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k1lk1 t1_ivja8m3 wrote

I remember when libraries served their patrons and didn't try to make political statements halfway across the country.

Just more people who make everything about politics, capturing our institutions to use them to fight their political battles. Many NGOs and charities are captured in this way (e.g. wikimedia foundation).

Brooklyn library should be making headlines for its great service for Brooklynites.

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marketingguy420 t1_ivjv8xh wrote

American libraries are accessible to all Americans, and non-Americans. They're one of the few functional public institutions we have left. Seems like a good mission of any decent library and librarian would be helping others access reading material being banned for overt political reasons, especially in our own country.

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k1lk1 t1_ivjvy93 wrote

> American libraries are accessible to all Americans, and non-Americans.

Inaccurate

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eekamuse t1_ivjyggy wrote

Clueless.

Probably needs to use the library sometime.

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marketingguy420 t1_ivjwemb wrote

Do you think libraries have imperial guards checking passports at the door lmao. Anyone can walk in and read a book in New York.

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Pennwisedom t1_ivkpbsj wrote

>Brooklyn library should be making headlines for its great service for Brooklynites.

Somehow I get the feeling you probably have no idea what the BPL does or doesn't do. Though I'm sure you can Google it and pretend like you do.

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eekamuse t1_ivjy4ih wrote

So you support banning books.

This is not a question.

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k1lk1 t1_ivjygrn wrote

Don't be an idiot. Seriously.

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elizabeth-cooper t1_ivkdhlb wrote

Do you think libraries own a copy of every single book that exists on the entire planet or do they curate their collection?

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LivefromPhoenix t1_ivl2v22 wrote

Oh boy, wait until you hear about this cool new thing called the internet.

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King-of-New-York OP t1_ivjcqnv wrote

In an ideal world, yes. But it’s hard for a public institution like a library to stay neutral in today’s political climate.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/11/ron-desantis-moms-for-liberty-florida-book-bans.html

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Darrackodrama t1_ivljhbt wrote

Staying neutral is making everything open source and letting the reader decide.

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k1lk1 t1_ivjecs2 wrote

Is it though? Shouldn't local institutions serve local people? Have all of the access and equity issues in Brooklyn really been solved already? Florida and Oklahoma have nothing to do with Brooklynites access to information.

Again, this is just political warriors capturing every entity they can and using it to pursue ideological ends.

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paradox_djell t1_ivjes2d wrote

It’s sad that you think this is a zero sum game where if they help someone else, it means they’re not helping us locals.

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k1lk1 t1_ivjf0np wrote

That's how spending money works. If you buy one thing, you are by definition not buying something else.

Call me crazy but I'd rather see the money go to assisting, oh, the hundreds of thousands of descendants of slaves, who live in Brooklyn.

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LivefromPhoenix t1_ivl2q2y wrote

>The Brooklyn Public Library’s “Books Unbanned” program provides access to its eBook collection and learning databases for people between the ages of 13 and 21.

Do conservative culture warriors even bother reading the posts before freaking out over this stuff? The cost of providing e-books and other online material for free to young people is negligible, especially considering its already set up for residents.

--edit-- Poor guy got embarrassed for not reading the article before complaining and blocked me.

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King-of-New-York OP t1_ivjfegm wrote

As an outsider looking in I believe that the BPL sees the actions across the country as an attack on its own autonomy, not as an attack on a completely separate entity.

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co_matic t1_ivl4d9n wrote

>political warriors capturing every entity they can and using it to pursue ideological ends

You mean like the activist social media accounts giving parents lists of scary books to take to their school boards and try to have removed from libraries?

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parkslopeymcamanager t1_ivjld8u wrote

I don't know who the nutjob in this article is, however as a parent I don't have a problem with certain clearly inappropriate books not being in school libraries.

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Alternative-Lion-427 t1_ivltlng wrote

Oh yeah. I read this book where these girls watch their mom die, then they decided they had to get their dad drunk and have sex with him to ensure he has sons to carry on the family name. Books like that have no place in the hands of kids. It's teaching sexual immorality, promoting drunkenness, and of course incest. Man. What was that book called.....

Oh yeah. The bible.

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Popdmb t1_ivnct2j wrote

I don't know if you meant to do this, but you typed and then published that "Wikimedia" was captured by something. They are Switzerland.

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