The Librarians Will Save Us
A group of 13 “abolitionist librarians” from Ivy League universities… is demanding that their colleagues “immediately begin the work of divesting from police and prisons.” […] The group wants Ivy League librarians to “explicitly name policing itself as the problem” and take actions that will lead to the “complete abolition of law enforcement.”
Something-something “white supremacy” something-something “privilege.” I’m paraphrasing, of course. But really, it’s the same doctrinaire horseshit we’ve seen a hundred times. And according to which, the world will be enormously improved by the “abolition of policing in all its forms.” If that isn’t sufficiently unambiguous, our Ivy League librarians insist that their “ultimate goal” is, and I quote, “the complete abolition of law enforcement… everywhere.” Because “a world without policing” will somehow, rather conveniently, be a world without crime. And because helping people find the books that they’d like to borrow is just too boring and insufficiently high-status for minds such as these.
More than 700 individuals and organisations have signed the petition.
By the way, and before you ask, that sickly-sweet odour is the ongoing decay of your civilisation. A society in which the children of the elite are immersed in such dogma – and are told that their civilisation shouldn’t defend itself against sociopathy and predation – isn’t, I’d suggest, in the best of health. And when these mouthings are deemed high-status, both sophisticated and aspirational, a marker of in-group belonging, then the words preening degeneracy seem entirely apt.
Previously in the world of uppity librarians.
If there are no police, what’s the fear of the armed citizen for actions that greet shoplifting, mugging, or even jaywalking with deadly violence?
I suspect that you’ll find that there will be police available for that.
I strongly suspected that more than half of a given class had never set foot in it.
I’m a book lover and I think I went in to the university library once to actually look for something. I understand the purpose of libraries from earlier times, but once you can mail order books, why go to a library? I buy anything I want to read, for professional or pleasure reading.
If there are no police, what’s the fear of the armed citizen for actions that greet shoplifting, mugging, or even jaywalking with deadly violence?
Ask George Zimmerman and Kyle Rettenhouse, likely others…
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Speaking of defunding the police, I wonder how the let’s use social workers experiment is working out?
Oh my, who could have seen this coming.
Their leftist utopia is just ahead.
We all long for The Glorious World of Next Tuesday.
How racist must you be to insist that we need to stop making things illegal because some people inherently cannot follow rules?
Actually I suspect that the primary intention is to follow the Soviet Union’s solution to this issue – dissolve the police and instead have a “people’s militia” who will be better attuned (as it were) to the politIcal stance of their betters. Thus this “militia” will only attack and “police” those who the party elite believe need such treatment, and who will then get it good and hard just so you will understand who is in control.
As Instapundit has been known to say, “Letting our civilisation’s enemies teach our children may have been a mistake.”
Yes.
But we won’t.
This demonstrates how easily educated, intelligent people can be subsumed into bizarre religious and political cults and end up adopting the most bizarre stances.
Disco was another example.
Actually I suspect that the primary intention is to follow the Soviet Union’s solution to this issue – dissolve the police and instead have a “people’s militia” who…will only attack and “police” those who the party elite believe need such treatment
I do not suspect. I am certain.
G’day, I see that librarians from U. of Chicago support this drivel. U. of C. is in Hyde Park, South Side of Chicago. When I lived on campus in 1979- ’80 the university had a security/police force complete with squad cars of about 100 personnel. At every street intersection on campus there was a security phone for emergencies. Students working late in the library could ask for an escort home by security personnel at night as they returned to their dorms. People made a point of walking down the middle of streets on campus after hours so they could see better and avoid lurking criminals. Every new student was warned never to go on foot north of 47th. street and south of 63rd. To the west was Washington Park – definitely a no-go area – except for a neighbour who had two huge Doberman dogs. To the east was the Lake. The university was in the practice of buying up every property around it that came on the market to increase the area it could control and keep safe. I cannot imagine that the need for police/security has suddenly abated in 2020 due to SJ Wankers singing multiple choruses of Kumbaya. I wonder though if the U. of C. librarians will be willing to give up the security afforded them by the University ‘police’ force in their desire to make the world a perfect communistic place?
Jim
U. of C. is in Hyde Park, South Side of Chicago
Yes. The South Side is an extremely dangerous area. If you have read about Chicago’s high murder rate, most of those murders happen on the South Side.
South side of Chicago? Baddest part of town.
If you go down there you better just beware of a man named LeRoy Brown.
I heard Slim was tougher.
If you go down there you better just beware of a man named LeRoy Brown.
No worries: he’ll turn into a pussycat when the abolish the police.
Slim? You mean that Alabama boy, name of Willy McCoy? Different story about a pool shooting son of a gun.
