Public Libraries Try To Stay Politically Neutral As Calls For Defunding, Censorship Increase
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- The number of challenges reported to the American Library Association in 2021 regarding funding and censorship at public libraries was more than double the annual average, a trend that is making its way into statehouses. NBC News' Julie Tsirkin visited Lawrence County, Kentucky to see how new state legislation could strip the library of reliable funding and resources for community members.
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This is going to take us back to the dark ages. Public Libraries need to be free of political pressure so they can continue to educate. Librarians are the greatest!
I wish they would tell us exactly what people complained about. Saying that challenges have increased doesn't really tell us anything.
The only way to do that is to privatize them. The moment we funded them with money stolen from the people, we gave up the right to polically neutral libraries.
There are things neither of us want to pay for.
That will always extend unto publicly funded buildings and organizations.
Plus, it would be 100x cheaper to just buy devises and provide internet to people.
@@springerworks002 If we privatized them kids would have to pay. No company is going to be running something with 0 profit. Corporations can not be trusted, they are not your savior. So, do you want to pay to have the fire department show up at your house? You have it all backwards anyway. Our taxes end up bailing out companies that pay little to no taxes. If the money is used for a library it is being used for the people.
@@springerworks002 Public libraries are not funded with stolen money. What are you even talking about?
That’s the thing tho.. libraries are EXTREMELY politicized with a more liberal agenda. That’s why we see people wanting to defund it. Look at the books in the video - all gender identity and LGBTQ books targeting KIDS. That’s why people are in an uproar. Libraries have gone radically liberal in rural places. It’s not a good fit.
As a librarian, this is so worrying. One of the IFLA conditions is that a library should be totally impartial, and do no censorship be it political, religious, etc... If we get to this, what will become of the education and rights of the people...
People use libraries for one of three things:
1. Shelter
2. Computer
3. Wi-Fi
There has to be some basic "censorship" in childrens' section in order to maintain a moral and decent society..you cannot just put whatever especially on display in kids' sections..that's just common sensex America hss never been different than this, you guys are the ones pushing the envelope with an onslaught of new questionable controversial material
@@janedoe3648 You just accused a librarian of pushing an agenda without verifiable proof. You have allowed the media to instill fear in your heart. It's pathetic.
So dumb. Next theyre gonna politicize my rear end, my lawnmower, my cat, and my iphone battery. For real
Rear ends and iPhone batteries are already politicized unfortunately
@@KTL5637 and also cats
The library was always my sanctuary. No one should control what another person reads.
That's literally in the ALA Bill of Patron Rights, as I recall. Your privacy is protected to a great degree and law enforcement would generally need a warrant or a court order from a judge to get private information otherwise
That is their aim - keep people from self educating and they can control the whole game.
Well said. This seems very controlling and political. With a covert agenda
Indeed. A strange and covert liberal agenda to pump ideologies and identity politics into children. So weird! Imagine being so bold to overstep such a boundary. What a loss we’re seeing with the dumbing down of our beautiful libraries !
Leave the libraries alone. Jeesh. Freedom people.Choice to learn read and educate yourself on available literature and knowledge. Absolutely absurd to politicize intellectual freedom.
If Libraries trying to teach kids to be inclusive makes you feel they are being political. Then maybe your politics is the problem!
"A great library contains the diary of the human race.--The great consulting room of a wise man is a library."
~ G. Dawson.
When do the witch trials start?
They already did.
I'm getting more of a Handmaid's Tale/Hunger Games vibe. Only women can make this right!
Future Grandson: "Grandpa.. tell me again why libraries were closed down?"
Me: "One time a library had a man wearing a dress named Peppermint Patty read green eggs and ham. The conservatives lost their minds."
And she will follow with:
Grandpa? Why on earth was a man in womanface to begin with? That's just as inappropriate as a white person doing blackface. It sounds like the libraries ended up sleeping in the beds they made by following their masters' commands. That's really too too bad. But I do love these private libraries a lot! They're awesome! I'm so glad we don't have those old creepy ones anymore :-)
(Kids of the future are amazingly smart!)
What is wrong the people of this country???
Puritan tradition.
We’ve entered the “Conservatives start burning books” chapter. Vote blue in November.
If conservatives were actually as bad as you pretend, you wouldn't be alive to make your claims.
I wonder what people complained about because they did not tell us in this video.
