Proof positive that the Dummy Books for Psychotic Episodes really don’t work.

Who do they let write these Library Journal blogs anyway?

And yes, if the conservative community’s requests are being denied for ideological reasons, that is unacceptable. In my experience, the reverse is more often the case, but most public libraries are fairly responsive to requests.

And, I think the fact that professors with a “liberal” stance, if we define it in this case as anti-segregationist, is indeed more common in universities. In my opinion, this isn’t a result of conspiracy, but because people who are anti-gay and anti-diversity are generally less intelligent than those who are for equal rights. Thankfully we are seeing the anti-gay ideas becoming less socially acceptable, as we have for the last 50 years with anti-black/anti-”diversity” ideas. You “conservatives” would have to initiate an affirmative action campaign to get yourself back in to teaching positions (“yes we are less intelligent, but we deserve an equal chance to teach”), but that is against your beliefs, so a catch 22 there.

The library community in question has a demographic pretty evenly split between the 2 parties, by the way, so there is no “one” overriding theme. When the community continually asks for conservative books and they are denied, that goes against what libraries are “supposed” to be about.

And yes, the “insidious liberals” have infected our schools, proven by the fact that promoting pro-homosexual anything is fine, but having the audacity to say that you want a pro-hetero stance portrayed as well is considered hate speech.

So, silly boy, I didn’t try to “catch” him, he threw himself in the net by being intellectually dishonest.

Well, it is “every book a reader,” which is the same thing as, purchase “what the community wants.” Every viewpoint doesn’t have to be represented if no one is likely to care, and it’s the collection development librarian’s job to evaluate that.

Pushing a bunch of Conservative Christian propaganda on most communities will be a waste of time, and it will just collect dust. Likewise, filling a Christian library with anti-God vitriol is also a waste of time and money.

The real point of your post is to show us how you “caught” him by being so tricky, and to show us how the insidious liberals have infected our schools. That’s annoying and innaccurate; most of us have been burned out on that song and dance for several years now.

Several classes later, the topic resurfaced briefly, and I raised my hand and queried the prof about what would happen if a certain library refused to buy any very Conservative Christian books or books that point out the dangers of forced Diversity — suddenly his answer was, well, you have to fill the shelves with what the community wants, since it’s their tax money.

I swear you could smell the rubber from the backpeddling.

So which is it?