Auckland Libraries must resist woke book purge
Ummmm. Come on, we aren’t going to have book purges here are we?
Auckland Libraries say there are no plans to get rid of ‘transphobic’ books
Auckland Council libraries have stated there is no plan to pull two “transphobic” books which describe being transgender as a mental illness, despite complaints.
The books in question are Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing our Daughters by Abigail Shrier and When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment by Ryan T. Anderson.
The complaints came in the wake of Mighty Ape choosing to pull the books after a number of people who are transgender complained.
A private book retailer is allowed to decide what it sells and doesn’t sell, but a public library has an obligation to provide the books, not ban them.
We aren’t really going to fight over not banning books in a library are we?
Come on?
We can’t be at the ‘banning books at the public library’ stage of schism can we?
I get the feeling that a Woke vetted library would be very sparse. Like a Taliban Art Museum.
Let’s all take a deep breath and agree banning books at the public library is a step any civil society should choose to avoid, not actively participate in.
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“Excuse me, do you have Fahrenheit 451?”
Do libraries stock mein kampf? If so I guess we should at least be consistent. If not, why is some hate speech permitted but not others?
The books in question are not hate speech. eg:
https://www.amazon.com/Irreversible-Damage-Transgender-Seducing-Daughters-ebook/dp/B07YL6XK55 – well researched and an important critique of a controversial topic.
Just because some people subscribing to the authoritarian genderist ideology claim it’s hate speech doesn’t make it so. Maybe try reading the books to see?
But, yes, Auckland Libraries does stock Mein Kampf. In fact, it has it in more than one English translation. eg https://discover.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3238958__Smein%20kampf__Orightresult__U__X7?lang=eng&suite=def
That’s all well and good then. It does seem non-sensical to permit one without permitting the other. As to whether or not they are hate speech or not, maybe that’s too harsh a term. Perhaps, “misinformed” and “dangerous” would be more apt. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/political-minds/202012/new-book-irreversible-damage-is-full-misinformation
Well, you can’t fault them for consistency. Maybe hate speech is going too far, “misinformed” and “dangerous” would be more apt. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/political-minds/202012/new-book-irreversible-damage-is-full-misinformation
Well, that review has it’s share of misinformation eg some stats are much higher on the amount of young people who desist from IDing as the opposite sex. Interviewing some detransitioners would be helpful. There needs to be far more research in to that. But testimonies from many detrans people available online are pretty sobering. https://www.detransvoices.org/
There are plenty of detransitioners speaking out. And a few therapists, too who have worked with young detransitioners.
Hard line genderists always disagree with any criticisms of their views, no matter how much the criticisms are backed up by solid research – especially in the US, which doesn’t have a public health service. There’s a lot of money gained by medical corporations and businesses wthat provide transgender services. It’s a very lucrative business. And there are some US billionaires with interests in big Pharma, funding gender ideology and trans organisations.
Genderism is a neoliberal US-led movement.
Helen Joyce’s new book: “Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality”, I think includes loads of interviews, including with some detransitioners.
https://www.amazon.com/Trans-When-Ideology-Meets-Reality-ebook/dp/B08XQYMWVQ
…& thus were born the seeds of the new book burnings in the public square. Once the left opposed censorship, now they are practitioners?
Agree totally, Martyn. And I’m very pleased to see that Auckland Libraries is resisting the demands for censorship by a very vocal and empowered minority.
Auckland Libraries is part of Auckland Council, and answerable to the elected representatives.
Auckland Council is one of several public organisations that have signed up to Rainbow Tick. Rainbow Tick is essentially a lobby group, run on business lines. In order to get the Rainbow Tick the organisation signs up to all Rainbow Tick’s lobbying demands, and pays for the ‘privilege’ to carry a Rainbow Tick.
https://www.rainbowtick.nz/#org
No public organisation should be beholden to such political lobby groups.
These days, Rainbow organisations are dominated by genderism – hence the State Services Commission (now Public Service Commission) is demanding employees put pronouns in their bios and email signatures. Any LGBT and even some T people, who object to the sex and biological denialism of genderism, are excluded from most Rainbow organisations. They don’t accept any criticisms. It’s anti-democratic.