The same people who told you Jussie Smollett was a victim of a hate crime taught you to type out this nonsense.
@@DarkPassenger So conservatives don't want to tell anyone what to think? Are you serious?
@@DarkPassenger 🤣 might want to look at Tennessee, Texas, and Louisiana to validate what you just said. Books are now banned in some counties (public libraries) due to indecency.
More news that makes people around the globe glad they don't live in the U.S.A
This is big trouble and should be directly opposed by Americans to keep libraries out of the hands of judges.
Lawmakers will shut those libraries down in rural communities. Big trouble, fight this.
Keep libraries out of the hands of judges???? You think judges just walk around and pluck a library out of thin air to make a judicial decision on a whim? C'mon! Maybe you should have spent more time in a library reading about jurisprudence and the rule of law.
@@mikeywestside8509 We are not talking about law libraries which can be found in the NY Public Library or the law libraries in court houses; we are talking about libraries in small towns and mid-sized cities,---do you have a problem with that?
@@MrDXRamirez I know that we're not talking about law libraries and the sky is not falling so tone down your hysterics. There has to be a certain degree of censorship otherwise you would have drag queen story hour reading to your children about Karl Marx.
@@mikeywestside8509 Mark Twain would have called you a straight up A’Hole. I am serious, the greatest writer of political polemics this country ever produced was Mark Twain. Oh, you know him though Hollywood but not through his biography or writings. As for the other man; if not for his coverage of the American Civil War the New York Tribune would have literally zero readership,-- if not for Karl Marx.
If someone in drag read his articles on the American Civil War in America, your kids would know how their country was formed and where it is going.
Another man you know nothing about is William Hickling Prescott, who wrote the seminal work of complete and uncanny accuracy later confirmed by archeology of the history of the Conquest of Mexico from a Boston Library.
As a defender of jurisprudence I would say your opening argument is a flat dud. And why? Because you bring into it your contaminated and unoriginal views which lacks the luster of authenticity and the beauty of the English language. Lawyers pollute the English language said Shakespeare...you confirm it.
I refuse to even acknowledge this conversation ever happen...now begone!
They have Libraries in Kin-tuckee?
They're all picture books.
If a book offends, dont read it! Why is such a simple solution so difficult to comprehend?
All those guns and they're just a bunch of scared whiny cowards
Pretty much.
WHILE I WAS IN BRASIL, AN ANTI-AMERICAN WAS SAYING CRAP. I SAID THAT IN AMERICA WE HAVE PUBLIC LIBRARIES WHERE ANYONE COULD ENTER, LEARN ALMOST ANYTHING FOR FREE, LEARN NEW TRADES AND IMPROVE ONES SELF FREELY.
I FURTHER POINTED OUT THAT THE LIBRARY IN HIS TOWN ( MY NEW HOME FOR SEVERAL YEARS) HAD @ 50 BOOKS- 20 OF WHICH MY WIFE HAD DONATED!
WE CANNOT LOSE OUR LIBRARIES.
P.S. 2 OF MY SISTERS WERE LIBRARIANS.
Agreed. Love the library and it's availability of resources, knowledge and services.
Republicans do not like their sheep to be educated
You cannot be politically neutral. If you are for basic decency and civic values, then that necessitates taking a stand against the Republican Party.
you are 100% correct. They want an ignorant base that will listen to their propaganda, rewritten history and just accept it as fact.
LOL. Too funny and really unnecessary, but hey you are a goofball.
This is outrageous...
This is concerning to me. Can't ppl agree to disagree?
It's shocking someone would think it's okay to give this kind of regulatory executive power that involves a committee with any library, afaik, that includes members of the community, etc, now directed to a judiciary, which is like giving the ability to regulate an executive department of the government to the Supreme Court
Weird
fire the zealots now !
Fire the people who support drag queen story time
The worst part about this is at :45 somebody is checking out the Emoji movie
Better check it out free than to buy it yourself lol
I live in eastern Kentucky, and I want out.
For the people who support political interference in Public Libraries let me remind you during the Chernobyl Radioactive Disaster in the USSR (Current day Ukraine), many doctors working in that area didn't have the resources nor medical knowledge on how to deal with Radioactive Poisoning and how to treat patients so they would go to the library but a government representative had to see the list of books they wanted to read pertaining to that knowledge but due to censorship the "government" only allowed certain books to be read so that the Doctors wouldn't know the full idea. Imagine that, people going to the library to read on treatments to help radioactive victims but the government says "no, you can't learn everything." Imagine that happening here in America. Oh, wait it already is. Please try to think critically when voting for your legislatures.
