I don't think people understand the gravity of making librarians and teachers *criminally liable* for disseminating information. Fascist shit, from a known playbook. No one has the luxury of being surprised anymore.
"How could they do this?!" Ppl ask like...yall, bc they've done it before.🙄 It's very well researched phenomena actually and it's odd to me when people act like fascists are mysterious evil beings. Like there's no mystery, they're just evil beings. The ringleaders know what they're doing.
Watch "Storm Center" (1956). Bette Davis is a librarian during the McCarthy era. At least in the movie the librarian wins.
Medical professionals, teachers, migrant workers, college students now librarians. The internal migration is going to be interesting to watch.
Your homework for today, class: List three ways this bill could be beneficial, and three ways it could be harmful. Discuss.
In a state with this law rn. Everyone is panicking & 2nd guessing every title in the collection - especially since we don't know exactly who will be held liable. It's easy to say *I* am ready to go to jail for this book; but am I willing to send the clerk who checks it out? The page who shelves it?
Terrifying.
West Virginia was long since removed from my list of possible retirement locations. This confirms I made a good decision.
There should be a ruling that no state is allowed to put those sorts of laws on the books unless they agree to remove the Bible too (which has many lewd, obscene, and/or violent tales in it).