Letting our civilisation’s enemies teach our children…
Chapter MMMMMMMDCCLXV, not that everything isn’t, these days.
2020, a play in two acts:
Act 1
Act 2
2020, a play in two acts
I couldn’t help but think of Abbott and Costello: ‘Who’s on first, … What’s on second and I don’t know’s on third.
Jim
Heh. I was aware of both tunes but merged the two in my head.
https://www.reddit.com/r/whowouldwin/comments/1fej6q/bad_bad_leroy_brown_or_you_dont_mess_around_with/
I was on the road to being a librarian. Well, for a few months anyway. This sort of thing happened a lot. I think the biggest issue is that they’re going through an identity crisis and far left politics fills that void for them. “What does it mean to be a librarian in the digital age?” or some version thereof is asked in every library science class and the answer is almost always something along the lines of “Professional left wing activists! Also, maybe some web design, babysitting homeless people and sharing memes about how everyone’s image of libraries is outdated!”.
Library science grad programs are also half poorly made vocational programs that try to prepare you for a job and half normal grad programs, but with really poorly written research with comically small sample sizes that aim to get the the answers to questions no one is interested in really answering. Out of this confusion there somehow emerges a sort of dumbed down Trotskyism.
They think they are sophisticated by saying that librarians don’t just manage buildings full of books but all of their extra activities and effort don’t add value to anybody’s life. Many people see value in publicly funded buildings full of books- but very few want the government to subsidize shouty know it alls who seem to be morphing into low budget versions of social workers with less training and a disdain for the very idea of knowledge.
My favorite moment from library school was when a guest speaker came in, without being prompted began gushing over that TV (online? whatever) series about Jeffrey Dahmer’s high school years, then spent the next ten minutes talking about how evil doesn’t exist and librarians can’t make moral judgements. No one seemed to see the irony. The upshot of the whole thing was you’re a fascist if don’t want to spend limited library resources on books about gay penguins but also a fascist if you point out that its weird the way librarians always brag about “misplacing” books by conservative authors.
and the answer is almost always something along the lines of “Professional left wing activists!…”
Or, “My job is insufficiently flattering and glamorous. I’ll graft on some leftwing activism and make taxpayers bankroll it whether they wish to or not. That’ll make me feel of more importance to the cosmos.”
I’ll graft on some leftwing activism…
…and generate some world class Christmas woke dickweedery.
@ Farnsworth M M: It’s a shame that some of the old practices for dealing with fools, harpies and scolds and village idiots e.g. ducking stools, stocks and even tar and feathers, have lost favour.
I particularly enjoyed the last sentence: “We must come together collectively and challenge these institutional inequities; St Antony is a community welcoming of all people and we must do better for ourselves.”
In other words do as you are ordered or get out! People like you are not welcome in our – no MY – welcoming community!!
Not The Son Of God.
…and generate some world class . . . .
Christmas lights?
Granting we’re not seeing the details of the lights, but Hanukkah starts on the 10th this year, Yule starts on the 21st, the 25th has one of the Christmases—and that’s just three of the possibilities for DecemberIsh . . . . . . Or mebbe someone decided to just get decorative?—These days lots of stores do have rather the sale of lots of shiny lights . . .
Aside from the letter being utterly silly, there are the reasons for that envelope to have that Happy Holidays time stamp on it . . . especially for anyone being generally decorative . . . .
Hmmm. Things like biographies appear in libraries.
Chuck Yeager, 1923-2020
But WTF do we need libraries for? Damn things are chock full of Danielle Steele and Stephen King crap to promote more new book sales for publishers, but ask about Thomas Hobbes or George Santayana and they look at you like you have two heads.
How racist must you be to insist that we need to stop making things illegal because some people inherently cannot follow rules?
That’s the odd bit. The rules that work best are the rules that most people follow. You’ll find different rules (or different levels of enforcement) in different places around the world. One of the most obvious mistakes in America (and many other places) is the proposition that we could import massive quantities of foreigners and expect them to follow our rules just like any other person already here.
We’ve been hanging onto this delusion for a while but it has finally hit the wall as schools and law enforcement give way to various demands. In this transitional period we are being subjected to different rules for different people. The blacks can riot, loot, and attack almost at will while most others would have their lives ruined. The poor immigrants can sneak over the border and access a bewildering array of private and public programs to help them live and work or just sit on the couch.
… oh: librarians?
Their expressed desires to exclude and eliminate bad-thinkers should wake up a lot of people. Why don’t we, the bad-thinkers who built and maintain this prosperous society, take actions to exclude and eliminate these corrosive progs?
They’ll pass a law banning law enforcement and any breach of that law will be strictly enforced.