@petersuber I would imagine the individuals would also have to pay fines or pay for the book they threatened to return and likely lose library privileges. 🙃 They would then have bought the book!
@petersuber@marthawells What was even the logic behind that threat? Like, how is "removing the books" any different from the library's POV than "the right-wingers keep the books"? o.O
@petersuber Thank you for sharing this article. Minor correction, I'm reading this as the city matched the $15k given by citizens with another $15k providing a total of over $30k. It is heartbreaking to read that there are people trying to break libraries and heartwarming to read that people are protecting the libraries.
This is what #MAGARepublicans have become. Breaking the law and violating the 1st Amendment to further force their repressive discrimitory religious blind faith agenda on the rest of us. They are literally choosing to be criminals rather than just live and let live.
It's truly pitiful. And why I will always #VoteBlue
(I support journalists getting paid, however the New York Times has had a number of controversies in the past, and not everyone has the disposable income to pay for the access)
@petersuber At my work library, if something isn't returned after 3 notices the patron is billed and their account is blocked. If it's similar there, win-win: shiny new copies of those books + fewer bigoted selfish patrons!
@petersuber Book-banners and book-burners are one of the lowest forms of miscreants. The fact that they can mentally justify banning books to themselves says a lot about what intellectual level they are playing at.
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Just think...this was just TWO people ...
Their mouths are louder than the people that believe in human rights.
This needs to be reversed....put the racists and homophobes back under the rock Donald Trump lifted to let them out .
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