{"id":1450294,"date":"2022-04-22T12:59:40","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T16:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1450294"},"modified":"2022-04-22T13:00:28","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T17:00:28","slug":"amid-public-concern-about-grooming-kids-american-library-association-picks-marxist-lesbian-as-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amid-public-concern-about-grooming-kids-american-library-association-picks-marxist-lesbian-as-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid Public Concern About Grooming Kids, American Library Association Picks \u2018Marxist Lesbian\u2019 As President"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famid-public-concern-about-grooming-kids-american-library-association-picks-marxist-lesbian-as-president%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1450294&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A large organization that drives the training of U.S. librarians and their use of public funds has chosen a self-described \u201cMarxist lesbian\u201d as its next president amid growing concern about libraries actively connecting children to sexually explicit activities and materials. <\/p>\n<p>Emily Drabinski was <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BasedLibrarian\/status\/1514927421820219393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1514927421820219393%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthefederalist.com%2F%3Fp%3D270874\">elected<\/a> president of the American Library Association last week by the organization\u2019s members. She will take office in July 2023.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/originaltweetdrabinskiwins.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-271092\" width=\"423\" height=\"595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/originaltweetdrabinskiwins.jpg 583w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/originaltweetdrabinskiwins-214x300-1.jpg 214w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>ALA\u2019s approximately 54,000 members include librarians, libraries, library graduate schools, members of library boards and associations, and library students. The vast majority of its membership fees, therefore, are provided by taxpayer funds.<\/p>\n<p>Drabinski won with 5,410 votes from such an electorate, compared to her opponent\u2019s 4,622 votes, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ala.org\/news\/press-releases\/2022\/04\/drabinski-wins-2023-2024-ala-presidency\">an ALA press release<\/a>. The election was conducted online.<\/p>\n<p>The interim chief librarian of The Graduate Center at City University of New York (CUNY), where she was previously the \u201ccritical pedagogy librarian,\u201d Drabinski posts openly on her Twitter feed in support of sexually exposing children, union-led political strife, socialist politicians, and libraries pushing explicit and far-left material on unwilling taxpayers. <\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/supportforpubliclyfunded-drag-performances.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-271056\" width=\"-173\" height=\"-166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/supportforpubliclyfunded-drag-performances.jpg 886w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/supportforpubliclyfunded-drag-performances-300x289-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/supportforpubliclyfunded-drag-performances-768x740-1.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pushingpolitics.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-270876\" width=\"613\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pushingpolitics.jpg 871w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pushingpolitics-300x286-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pushingpolitics-768x732-1.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/dravinski2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-270877\" width=\"598\" height=\"727\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/dravinski2.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/dravinski2-247x300-1.jpg 247w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/supportforsocialists.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-271057\" width=\"605\" height=\"583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/supportforsocialists.jpg 887w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/supportforsocialists-300x289-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/supportforsocialists-768x739-1.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>On a personal web page, Drabinski <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emilydrabinski.com\/endorsements\/\">touted <\/a>multiple endorsements from labor and LGBT activists in her bid for the ALA presidency, including from Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers union. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI so value Emily\u2019s work in intentionally bringing a class, labor, and queer consciousness to her efforts as an anti-racist ally,\u201d wrote fellow ALA member April M. Hathcock in a public <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emilydrabinski.com\/endorsements\/\">endorsement <\/a>of Drabinski.<\/p>\n<p>For more than a century, labor unions have often functioned as a recruiting and muscle operation for the Communist Party and its fellow travelers and shell operations.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Kr6NKOAspTs\">TV interview<\/a> with a Boise station last week about her ALA election, Drabinski conveyed surprise at public concerns about libraries making pornographic materials available to children and buying them with taxpayer resources.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like concerted political efforts to sort of push this, sort of story about what libraries do which seems very, you know, it\u2019s anathema to what libraries actually do, that we are, sort of pushing pornographic materials on our patrons and it\u2019s really not what we do at all,\u201d she claimed. \u201c\u2026There\u2019s no big library agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to her claims in that interview, however, Drabinski\u2019s other YouTube videos are replete with teaching other librarians how to \u201csubvert\u201d and inject hard-left politics and sexuality into their publicly funded work. For one example, consider one of many such lectures she gave to other librarians on July 6, 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=97IfrVFiKyc\">titled <\/a>\u201cTeaching the Radical Catalog.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the lecture, Drabinski discussed her homosexual coming out experience and how saturating in a campus environment of proliferating sexual identities changed how she approaches being a librarian. At her first librarian job, \u201cAt Sarah Lawrence, absolutely everybody was queer. \u2026 There were so many ways to be gay. \u2026 And it was my job to teach those students how to find themselves in our library catalog,\u201d she said. She described queering the library as \u201ccritical thinking\u201d and \u201cthinking critically about the catalog.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a slide from that presentation showing the sexuality sections of the Library of Congress catalog. In it, you can see the Closed Captioning of what Drabinski is saying while showing the slide, which includes affirming the idea that \u201cqueerness includes the subversion of those kinds of normal family types.\u201d She\u2019s referring to the family types that naturally produce children \u2014 i.e. a married man and woman.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"367\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Drabinskislide2-1024x367-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-270905\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Drabinskislide2-1024x367-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Drabinskislide2-300x108.