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bucolic_frolic

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2. Library boards can be tools
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 01:11 PM
Dec 13

Often pillars of the (conservative) community - businessmen, do-gooders, real estate execs, and the like. Fine.

But ours got sort of privatized, is it a NGO? I don't know how it's characterized. Now it has a CEO. There have been book wars, I think reversed, mostly. But I did see a racist book in the remaining mix. Maybe tolerance is best, let the public decide by what they read.

But that's a problem too. Most books recommended by Library Association? A national thing that pushes titles on libraries. But why do we get every last conservative screed that comes along, but no Thom Hartman? It's a broken system. And the library has the gall to pump the public for money. I wouldn't give them a dime.

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