent and watch your kids!🤨
Yyyeah, if you've got 5 minutes to spare, I'd recommend you to look up Ethan Grey's "The Message of the Republican Party: Don’t Tread on Me. I Tread on You." It should help elucidate what their issue is with that argument. (Hint: It's about anyone getting to tell them what to do to be a better parent. They think only they should be allowed to do that.)
It's ironic that the country that desperately needs access to knowledge is also the one where people seem to be determined to remain ignorant.
I had "the talk" with my two when they turned 12. Since it's really uncomfortable for my wife to talk to them about it, especially my daughter, I did it and gave them important guidelines on the matter. After I was done my wife asked how it went, to which I told her:
"Take a notebook and a pen and go to them for extended instructions.".
Children today have access to all information via the Internet, so the discussion was more about correcting "bad" things that are shown on the Internet as socially acceptable behavior in the hookup culture.
Oh, you are so necessary to the conversation! May this show endure and may all America watch it.
It was censored here in the US. The video is literally blocked here - you can't find it if you search for it, and if you do get the link it will not play (or show the comments) unless you are using a VPN.
More people need to be spreading the word. The reupload of this that is available to us cuts out any mention of the protests.
@@emlmm88 Unbelievable ! Here too (I'm in France), the protests are being downplayed, and violently put down. But we do get this whole video!
@@juliettebouchery3550 I'm Jewish and most of my friends who were taking part in the protests along with me are Jewish as well, and yet not a single one of us has been covered by the media here.
It is not "the Jewish community" which was in favor of this crackdown; it was the state. Almost all the Jews I know here in Colorado are pro-Palestine and anti-Zionist.
I live in the Netherlands, and that exact same chain and bikelock combos are sold here as the "Amsterdam Fogheddaboudit" or the "Utrecht Donworryboudit" lock.
For what it's worth, if you want to keep all books that refer to sex and violence out of children's hands, the Bible is certainly on the chopping block. I can't begin to even summarise the amount of sex, slavery, adultery, references to homosexuality and various forms of extreme violence in that book. Aw, snap. Five minutes on, and he summarises it. :)
There was an episode on this happening to school libraries and in there there was a reference that a library tried that, and then in a comment it said it had failed (cant remember why)
Where did you see the sex in the bible ? What the hell u talking about
It starts with the Virgin Mary. If your kid asked you what does it mean then you have to talk about sex. Then there is Abraham’s son Ishmael whose birth is the result of repeated rape, just to start…
@@albanianstylekristo4175Wait till you read about what happened to Lot's daughters mate...
"...that is why you go into the clergy!"
Wow, shots fired. 😅
I agree with that but at the same time a friend of mine works there at what basically is religious internal affairs and believe me, they are under more strict vigilancy.
Suffice to say that, after everything that came to light in the late 90's, they better run a tight ship on internal affairs. Unpopular wasn't fully describing it.
Congrats on 300 episodes! 🥳🎉👏🏻 Here's to the next 300! 🥂👀
John trying to gaslight me about The Berensteam Cheetahs was the best start to the week.
That mom discussing "Let’s Talk About It" looked like she'd seen a murder scene. I'm impressed she managed to have a child or did she just pass out when she saw her husband for the first time?
"That is why you go into clergy." Ooooh vicious! *chef's kiss*
Sometimes i think people where im from are idiots, then i remember Americans exist. Damn yow
Libraries: The Handmaid's tale comes to mind.
Also: I'm a librarian and our University books used to come from the USA. It was a dream system and everything. Now 20 years later, look at this! Poor US is beyond lost in itself.
Thank you for your support for these students, and your continued coverage of the situation in Gaza.
They paid for that $214 book just for a 5 second joke, LOL.
Either that, or they printed the cover and wrapped it around any old book 😂 It wouldn't be that difficult to make it work for that 5 seconds joke
I mean, that's a very low cost on this show for a 15 second joke. Even if the joke later becomes a reoccurring one. Wax presidents, for example? Or the Rat Painting? Or *publishing a friggin' book*? xD xD
most reasonable pricing for a LWT bit lmao
Maybe they simply borrowed that from the library...
I mean they brought a guy from Azerbaijan for a joke and photos.
“Are you gonna resist arrest?” “Uh… no?” Lmao
6:13 To be fair, the cop's phone flashlight might have run out of battery since he used the phone to scroll on duty.
