“Harmful to Minors”: What does Nex Benedict have to do with book bans?

Democracies need libraries. Since their inception, libraries have served as pivotal community institutions upholding, strengthening, and realizing some of the most fundamental democratic ideals of our society. Libraries are the only American institutions that make knowledge, ideas, and information freely available to all citizens. They are where people can find differing opinions on controversial questions …

The Spectre Haunting ALA, pt 3.5: Porn and Perversion

Porn and perversion is not really the issue. The issue is, what's appropriate for public libraries and ... particularly for school libraries. And what's inappropriate for school libraries is indeed being promoted by the American Library Association. Dan Kleinman, interview with Connecticut Centinal, August 1, 2023 So, the official line is, "It's not about porn." …

The Spectre Haunting ALA, pt 2.5: The New Hotbed of Communism?

It [the ALA]'s obviously infiltrated. I mean, a lot of the leadership is infiltrated with the same people who are destroying our other institutions ... L. Todd Wood, Connecticut Centinal, August 1, 2023 Political conflict may involve the unethical placement, on one party's orders, of one or more of its adherents into another party's membership. …

The Spectre Haunting ALA, pt 2: Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Marxist?

https://twitter.com/klmccook/status/1656070397391958017?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw So, Emily Drabinski, the duly elected president of the ALA, is a Marxist. That's a scary word for a lot of folks. What does it mean? Karl Marx published The Communist Manifesto with Friedrich Engels in London in 1848. It described a class struggle in which the rich, who owned the means of production, …

The Spectre That’s Haunting the ALA?

https://twitter.com/klmccook/status/1656070397391958017?s=20 Professional gadfly and perpetual thorn-in-the-side of liberal librarians everywhere Dan Kleinman finally went and formed his own World Library Association to compete with what he believes is a sexually and politically corrupt American Library Association, in the long wake of new ALA President Emily Drabinski's public proclamation (in a now deleted tweet) that she …

Why we should never stop materials challenges, but never lose them either.

Dan's upset. The "Marxist" American Library Association is actively trying to "s3xualize" America's children and "groom" them for late-night drug-fueled Satanic Democrat Orgies culminating in HUMAN SACRIFICE!!! OK, he didn't actually say that last part out loud. But it's based on a true story. Now, I'm not going to read Dan's post again. His style …

More BS About Banned Books Week

Read this. Or skim it, like I did. Or don't. It really doesn't matter. I'll summarize it for you. Dan Kleinman found a homophobic librarian and a conservative, pro-censorship gay man who were in conflict. He then extrapolated from this that the ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom and Banned Books Week must be homophobic. OK. …

Banned Books Week: Fact or Faked?

That annual list of “banned books” is faked. One year I exposed the fake, sourced to a listed author who admitted as much in public, so #lgbt books fell off the @OIF list for two years. It’s faked. Dan Kleinman (@SexHarassed) OK, Dan, before we get into what is the real issue here? let's examine …

Dan K. & I

Back in July, I had a conversation with Dan Kleinman of SafeLibraries. Now, I kind of like Dan. He has some principles, and he's capable of a civil conversation--which, because I sometimes lack that capacity, I admire. He's also dead wrong to the point of being delusional and falls into the confirmation bias trap too …