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Perhaps you do not know anyone who works in a library. Go ask one. This has been the ethos for over 100 years in America.
by popalchemist 12d ago
Perhaps you do not know anyone who works in a library. Go ask one. This has been the ethos for over 100 years in America.
- carefree-bob 12d agoIn fact, I do. Maybe you are in a bubble, but go ahead and try to get people to vote for public funding of "safe spaces" and then have them vote for public funding of "convenient access to media for taxpayers", and see which proposition gets the most votes. You will be surprised, and then you will accuse America of being a fascist country, when the actual ethos of people are revealed.
- popalchemist 12d agohttps://www.ala.org/advocacy/diversity/librariesrespond/services-poor-homeless https://www.ala.org/advocacy/diversity/librariesrespond/serv... it was formalized in the 60's but there was a precedent going back AT LEAST to the wild west.
- carefree-bob 12d ago[flagged]
- popalchemist 12d agoThe ALA is the canonical answer as to what is official policy of American libraries. Whether you agree with its politics or not, those policies and the ethos underlying them are not something new. You're clearly a right wing nut (since "libraries are more than buildings with books" is something you find "poltiical" and facts are something to be rejected), just come out and say it.
- badpun 12d agoAncient Rome had libraries already, I'm pretty sure their "ethos" wasn't about inclusivity and safe spaces. Somewhere along the line from then to now, it got subverted.
- mepian 11d agoAncient Rome also had slavery.