It is totally sick that a country will take a book out of the hand of a person and replace it with a gun… totally mad
1:45 Ilgar Pashayev, once again proving that he is the Meryl Streep of stock photos
Was looking for this comment.
One of Japan's most popular series for children is called "Oshiri Tantei," a series about a detective with a butt for a head. And, yes, you can guess how they show him sneezing. That's not counting the number of times Crayon Shin-chan shows his butt for a joke. I'm just saying, America, you're making friggin JAPAN look less uptight.
fair point but i won't use japan as an example of moral integrity
I don't know in what context you'd call Japan "uptight". But in any case, in terms of what's allowed in books and on TV, I'll bet there are parts of Europe that make *everyone* else look a bit uptight. More power to 'em!
@@TttTtt-zo7kt In any context that isn't art or literature, Japan is extremely uptight.
On the other hand you're also the country where a shonen protagonist and his GF will share a hug in their last big scene in the final episode.Because a kiss would be way to scandalous.
Hello from Denmark.
In our public libraries, you can find children's books with the character John Dillermand - I think he was featured in LWT at one point.
The biggest hit right now is a large children's book entitled "Bare numser" (Naked Butts) which is about a trip to the swimming pool and is full of drawings of half- and fully-naked adults with normal, non-ideal bodies.
Missed this show a little too much while John was gone. Grabbing my snacks!
Thank you for talking about protests and gaza ❤
👏👏👏 john you are a noble person with heart and ethics 🥺❤👏
Ilgar still shining for his variety in the graphics for this show 😂
Omg, thank you so much for helping my goldfish brain to remember why that guy (whos kids no longer speak to him 🤭) looked so familiar!
@@adrianaheiler9794what 😢why don't they speak to him anymore?
@@Samson16436 oh no, I don't mean Ilgar as a person, but the headline/comment John made about the character Ilgar was supposed to portray in that stock photo! 😱 Didn't want to scare you, so sorry!
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is essentiallly what is happening here.
So much of this is why I'm currently studying to become a librarian! Information needs to be freely accessible to anyone, at any time, and anything less than that is dooming mankind to be repeating history ad infinitum. And to be honest I don't think anyone, regardless of where they place themselves on the political spectrum, can disagree with that while still being true to themselves.
Contrast the reactions from western governments and western media on hong kong protestors occupying university campuses in 2019.
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, is happy.
this!♥
That clurgy zinger is THE BOMB. 😂😂
31:30 You can hear the vocal processing on the "kid", gotta love that.
The history of protests is it's often demonized when it's taking place while it will be viewed more positively with hindsight and nostalgia. MLK may be universally revered now, and the anti-Vietnam war protesters are now seen as courageous, but it wasn't so back then. These students will be vindicated.
No, no they wont. Its blm 2.0.
Unless islam rules over in 100years (which it will); then of course :))
Yep just like the Ivy league protestors of the late 30s right?
remember Mandela was designated as a terrorist until 2008 by the US. And MLK has been completely whitewashed to the point where you say his name in order to end a discussion about racism since we're suppose to find a "colourblind" solution to systemic racism
People in colleges also protested for Khmer rogue. I am quite anti Israeli government but seeing the level of manufactured propaganda eaten by some if not most of these protesters is saddening
nah man, when they call to kick jews out, not let them into the school , and sout a 2 state solution that palestine themselves rejected in the past on the grounds that it didnt include the destruction of israel (they were offered all the land in the 1948 plan and they said no, despite that being the only land they were kicked out of, due to a war they started and lost) then they will eb rememebred like the pro nazi protests. not all protests are remembered fondly. if they dont like the governemnt, protests in front of the embassy. doing it in the school only hurts the students, and helps no one (i should know, ive been in gaza)
the irony is that the internet is choke full of content far worse than any public library can offer. any kid with a keyboard can get access to "objectionable" material. arresting librarians is like closing the stable door after the horse has escaped. it is better to educate kids to tell between good and bad in a socially constructive way
The point isn't really to shield children from that kinda content tho. The point is to undermine and ban access to knowledge and progressive values. A few years back I read about a 10-year-old girl who was visiting her local library with her mother. While searching the shelves, she picked up the book "It's Perfectly Normal" by Robie H. Harris and Michael Emberly. The book is about sex education and is one of the most banned books of the past two decades. The little girl took it home. Later that day, the little girl showed her mom the chapter on sexual abuse and said, "This is me." Her father was abusing her, and it was the first time she'd spoken about it. The father was convicted.