Pushing your ideas of "diversity" is not neutral. That means these librarians have specific values they are pushing. The point is these values are at odds with the values of so many Americans and American communities. They are here to serve and represent whatever communities they are in, not control them or push them in the direction they prefer 🙄
We get it, Karen. Having to acknowledge people that don't look like you will live like you hurt your feelings and you hate them.
"Liberty consists in the right which God has given us, of doing, getting; and enjoying all the good in our power, according to the laws of God, of the State, and of our conscience.--True Liberty, 🗽 therefore, can never interfere with the duties, rights, and interests of others."
~ C. Simmons.
Sorry, there are NO laws of God ... because if there was a God there would be no fascist right-wing-nut hypocritical lying corrupt self-serving gutter scum and slime republicans!!!!
this is sad.
Beyond shocking.
As with many boundary violations in this country, I find this disturbing. Libraries are a wealth of knowledge available for anyone regardless of socioeconomic circumstances. I find this story very troubling to my American heart. Sounds like history is repeating itself. 🤔❤🇺🇸
The public don't want to use the libraries anymore because they are full of homeless hangouts, and it is dirty.
"it lacks transparency about how it buys and discards books" .. unless you go to a library and read the explanations on the walls. If they don't have a book you ask them to get it and they get it for you.. how is that a lack of diversity, how is anyone conceivably not represented by that
What was the nature of the increase in "challenges reported to our office"? Give us the details.
So if you can rationalize the increased challenges, there's no concern? You can likely contact someone in the ALA to inquire further, that's the beauty of critical thinking and intellectual humility: you learn MORE
Why not just burn the books. The nazis would be proud.
Lousy
a librarian in Kentucky,,, that's something aint it?
IN MY OPINION THEY NEED TO BE REVISED!!!!!!
communism
Fascism.
There is a library near me that did not have its funding renewed. Issue was library stocking LGBTQ books. Parents were concerned about their children having access to these materials. Slippery slope which will be hotly debated. Question becomes then, if these materials can be provided are white supremacist books allowed in the interest of educating the public.
Bring it on !! The people are going to stand up the more the laws are a disadvantage for the people. This land was made by the people and for the people
No drag queens
You will NEVER get liberals, or conservatives to stop censorship. Their both despicable.
I wonder what people were so upset about? They should give us the details.
Stop comparing Democrats to Republicans. They are NOT THE SAME! Republicans are actively dismantling our Democracy. Democrats never attacked the American Capital in a Coup Attempt
So, logically, hands off the libraries.
It's the fascist republicans who want to ban books.
*they’re
being an adult and can’t even formulate proper sentences.
Public libraries have never been a political like ever. I’m in independent but to pretend that these Democrats are not complaining about having Republicans have a saying library is a little goofy
You don’t like a book don’t check it out. It’s as simple as that. There’s many republican books available as well. Libraries are extremely non biased. Picking and choosing what should be in the collection according to your individual bias is absurd. A wide variety of books are available and there’s something for everyone. It’s shouldn’t become political. Freedom of speech is being directly attacked. Once information is censored freedom is lost.
Propaganda from media again.
Libraries. They Have it Hard.🦊🚬
It's LGBT ? Or what does this mean
All the public libraries I've been to in the last several years are nothing like they were when I was a kid.
They are sparsely stocked and the majority of material is far left rubbish, and anti western revisionist history.
There are few if any titles with a publishing date more than 20 years old, with the exception of a few classic novels, and English literature, which is sparse.
How so?! How are they being anti western? Explain does having books about non white triggers you?!
Bring God back into communities.
I would settle for decency and integrity. the party holding up the bible is the architect of fascism
@@nata3467 God is God, He doesn't change. Don't know the party you talk about, cause they both claim God.
Praise Jesus Christ.
@@James-me6dwnobody is stopping you from saying grace in school during lunch
My two moms 😀😀. Great work! Keep going until getting the darkest!
Our library is not a church. Churches do your job! Libraries should not be involved in social issues e.g transgender, immigration.
And you have to have an ID to check out a book but not to vote for the president of the United States
Can Neanderthals actually read?