A large organization that drives the training of U.S. librarians and their use of public funds has chosen a self-described “Marxist lesbian” as its next president amid growing concern about libraries actively connecting children to sexually explicit activities and materials.
Emily Drabinski was elected president of the American Library Association last week by the organization’s members. She will take office in July 2023.
ALA’s approximately 54,000 members include librarians, libraries, library graduate schools, members of library boards and associations, and library students. The vast majority of its membership fees, therefore, are provided by taxpayer funds.
Drabinski won with 5,410 votes from such an electorate, compared to her opponent’s 4,622 votes, according to an ALA press release. The election was conducted online.
The interim chief librarian of The Graduate Center at City University of New York (CUNY), where she was previously the “critical pedagogy librarian,” Drabinski posts openly on her Twitter feed in support of sexually exposing children, union-led political strife, socialist politicians, and libraries pushing explicit and far-left material on unwilling taxpayers.
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“I so value Emily’s work in intentionally bringing a class, labor, and queer consciousness to her efforts as an anti-racist ally,” wrote fellow ALA member April M. Hathcock in a public endorsement of Drabinski.
Link to the rest at The Federalist and thanks to E. for the tip.
PG noted in the OP that the new union president received the support of 10% of the members of the ALA and the number of members who effectively boycotted the election by not voting for anyone was over 80% of the total ALA membership.
PG did a little research on the ALA website and discovered that there are about 166,000 paid librarians in the United States plus an additional 200,000 “paid staff”, so 5,410 voters for Ms. Drabinski as ALA president is not necessarily an indication that she speaks for anything close to most librarians.
PG will also note that nobody is a Marxist any more and labor unions are representing a declining number and percentage of workers in the US – 10.3% currently per PG’s research at the website of the Bureau of Labor Statistics at the US Department of Labor. In 1983, about 20% of the US workforce were members of labor unions.
Effectively none of the employees of the giant tech companies in the US that are responsible for most of the economic growth over the last 25-35 years are members of labor unions.
PG further suggests that neither leader of Russia or China are Marxists/Communists that Lenin would have recognized as such, just old-fashioned thugs/dictators who are so distanced from the proletariat as to be totally out of touch with the lower-income 80% of the population of their nations.
(PG understands that he is using traditional gendered pronouns in his description of Drabinski which the Prez may not like. While he means no personal offense, he can’t be bothered with following trends in personal pronouns or labor unions.)
This kind of overreach is a actually a good thing.
It makes it easier to see who is who and it helps determine just how willing to tolerate extremes the center is. As opposed, to say, running a political campaign on centrist promises and then governing by promoting the 6% agenda.
Credit the lady for honesty.
Now to see what reactions, if any, follow.
I Googled the heck out of that wondering if she’s being tongue-in-cheek. Maybe a dig at Elizabeth Warren on one of those parts?
The Babylon Bee is getting lots more competition.
Sorry, Darren, but getting a degree at the institution cited in the OP’s author bio requires not washing, but dry-cleaning. I’ve had plenty of professional contact (especially in my first one); the rumors that they uniformly believe that there are exactly 57 card-carrying atheists in the United States government (who must, of course, be exposed and fired) are in my experience true, and if there are no such rumors I’m perfectly willing to start them. I’ll leave the particular evidence for another time, but it’s not in the pantry.
One might try decoding the OP’s short author bio, too, which buries the lede in its last sentence.
I’m always terribly amused at attempts to anthropomorphize large voluntary-membership organizations based upon caricatures of their elected leaders. <sarcasm> All members of the Teamsters are obviously mafiosi, because Jimmy Hoffa, ya know?
Agree. The vote totals remind me of school board elections. But it is this bunch that writes the articles that perhaps unfairly tar the rest of the profession.
(My pronouns ate it/it.)