Purely asshole move on the librarian’s part. There’s no other way to describe it.
Oh the places you’ll go! Was given to me as a gift by some of my favorite professors after i won a couple of awards. It was extraordinarily meaningful to me- as it was presented by a beloved mentor during a ceremony where my achievements were recognized.
This is… slightly different. It seems an empty gesture meant to look like this administration gives a good god damn about education, but as it was presented to the highest ranking schools, while actually needy schools were once again left wanting, i can see why the liberian reacted with anger.
I’ll bet she had ZERO to do with choice of schools, books, or anything at all with this entire thing. They just stuck her name on it, and gave her a photo op.
Apparently, The Cat in the Hat is a racist parody of black people.
I wish I was making that up, but the librarian read a book that says so.
Well there is this too. http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/28/living/feat-racist-dr-seuss-drawing/index.html
No wonder the books were rejected.
Dr. Suess for elementary school students in Cambridge, Mass., who have access to a library run by a professional “with a graduate degree in library science”*? Hell, those kids have probably already run through the collected works of Shakespeare and John Stuart Mill.
*no mockery intended; I’m married to one. 
Nice of the librarian to loudly and proudly announce that her school library is adequately funded. I’m sure voters will remember that the next time the school board asks for additional funding, right?
The gift was not just a few books, it was also a moment in the spotlight to raise awareness for school libraries and childhood literacy. The librarian, with all her professional credentials, didn’t seem to see the obvious and grasp the moment in a positive manner.
She probably did. The kind of people who read (are capable of reading) and love books probably also dislike Trump. I bet this is a net positive for libraries, who will soon have a surplus of donated books. It’s not like f she’d kissed Trump’s ass the library would have actually benefitted.
…On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.
The other thread is funnier.
Plus the attention she got from her action meant her brief flickering sorry place in the limelight when otherwise nobody would ever have heard of her.
Just taking the books graciously wouldn’t have been news at all.
I think this librarian acted foolishly. I think she should have accepted the donation and if they were not needed at her school she should have donated them to another. Of course, now we know that she didn’t have the authority to do either of those things, nor to take the action she did. Which means she acted foolishly in acting foolishly.
This is one of my favorite bullshit lines: someone only spoke up about something so they’d be famous.
:rolleyes:
It’s so wonderfully dismissive without needing any evidence at all; in fact, it’s a downright self-reinforcing way to negatively categorize someone (as an attention whore, fame-seeker, etc.), isn’t it, thereby marginalizing their message. I mean, they must have wanted the attention because now they have attention, amirite?
:dubious:
It’s also transparent as hell.
Not really. You are speaking nonsense.
If this person wanted to reject the books for any reason she could have done so without telling everybody. Like most people do.
And I loathe Dr. Seuss and the Trumps.
Well, since this is the pit–the land of petty attacks and insults–may I point out (from the photo at the bottom of the page) that the librarian is approximately 90 percent neck?
What kind of organization does Melanoma have that she didn’t have the situation vetted and know in advance the response she’d have when she gave the books?
Except she didn’t have the authori-tah to reject the books in the first place.
If Fox News doesn’t put Ms. Soeiro on staff, I hope they give her a sizable honorarium for her generous contribution to their cause.
Another person forgetting that she’s supposed to be representing a whole institution and acting on the basis of personal views. I can understand why she’d be pissed off with the Trump administration (like every single teacher I know) but it wasn’t her call to make.
This.
I happen to agree with the librarian’s estimation of Dr. Seuss: he was a big improvement over your typical kiddie lit from 60 years ago, but he hasn’t aged well, IMHO. (Sam-I-Am needs to learn that, fercryinoutloud, ‘no means no,’ and the Cat in the Hat doesn’t give a damn whether the two kids are having fun or not - they’re obviously quite stressed out by everything he does - as long as he is having fun. He’s a real schmuck. And by today’s standards, his books are overly preachy and moralizing.) I’d give the libraries some Julia Donaldson instead.
But still, when you’re given a gift, you don’t say this stuff out loud. You accept the gift graciously (unless it’s something really unacceptable, like a hagiography of Stonewall Jackson), and if you don’t want it, you quietly pass it on to someone who does.
So you admit that the liberal philosophy is totally intellectually bankrupt in each and every manifestation, and that this proves every liberal is hypocritical and dishonest?
I THOUGHT so!
