The Texas State Library & Archives Commission (TSLAC) is reportedly leaving the American Library Association (ALA) over its blatant Marxism, and all thanks to the actions of Texas state Rep. Brian Harrison, a Republican.
“Less than one month after I requested the Texas State Library & Archives Commission to cut ties with the American Library Association, I am excited to report that they just informed me they will not renew their contract with them!” Harrison announced in a statement Thursday afternoon.
“This is a win for all Texans, and I applaud the courageous and decisive decision by Chairwoman Martha Wong. Texas should be leading the fight against dangerous Marxist ideology – not subsidizing it with my constituents’ hard earned tax dollars. I’ll continue fighting to protect Texans from having their money weaponized against them, their values, and their children,” he added.
BREAKING: Texas State Library & Archives Commission just informed me they will leave the American Library Association!
I asked them last month to cut ties after electing a radical socialist and self-described “Marxist lesbian” as President.
Huge win! Full Statement#txlege pic.twitter.com/OLGsyWFMuj
— Brian Harrison (@brianeharrison) August 17, 2023
This move comes roughly a month after Harrison wrote a letter to Wong, the commissioner, asking her to cut ties with the ALA for electing a socialist and “Marxist lesbian” as president.
“I have been made aware that the American Library Association (ALA) has elected Emily Drabinski, a self-proclaimed ‘Marxist lesbian’ and member of the Democratic Socialists of America as President. This shocking information has caused the Montana State Library Commission to leave the ALA and has led state legislators across the country to demand their Commissions do the same,” the letter reads.
“Taxpayer funded indoctrination has no place in Texas, yet Ms. Drabinski has promised to radicalize the ALA to ‘advance a public agenda that puts organizing for justice at the center of library work.’ In 2013, she published a paper entitled, ‘Queering the Catalog: Queer Theory and the Politics of Correction,’ where she explicitly opposes library neutrality in favor of forcing librarians to become ‘politically engaged’ from a ‘queer perspective.'”
Her ideology has led to tangible consequences, such as the ALA “fighting to keep pornographic materials in public libraries.”
By “pornographic materials,” Harrison meant books like “Gender Queer” that expose young children to sexually inappropriate content.
RT @edrabinski:
I 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. I am so excited for what we will do together. Solidarity!
And my mom is SO PROUD I… pic.twitter.com/irCyO5wjDZ
— Dan Kleinman of SafeLibraries® (@SexHarassed) May 5, 2023
During her run for ALA president in 2022, Drabinski boasted a page on her website that went into further detail about her radical ideology.
“So many of us find ourselves at the ends of our worlds. The consequences of decades of unchecked climate change, class war, white supremacy, and imperialism have led us here. If we want a world that includes public goods like the library, we must organize our collective power and wield it,” the page read.
It continued by calling for enhanced funding to “schools, libraries, and communities, economic and racial justice for library workers and the communities in which we live and work, environmental sustainability, and collaboration and cooperation beyond our borders.”
The platform was also full of left-wing buzzwords like “equity” and “economic justice”: “Social and economic justice and racial equity requires that we make a material difference in the lives of library workers and patrons who have for too long been denied power and opportunity on the basis of race, gender, sexuality, national origin, spoken language, and disability.”
The platform even indirectly referenced the Green New Deal.
“Floods, hurricanes, wildfires, and other consequences of climate change threaten libraries, library workers, and library publics around the world. We must build on recent association work in this area and connect to broader public legislation in order to preserve libraries and communities for an uncertain future,” it stated.
This is Emily Drabinski, president of the American Library Association. She’s a self-avowed Marxist, talking about how to organize to keep pornographic books in your children’s hands.
I talk about @EDrabinski in my book. pic.twitter.com/9JTHXfxGWp
— Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) July 23, 2023
The move by the TSLAC likewise comes a month after the Montana State Library Commission voted to also leave the ALA over similar complaints.
“In his motion to ‘immediately withdraw’ the state library from the association, commissioner Tom Burnett directed that a letter be sent to the ALA explaining that ‘our oath of office and resulting duty to the Constitution forbids association with an organization led by a Marxist,'” the Montana Free Press reported at the time.
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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