Obvious rage bait

They just want a bunch of people to show up protesting them and trying to get it cancelled so they can say “this is no different from what we want to do to trans people”

just ignore, don't fuel their persecution fantasy

🤷‍♂️ How’s about we ignore them? If there are no press or protesters, there will be five attendees max.

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Gross

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trolls gonna troll

they'll probably come up with some way to say they were cancelled and sue again

"...... And then they murdered the little boy because he was different. The end. Wasn't that FUN kids?!"

"Umm...... Did you just tell 5 year olds a story about murder?"

"RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION BAN ALL LIBRARIES EXCEPT PRIVATE CHURCH ONES"

I hope birds shit on their heads.

There needs to be flyers around DC telling folks to ignore this obvious bait. Let them wallow in their hatred by themselves.

Shame on the library for hosting this.

Libraries as public institutions are subject to the First Amendment.

Yes, and I get that. But this isn’t just like normal political speech so every side should get access. This is people who do blatant hate speech and the library should not give a forum for that.

Missing the whole point of free speech

I hope 0 people show up.

>Yes, and I get that.

You clearly don't.

I don’t know who would in Cleveland Park.

Well if anyone wants to fuck up some white supremacists, they are advertising where they’re going to be.

Libs of TikTok returning to the scene of the crime?

2 Kings 2:24

It is not a library event. A group reserved a meeting room for a book talk. Anyone can do this. It is not an endorsement from the library.

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So what?

FYI DCPL is not hosting them. They booked a meeting room

They’re not hosting it. The publisher reserved a room

FYI they do this as rage bait then leverage it on their media channels to get library staff fired.

https://apnews.com/article/kirk-cameron-librarian-fired-tennessee-55f50f0e9c6d3da12af71a59123d6300

Please be aware that the library IS NOT ENDORSING NOR OTHERWISE INVOLVED OTHER THAN PROVIDING THE SPACE.

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Due to the way the library offers its services, we can't turn down any public meetings so long as they abide by the rules and regulations as delineated on our website. Ergo the staff at Cleveland Park would be going against our mission of being open and available to everybody so long as they aren't indulging in hate speech or bringing out torches.

We don't have the ability to refuse Kirk Cameron use of the space so long as he abides by library rules. So long as he is just doing a public reading from his book and doesn't start to actively proselytize while on the building campus our hands are tied.

Lucky for me I don't work at Cleveland Park and as such won't have to deal with this awful meeting, but I feel for the staff who do.

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Your library rules state that partons are bannable for "Engaging in bullying as defined by the Youth Bullying Prevention Act of 2012, effective September 14, 2012 (D.C. Law 19-167; 59 DCR 7820)." https://www.dclibrary.org/behavior

When I look up that statute, it includes bullying race, gender identity, and sexual orientation. Libs of Tiktok and Jack Posobiec bully for these on a daily basis. By your own rules, should they not be barred from DCPL with a category 3 violation for 1 month?

https://ohr.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/ohr/page_content/attachments/YouthBullyingPreventionAct_Final.pdf

By our rules, they'd have to do it on our premises in order to bar them for this behavior.

Don't get me wrong, I want nothing more than for Kirk Cameron to keep his clown car packed up and detour around DC, but I do want people to understand that the staff at the library have our hands tied when it comes to this.

It would take a decision from high-up administration, as in at the level of the Director, for us to turn them away, and would likely require the media relations people to coordinate with the Mayor's office to prepare for the tizzy conservatives would throw over it.

Gotcha. Thanks for the reply, thought it was worth a shot.

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It would be terrible if the parking lots were completely full prior to the time that they would need to arrive and set up, encouraging them. Only to find the Library deserted of patrons.

Headline: "DC Public Library forced by 1st Amendment to accommodate right-wing radicals that abuse 1st Amendment."