In an interview, the author, Robie H. Harris, said, "I have been called a pornographer, a child abuser -- every name in the book, as the saying goes. But whenever I am called those names, I think of that ten-year-old girl. I wish we never had to talk with kids about any of these aberrant behaviours. But we have to do so because they already know about them to some extent and because kids have a right to have the accurate information that can keep them healthy and safe. They need to know how to get help and make the abusive behaviour stop."
When right-wing and conservative groups petition and protest to get sex education books off the shelves of schools and public libraries, or stir up moral panics about "woke" TV shows and similar stuff, what they're actually doing is stopping the most vulnerable people from accessing the language, knowledge, and tools that can help them. It communicates to children suffering from abuse that they are shameful and that it's not safe or polite to speak out about it, and it helps to shield and hide abusers. This is not a coincidence, it's the point: "Protect children from the woke left" is mostly about the real criminals trying to protect themselves from the law.
Sex ed. books and "woke" entertainment is what protects children. And those who try to withhold that protection from the children should, no matter how they try to justify it, always be regarded with suspicion and caution.
It always jumps out at me the hypocrisy in these protests. 1st amendment that is for me not for you.
Where I grew up there were 5 different children's sections (6 if you include the stuff for new parents) up to 4, 4 to 8, 8 to 12, 12 to 16, and young adult, as they and my local education board understood that what a child needs and what a child should be allowed access to changes as the child changes. The things as a parent you do with a 5 year old is wildly different from a 9 year old. It was split along the same lines as kindergarten, first school, middle school, high school, college. We split these systems for reasons. And books and other things should be also. But they should not be removed "just because"
Yes there is material that clearly should not be accessible to anyone, "Spare" by Harry springs to mind.
What many many people seem to forget to get a job in a library you are not some stay at home mum who wants a part time job. For government work you will at minimum have a Bachelor of Science in Library Science, or Information Science, but many if not most have A Master's Degree in library science (MLS), preferably from an American Library Association (ALA).
In New York, NYSED requires certified librarians to hold a Master's degree in Library Science. A Masters... That means at the very least they have 5 years of Education at degree level or higher in Libraries and how to run them how to manage them... And these specialists (which is what they are) are being attacked by people who are NOT qualified. And being managed by people who are equally not qualified.
It's not really "hypocrisy" when their outright stated position is "that's for me, not you" tho -- at that point, it's just plain discriminatory political agendas... If you've got 5 minutes to spare, I'd really recommend you to look up Ethan Grey's "The Message of the Republican Party: Don’t Tread on Me. I Tread on You."
“When the Nazis came for the communists, I said nothing, I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats, I said nothing, I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the unionists, I said nothing, I was not a unionist.
When they came for me, there was no one left to protest. » Martin Niemoller.
Being against the massacre of a population by a far-right government is NOT being anti-Semitic.
No sound of boots marching in step without the knowing and muffled silence of millions of slipper wearers.
@@simonlevy00 when whataboutism justifies massacres!
Of course there will always be some worst thing to have happened - does that justify being quiet about it?
The reason for such protests taking place in the US is because the US is supplying the weapons that help carry out a genocide. Same reason why vietnam war was protested against - because the governement of the country where the protests are taking place was taking part in it.
But supporting Hamas is anti-semitic. Because it means destruction of Israel, as stated in Hamas charter. And a lot of of students did precisely that.
@@simonlevy00Violence does not justify violence. Anti-semitism does not justify the murder of 20,000+ children in less than a year.
These types think that they get free card to kill everyone under the pretence of antisemitism. They ve been like this for decades. Only support their"own",like a cult or a mafia. @@Sam-Cain
Thanks LWT for blessing us all. I'm forever grateful.
Congrats for US to turn into 1800s 😂😂
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Thank You for giving us authentic news with the humor it deserves.
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20:47 For the uninitiated, BL is also short form for Boy Love, aka yaoi
And the the uninitiated would totally understand a japanese word/genre name XD
Libraries serve as a repository of knowledge for the free exchange of ideas, which is essential to democracy. Curtailing them under the guise of moral policing is tantamount to censorship.
