# Shunning the extreme left **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [June 26, 2007, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shunning-the-extreme-left/409564 "2007-06-26T11:19:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shunning-the-extreme-left/409564/41 "2007-06-27T19:53:04Z")
[QUOTE=elucidator] The irony that never seemed to affect Mr. Carnegie was that is libraries were open during the hours that his employees were at work, and closed when they were not. [/QUOTE] Hey, Carnegie just donated the buildings. Somebody else had to decide on details like the hours of operation. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shunning-the-extreme-left/409564/42 "2007-06-27T19:55:22Z")
True enough, it is hard to define Mr. Carnegie. I recommend \*Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America \*. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shunning-the-extreme-left/409564/43 "2007-06-27T23:02:06Z")
> [@Merijeek](#): > > So, anti-Righty is now anti-American? Um…huh??? What are you talking about? Der Trihs said American’s (left, right and center I assume) have been rolling over all his life…this has to do with anti-Righty whatever, um, how exactly? Or did you not read what I was responding too? -XT [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shunning-the-extreme-left/409564.md?page=2)