Hey everybody, this is James Lindsay and you are listening to the new Discourses podcast.

This is going to be an important episode, I think. I want to address the problem in our libraries

and the American Library Association in particular, but to do that, I want to give you a little bit

of news before I dive into what we're going to do, although I'm going to go through a 16-page paper,

so I don't want to take too much time doing this. The first thing I want to say, though, is that if

you don't know that the American Library Association is run by a openly queer Marxist, and I don't

mean queer as a sexual disposition, though that might be true, I mean queer in that she is a queer

theorist, a queer activist, then you need to know that. And so if you don't understand that there's

a major problem, if you want to know why so many of the problems in our libraries, why do they keep

having these inappropriate books? Why do they fight so hard to keep them there? Well, a lot of

the reason is, in many cases, the American Library Association, the way that libraries make decisions

is that they have people that recommend books for their catalog, and certain ones they refuse to

get books from. You could imagine if like some kind of like neo-Nazi outfits until list of books,

you should put these in a library, they wouldn't listen. Simultaneously, they have other people that they

will basically buy all the books carte blanche, they don't necessarily vet them or look at them at all,

and the American Library Association is actually kind of one of those. And so what we have happening

in the world right now is that states, starting with Montana, and now at least Idaho and some

others, are starting to look at separating officially in terms of finances, in terms of

activity from the American Library Association entirely, which is very exciting. The state of

Montana has voted officially, the State Library Commission of Montana, has voted officially to

break off of the ALA, especially financially, no more money going to the ALA. So the American

Library Association is getting, frankly, what's long overdue and deserved, but their justification

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