Happy 300th episode LWT.
what? censorship on america? the land of freedom?, don't be silly
That is precisely why the libraries are attacked. The fundamental christians don't want democracy, they are so afraid that reality challenges their dumb believes that their solution is to force everyone else to the same delusions.
Just say it outright instead of beating around the bush: Curtailing them under the guise of moral policing is a way to subvert democracy by waging a war on knowledge, progressive values, and the political left as a whole.
31:25 ~ The ad from the conservative candidates where a "child" talks about how the library had a "funny lady" read an age-inappropriate book? That "child" voice is an option right out of Voicemod's default voice filters. There's adults pretending to be kids, just like when they give you these "my kid just said the most amazing thing" fake stories.
It was incredibly jarring. You could hear the distortion clearly.
And what parent doesn't start laughing uncontrollably when their kid asks what anal-sex is?
If a person or group tries that in Scandinavia they get laughed out of the library. I know because a group of muslim in Denmark tried that ten years ago.
It just shows that religious fundamentalists are the same everywhere no matter what religion they claim to protect
yeah, cause all our religious nutheads "fled" to the US 100-200 years ago
Uuuh-huh. You know, I cannot help but feel like this take of yours would sound a whole lot better if you people had done something, _anything_ about the Quran burnings you've been tolerating lately.
@@GrahamChapman if it helps in denmark, the Quran burning guys parti got 63.537 votes. or about 1,8 procent of the vote. its a small group making alot of noise
@@GrahamChapman Well, it's a one-man show. I will try to give you summery.
Some years ago a guy founded a political party, which he is the only member of. Then he toured neighbourhoods, which have overwhelmingly muslim population, and shouts propaganda against muslims. The police had to protect him because he had declared a demonstration.
This went on about a year then the authorities were sick and tired of him, he disturbed the order naturally, so he was forbidden to demonstrate because the police couldn't protect him in the long run. About ten or twenty police officers had to be protect him on his "demonstrations". They had the things to do.
Then he decided a couple of years ago to burn qurans because he had been out of the limelight. Great! Then he was told to stop doing that. Okay, so he moved to Sweden and became a Swedish citizen. Then he begin burning qurans over there.
Now some other persons have taken up the burning thing. Great! Now we have a international incident. Because of one man!
If the muslims were more quiet about it it would be a non-thing but they are very loud about it, but so are everybody in the Middle East. I have known fair number of christians from the Syria, Iraq and Lebanon and they are equally loud when it comes to religion.
I wish I could upvote this video 100 times
just came back from beautiful Prague and in one museum there was a wall of USA banned books, People shaking their heads and asking me really? Alice Walker as an example
Leave it to religion to destroy good things.
It's not really "religion" so much as it is "the right" tho... The two often walk hand-in-hand, but it's not really because the right believe in religion; it's more-so because the right loves power, and religion gives it to them... If we one day collectively told them "IDGAF how 21st century preachers interpret how a 17th century king commanded his scribes to rewrite a 4th century scripture about how a 1st century carpenter said we should live, you're not sticking _any_ of that into our society" then they would abandon religion for something else that would let them do so instead.
Eric Adams not fathoming that organized protests are organised is so on par with his personality.
look at who organized them, and what speech he made on oct 8. it says it all.
@@simonlevy00Doesn’t matter even if true..the protests are legitimate and morally justified unlike israeli onslaght against civilian population
@@martinzurko2762 againn look Into it, you'll see what they actually protest about. If it was for peace there would be some blame at Hamas, some blame at Assad for killing 500k a year, there would be blame on other parties. Blaming only Israel, is hypocritical. Claiming colonialism is hypocritical (especially by Americans). When terrorists help organise protests, they aren't ok.
@@martinzurko2762 the ratio of civilians to non civilians is 1:1, better than every other urban combat ever (average 1:9) . Why do you assume every death is an innocent?
@@martinzurko2762 why do you assume every death is a civilian? Half aren't
How was a 65-years-old professor is seen as a threat? Because the pi-I mean, cops kept yelling "STOP RESISTING!" Don't you know that's police code for "I'm gonna mess you up now, sucka!", John? It's highly effective! 🙃
the professor who founded the spj made a speech on oct 8 (post attack on israel, before israel retaliated) praising the massacre by hamas. thats a threat to me. praising terrorist actions, as a university professor, is definetly a threat and should be illegal (it shows what they teach there, not surprising giving all the lobbying by qatar)
@@simonlevy00Another bibi bot found.