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Drabinskislide2-768x275-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Drabinskislide2-1536x551-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Drabinskislide2.jpg 1768w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>In the rest of the presentation, Drabinski went on to teach librarians how to change how visitors find books about sex, contradicting her claims to the Boise reporter that librarians don\u2019t work to get sexual material into patrons\u2019 hands. This very effort has been a part of Drabinski\u2019s public professional work for decades, by her own public attestation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can equip our students with the capacity to wring what they need out of library structures, and wringing what you need out of systems that exclude you is a necessary life skill for survival and revolution,\u201d she concluded in her talk. \u201cAnd we can also help build a way of shaping students as agents of change both inside the library and out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So while Drabinski tells the general public that librarians aren\u2019t trying to help minors access pornography, by her own admission elsewhere that\u2019s exactly what she has focused her professional career on doing, with taxpayer resources. In their endorsements, fellow ALA members and leaders said, as did \u201cformer ALA Council member\u201d Jenna Freedman, that Drabinski\u2019s professional \u201caccomplishments\u201d include \u201cqueering the landscape of library publishing and scholarship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is supported by her <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=ALO3OVkAAAAJ\">Google Scholar page<\/a>, which ranks Drabinski\u2019s 2013 article \u201cQueering the Catalog\u201d as her top-cited work. In that article, she notes \u201cthe first program of ALA\u2019s Task Force on Gay Liberation was called Sex and the Single Cataloger, a session about the trouble with headings for gay and lesbian materials.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>That ALA task force was founded in 1970, and was the first formally organized professional U.S. organization to push LGBT preferences. That task force now annually presents the Stonewall Awards for LGBT-themed books. Such recommendations are essentially \u201cbuy list\u201d excuses for public libraries that ensure major taxpayer subsidies for <a href=\"https:\/\/alphanews.org\/mother-reveals-books-in-school-libraries-depicting-child-porn-and-pedophilia\/\">often obscene<\/a>, and what would otherwise be mostly obscure, books that few people ever saw or requested from libraries.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2013 article, again flatly contradicting her representations to the Boise TV station, Drabinski developed a \u201cstrategy [that] suggests the possibility of a queer library politics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cQueer theory provides a useful theoretical frame for rethinking the stable, fixed categories and systems of naming that characterize library organization schemes and strategies for helping users navigate them,\u201d Drabinski wrote. She essentially explained \u201cqueer theory\u201d as the rejection of the existence of truth, either in language or in anything: \u201cViewing cataloging and classification from a queer perspective [is] \u2014 one that challenges the idea that classification and subject language can ever be corrected once and for all.\u201d She argued that since gender identities are fluid, so must be library classification systems and stacks.<\/p>\n<p>This is a rejection of Western thought and civilization, which is built on the search for truth. A search for truth presupposes that truth exists and can be at least partially known. This also implies the world has an intrinsic, natural order that can, and indeed must, be acknowledged (i.e., the natural law). So it\u2019s no surprise that a woman who opposes truth, and instead deifies self-created and unnatural identities, calls herself a Marxist.<\/p>\n<p>Whether in its predominantly economic or cultural forms (which, as they say, <em>intersect<\/em>), Marxists are committed to overthrowing the West, including all of its organizing ideas and accomplishments. In addition to lies and deception, Marxists use sexual chaos <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/04\/19\/second-wave-feminists-pushed-the-sexual-revolution-to-end-america-and-its-working\/\">as a deliberate strategy<\/a> of cultural destruction. The \u201cqueer theory\u201d in which Drabinski specializes openly aims to destroy the West by destroying the natural family, natural sex, natural relationships between the sexes and the children those sexes produce only heterosexually, natural distinctions, natural hierarchies, and order itself.<\/p>\n<p>The United States, especially in the Declaration of Independence and Constitution that gave this great nation its birth, is the chief modern example of Western achievement. Its achievements are precisely in recognizing and attempting to adhere to the natural order as closely as possible. And now those who hold the keys to its so-called institutions of learning use their positions and resources to erase truth and the natural law, which are the very foundation of Western society. <\/p>\n<p>Like other Marxists, Drabinski also makes politically exclusionary statements that show she doesn\u2019t approach non-leftists with good faith, instead desiring to wage political war against people who disagree with her with whatever resources she can muster. <\/p>\n<p>For example, writing in the Los Angeles Review of Books in December 2019, Drabinski <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220310154859\/https:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/article\/the-revolution-wont-be-live-tweeted-on-jen-schradies-the-revolution-that-wasnt-how-digital-activism-favors-conservatives\/\">wrote<\/a>, \u201cThe [political] right is interested in maintaining the status quo, preserving white supremacy and the continuing consolidation of wealth into their hands and no one else\u2019s. \u2026 Like the United States itself, the right is enriched by capitalism, racism, and patriarchy.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>On that issue, at least, she was willing to tip her hand to the very accomodating Boise journalist: \u201cI think we have legacies of racism to undo,\u201d she commented while on another subject. To her, however, as to so many others now atop our commanding heights, dismantling \u201cracism\u201d means \u201cdismantling America.\u201d One pervy picture book and publicly funded twerk at a time.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Joy Pullmann is executive editor of The Federalist, a happy wife, and the mother of six children. <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/iX1dsZnedpJjPMoP7\">Sign up here to get early access<\/a> to her next ebook, &#8220;101 Strategies For Living Well Amid Inflation.&#8221; Her bestselling ebook is &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/payhip.com\/b\/R1JL\">Classic Books for Young Children<\/a>.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Pullmann identifies as native American and gender natural. She is also the author of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Education-Invasion-Parents-Control-American\/dp\/1594038813\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1486730068&#038;sr=8-1&#038;keywords=education+invasion\">The Education Invasion: How Common Core Fights Parents for Control of American Kids<\/a>,&#8221; from Encounter Books. In 2013-14 she won a Robert Novak journalism fellowship for in-depth reporting on Common Core national education mandates. <\/p>\n<p>Joy is a grateful graduate of the Hillsdale College honors and journalism programs.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large organization that drives the training of U.S. librarians and their use of public funds has chosen a self-described \u201cMarxist lesbian\u201d as its next president amid growing concern about<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":519,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1450294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1450294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1450294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1450294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1450294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}