{"id":1993715,"date":"2023-08-07T21:12:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T01:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/marxist-lesbian-president-of-american-library-association-doubles-down-on-agenda-for-a-better-world\/"},"modified":"2023-08-07T21:13:52","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T01:13:52","slug":"marxist-lesbian-president-of-american-library-association-doubles-down-on-agenda-for-a-better-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/marxist-lesbian-president-of-american-library-association-doubles-down-on-agenda-for-a-better-world\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Marxist Lesbian&#8217; ALA President Stands Firm on &#8216;Better World&#8217; Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fmarxist-lesbian-president-of-american-library-association-doubles-down-on-agenda-for-a-better-world%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=1993715&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--><h2>The President of the\u2064 American Library \u200dAssociation Stands Firm Amid Backlash<\/h2>\n<p>The president of the American Library \u2063Association (ALA) is standing by\u200b her \u2064\u201cMarxist\u201d views \u200das a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/justin-trudeaus-half-brother-turns-on-morally-repugnant-sibling-as-hashtag-backlash-grows\/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\u2019s Half-Brother Turns On \u2018Morally Repugnant\u2019 Sibling As Hashtag Backlash Grows\">backlash grows<\/a> against the \u200bassociation among Republican lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>Emily Drabinski, a self-proclaimed \u201cMarxist lesbian,\u201d took over as president of the ALA in July. The ALA is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/marxist-lesbian-president-of-american-library-association-doubles-down-on-agenda-for-a-better-world\/\" title=\"'Marxist Lesbian' ALA President Stands Firm on 'Better World' Agenda\">largest nonprofit trade organization<\/a> \u2062for libraries, recently wielding its influence against efforts to ban sexually\u200c explicit content from school libraries and to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-viral-post-misstates-facts-about-infant-mortality-and-vaccines-in-japan-and-us\/\" title=\"FACT CHECK: Viral Post Misstates Facts About Infant Mortality And Vaccines In Japan And US\">recommend dozens<\/a> of LGBT books for minors.<\/p>\n<p>The backlash against Drabinski began over a post she made to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">social media<\/a> before taking her spot at the head of the ALA.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI 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,\u201d \u200dDrabinski wrote in an April 2022 post. \u201cI\u2062 am so excited for what we will do together. Solidarity! And my mom is\u200c SO PROUD. I love you mom.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite the backlash, she doubled-down in an\u200d interview \u200dwith NBC News published on Monday.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI was excited to highlight and celebrate two aspects of my identity that are really important to me, and are often under a lot of scrutiny,\u201d Drabinski said, adding that she wanted to be\u2064 an example for other library \u2062employees who shared her identities. \u201cI didn\u2019t anticipate these kinds of targeted attacks being used as a bludgeon \u200dagainst \u2063library workers across the country. I \u200dreally think that \u200cis regrettable, and I wish\u200b that wasn\u2019t happening\u2062 right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Montana State Library Commission became the first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/timeline-andrew-cuomos-scandalous-covid-19-response\/\" title=\"Timeline: Andrew Cuomo\u2019s Scandalous COVID-19 Response\">state commission<\/a> to leave the\u2062 ALA over Drabinski\u2019s comments in July. Montana State Library \u200dCommissioner Tamara Hall praised the decision, calling it a \u201cstatement\u201d about \u200d\u201cwhat\u2019s right\u200d for \u2064Montana.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re pulling out based\u200d on the fact that our \u200coath \u2064of office\u200c for Montana \u2064and for the federal government is in direct violation of [Drabinski\u2019s] \u200dMarxist opinion,\u201d Hall said at the time.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In addition \u200cto\u200d Montana, lawmakers in other states \u2013 including Arizona, Idaho, Illinois, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Wyoming \u2062\u2013 have led calls to separate off from the ALA over concerns about Drabinski\u2019s Marxism and the political agenda of the ALA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ALA president, Emily Drabinski, remains firm in her &#8220;Marxist&#8221; beliefs despite Republican lawmakers&#8217; increasing opposition towards the association. Drabinski, a self-proclaimed &#8220;Marxist lesbian,&#8221; assumed the presidency in July. As the largest nonprofit trade organization for libraries, the ALA has been actively countering various initiatives using its influential position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":1993716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1993715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993715","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\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1993715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1993716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1993715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1993715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1993715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}