@@ErnestasMage I hate Bibi, I want him out. The protests are clearly more against Jews than Israel, despite claims, as shown by everything I have said. I protest, in Israel, to get Bibi out. I don't support my government, but the protests aren't actually about that, as shown. No not here man, someone who cares from truth, that's all.
@@ErnestasMage look up when genocide studies started in these school, and when watari money came in. Look at the lack of protests about clear genocide ( like Assad killing 500k in a year, or Rwanda killing 10k in a day) that shows it was never about peace. Look at the harassment Jews receive, being scared to go to school (if this happened to black for example, there would be opposing riots). Look at how there are more Jewish victims of hate crimes abroad than Arabs. The protests have a veneer of peace hiding the hate they are actually spouting.
@@ErnestasMage i protest againt bibi in israel. doesnt mean the protests arent antisemitic. just look at who founded sjp, who funds them, and what other things happened in unis since qatari lobbying.
Love you John for speaking out the truth against all the BS going on around us...!
camping supply conspiracy😂😂
And just who is this menace? How deep does the conspiracy go? Is Coleman even his real name?
I love how JO when covering the protests talks in the vaguest terms about 'some Jewish students' have reported feeling unsafe and scattered examples of antisemitic rhetoric while cushioning this by saying there are also 'some Jewish students' participating in and organising the protests. He didn't appear to be as circumvent about providing statistics and context for the main piece about libraries, so here are a few points that JO conveniently ignored:
1) The vast majority (by any recent polling data) of Jews in America interpret chants like 'from the river to the sea...' to be genocidal and threatening, as well as identify as Zionists. The vast majority also view these protests as antisemitic - evidenced by the counter-protests happening all around the country. It is not an equal split (as JO implied by using the same language) of Jews who support and oppose the protests, it's about 5% vs 95% respectively, which shows the strength of opinion on this - we didn't even see such splits in the Russian election when only Putin was on the ballot! So JO's framing of this is more than a little disingenuous, especially considering the rest of the statement.
2) If it were 'only' that Jews have reported feeling unsafe and scattered examples of antisemitic rhetoric, that would be one thing, but there have been widespread examples of Jews being physically assaulted, verbally assaulted with clearly antisemitic chants, prevented from entering campuses, libraries and classes ... and framing that as 'overwhelmingly peaceful' is just a flat out lie.
3) Regarding the evidence of outside influence - of course he focused on the outlandish statements, while conveniently ignoring more concerning statements by the NYCP about some of the fliers they found - instructing people on how to commit civil disobedience and resist arrest, to "disrupt/reclaim/destroy Zionist business interests", calling for the "death of Israeli real estate" (whatever that means) and America. Neither has he discussed (in relation to this) a very concerning factor - that Qatar is the biggest foreign donor to American universities. Qatar, who supports and shelters the Hamas leadership and just this week, had a senior official (at the Arab League) call for the destruction of Israel.
His aim here is clearly to legitimise these protests and ignore or minimise as much as possible how dangerous they are or could be.
Genocide is still bad, genius.
What do you expect from someone who repeatedly pretends to cite Al Jazeera for the death toll - while the source he was citing itself cited Hamas. No integrity.
@@SD-zz4ov genocide is bad, except in this case there is no genocide, genius.
That final line if the video almost killed me. Nailing home the point about taking things out of context.
i love John Oliver more and more. in an ideal world, schools have Last Week Tonight 2 hours a week in their curriculum to watch and discuss each episode.
Good for you John. You nailed it with reference to the Gaza and to the Students' humanism that will be remembered along with the infamous police raids
Best part about waking up on a monday morning
Thanks guys. Libraries in many places of USA are great. Now that I am back in my country I miss them. The librarians are helpful and needded. People do not be stupid. These places keep CHILDREN, young people, old people enjoying free time and LEARNING
Oh shoot, I love The Berenstain Boars!
I think we can all agree Frankie Muniz SHOULD return that Oscar.
Another winner. I’m so grateful for this show. ❤
As a Librarian I love this.
I really hope you guys make the protests be a main story sooner or later, they are too big and important to be delegated to side stories that the Americans won't get on RUclips
I thought about that too, I think it’s mainly because it’s a continuing story with lots of real time updates and no end in sight.
It's a continuos event that deserves coverage every week. But if it was the main story every week it wouldn't work for the program. This is the best way to cover it atm imo.
