The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.
—Karl Marx
The Epoch Times reports the Long March of the Left through the cultural institutions of our country yielded a fresh victory in April, with the announcement by the American Library Association of the election of its new president, Emily Drabinksy. The ALA, like most institutions of its kind, has trended left for decades and though you’ll find nothing on its website concerning the singularity of Ms Drabinsky’s election, you only need turn to social media, Twitter in this case, where ordinarily cautious public figures strangely lose all sense of restraint, to learn just who and what the ALA’s new president is.
Directly being elected to her new job, Ms Drabinsky tweeted this joyous and ebullient message.
I just cannot believe that a Marxist lesbian who believes that collective power is possible to build and can be wielded for a better world is the president-elect of @ALALibrary. I am so excited for what we will do together. Solidarity! And my mom is SO PROUD I love you mom.
(We’ll ignore Ms Drabinsky’s childish syntax. It’s de rigueur on social media and besides, grammar and punctuation are so bourgeois, even for librarians.)
It didn’t take long for Ms Drabinsky’s comrades to echo her self-praise.
“Congratulations Emily, we’re thrilled to have a comrade as president-elect of the American Library Association!”
Another wrote:
“I’m very excited to have a Marxist lesbian as our ALA President. It’s about time.”
And so it goes. O’Sullivan’s First Law states: “All organizations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing.” Such is the case with the ALA. Parents should keep the election of Comrade Drabinksy in mind when taking their children to their local library, especially the children’s department, less for the god-awful titles being added to the shelves–they’re easy enough to ignore–rather, and far more important, the titles being removed.
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