@@benjaminrose7867 It being continously brought up is great! The problem is that we only get to see these developments on YT because we are outside the US, the Americans who mainly see this show on YT are missing on these.
i really hope he talks about how the people organizing all this are funded by qatar, have openly praised hamas, and teach in the schools to hate israel. the qatari lobbying is strong, notice that genocide studies started only after qatar began to fund universities, for the sake of having israel in those studies, to normalize supposed israeli aggression (when every war israel had started by them attacking us first, including the 1948 one when israel was 10 hours old, and the attacked and lost) . they portest this as geno, and said nothign when assad killed 500k a in a year, or anythign about russia ukraine, or anything about rwanda killin 10k a day. hypocrisy is blatant here
What are you talking about, it's everywhere. Meanwhile, there is little coverage of the protests in Israel, or God forbid people protesting other countries, like in Georgia.
I am a high school teacher in Bangkok, Thailand. I strongly advise my students against choosing the US as a destination for their 10-month exchange program studies. It's a scary place.
My god, these people are messed up to target public libraries.
My dad once showed me an old blueprint call to ban sex ed in my home town in the 70's and replace it with "family ed" based on Christian values. This was in my then VERY religious home town and you know what the ruling parties did with that?
Ignored the craziness.
You know what I got my hands on at MY public library in that same religious town when I was 15 in the late 90's?
Oscar Moore's "A Matter of Life and Sex" from 1991 and honestly, I think I was one of few who even dared to bring it home and not just have a sneak peek by the shelf. I find it quite awesome how I was able to go straight from the church choir practice to reading about detailed gay sex without anyone trying to ban either.
America, please stop getting worse on purpose.
The kids are taking action.
As a jew myself and as someone who has been following this story for a long time, I'm sorry but I must strongly disagree with John on this. According to Hillel, there has been a 700% increase in antisemitic incidents on college campuses since October 7th. On May 3rd, that number was 1487. That is hardly "scattered". I'm not against a protest against Israel's actions (I have been protesting it myself for a long time) but many of the organizations that are leading these protests ARE openly supportive of Hamas (such as the SJP). Also you CAN be jewish & be antisemitic. Because ANY rhetoric that supports a one state solution that includes only Palestinians ("from the river to the sea") is antisemitic and also just insane. That is something that leaders in this so called "Pro Palestinian" organizations that are active in the protests in collage campuses have said. I do believe that many (if not most) people in these protests don't believe those ideas and genuinely want peace, but they are also not doing much if anything at all to adress antisemites or to condone these views.
I have a lot more to say on this topic, but the point is that it seems that John was painting a picture that was very biased when talking about this
What do you expect from someone who repeatedly pretends to cite Al Jazeera for the death toll - while the source he was citing itself cited Hamas. No integrity.
First intelligent comment I've seen on this comment section. I wholly agree, and while I would like if both sides could live next to each other in peace... I think we have enough evidence pointing out that's not gonna happen in the foreseeable future. World peace, at this stage, I think, is a pipe dream.
No wonder Brian works for Fox. He is deeply traumatized. Hahahaha
John: great journalism!!! You redeemed yourself!!!
THANK GOD YOU'RE BACK
The Flying Spaghetti Monster be praised!
Gotta appreciate John's intellectual honesty.
"berenstain" still kinda pisses me off to this day
That clergy joke at 15mins, 10/10 delivery
So happy to see Ilgar's stock photos being put into good use
Oliver is a real G. Never been on the wrong side even when his proposed solutions were inadequate.
What a fun way to showcase Shoah remembrance day
Tell that to Bibi
@@medealkemy why, is he aiming to ban German books?
My local library was in the news when Kirk Cameron and his posse were so disruptive they got our librarian fired for standing up for the fact that the library IS NOT A CHURCH 😣 it’s so embarrassing the way these people act. Libraries are as much a right as the freedom of speech, the right to vote, and the right to gather/protest. And all of those are being challenged in this bizarre timeline we’re in… it makes no sense but also does when you realize how afraid these people are of new ideas.
I hope they also ban every gun related book on libraries xD 😂😂😂 This clowns😂😂😂
I think I have to recommend you to look up Ethan Grey's the 5 minute read "The Message of the Republican Party: Don’t Tread on Me. I Tread on You." Quite frankly because you make it sound as if you still have no idea what's actually going on and what's actually at stake. >__>