The library director at a tiny municipal library in Idaho’s northernmost Boundary County has resigned after gun toting MAGA types showed up at her home and at library board meetings, demanding that she ban a book on gender identity that her library does not even shelve.
Sounds about right, Christo-fascists all riled up about a book they have not read, and demanding it be banned from a small library that has probably never even entertained offering it anyway.
America 2022, folks.
The ever vigilant Ron Filipowski posted an interview with her on Twitter:
A librarian at an ID public library has resigned, their insurance company has canceled them as too high risk, and board meetings moved next to the sheriff’s office after people continued to show up with guns and bibles threatening them to ban books.
But don’t call us fascists! pic.twitter.com/uFi8MLvusI
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) September 3, 2022
More on Ron’s followers’ and their responses to come, but here is a link to an article in Route Fifty News for added context.
“A small town library board meeting isn’t the kind of local government convening where most Americans would expect to come across violent threats, prayer vigils or the blare of a ritual musical horn.
But this is all part of what Kimber Glidden encountered as administrator of the Boundary County Library in Bonners Ferry, Idaho. Glidden, who took the job in December, announced her resignation last week. She chose to step down after several months of tension with community members who are concerned about books featuring LGBTQ storylines, descriptions of sex and violence, and other topics they consider objectionable, finding a place on the library’s shelves…
… In a somewhat odd twist, the library never held the book that ignited the controversy. The same goes for dozens of other titles that conservative activists are opposed to public libraries carrying. Boundary County Library did not own them, according to Glidden. “If it was really about banning books, we’d have to have the books,” she told Route Fifty in an interview this week…
… Boundary County is located in a largely rural area at the northern tip of Idaho’s panhandle and is home to about 12,500 residents. The recent controversy surrounding the library there all started with one local parent and one book, according to Glidden. In February, the parent approached her asking if the library had “Gender Queer: A Memoir” by Maia Kobabe. The library did not have that title, but the parent was concerned that it could potentially acquire the book in the future.“
Ms. Gladden resigned after local book banning gun enthusiasts, as Ron stated, forced library board meetings to be moved next to the sheriff’s office for safety, and her own home was threaten by the same, for the thought crime of maybe, someday, potentially…stocking a book that almost certainly no one in the county of 12,500 souls had read.
Sheesh.
Ron’s followers responded appropriately:
Hmm 🤔 I wonder if these people recognize far more information, images, videos are available w/internet searches. I don’t understand the end goal. Libraries are wonderful. In the end it’s the seeker of information choice of selected material. If kids want info they’ll get it.
— Troy Henry (@EnergiStorm) September 3, 2022
Exactly Troy. They would ban the book universally, though, if they could, but this isn’t really about banning a book, it is performance outrage for their FaceBook homepages.
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So, is it fair to say the greater the MAGA might in any given state correlates directly to an undereducated populace?
If so, this is the long-cycle result of Reaganism.
— Max America (@MaxAmerica___) September 3, 2022
America is officially unrecognizable.
— Vikki Isted (@VikkiIsted) September 3, 2022
Large swaths of it anyway, Vikki. And it will probably just get worse.
And every inquiry into their actions and behavior is deemed a “witch hunt”. Any bets as to which side advocates bringing back burning at the stake or lynching first???
— Abe’s Favorite Axe (@AxeAbe) September 3, 2022
Yup
Irony is I have to wonder how much these community members actually read anyway, prior to all these banned book concerns.
— Carol Hafner for Congress (@VoteHafner) September 3, 2022
Beyond a fast food menu or a bible tract probably not much.
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You are approaching this scenario… pic.twitter.com/AyZW7UVJ8t
— Tiny Hogg 🏴 (@codominium55) September 3, 2022
We have a bingo!
Trump loves the uneducated and ID is full of them. I know because I live here. pic.twitter.com/2xdqeaS0hy
— Diane McKenna (@DianeMcKenna20) September 3, 2022
Next these nut cases will be wanting to ban Huckleberry Finn…
..oh, wait!
I hope the librarian moves to a state having a population capable of thinking. She certainly isn’t living in such a place right now.
One more thought: should this asininity spread throughout ID do not expect any of the schools in ID, or other red states with this problem, to graduate students able to study medicine, engineering, science, or any other curriculum requiring any cogent thought whatsoever. I direct you to KS after they stopped teaching evolution to their students.
I wonder what it will take to stop these rampaging fools from terrorizing the country?
Didn’t know those yokels could read at all.
gender queer is a graphic novel so I guess they could just look at the pictures.
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They’ll read the verse of the week at bible study. But there won’t be any context to it.
BREAKING NEWS: Well-Regulated book banning MAGA GOP threatens librarian; Cheap Thoughts And Useless Prayers Now Being Rushed To The Scene … more on this soon-to-be-forgotten-and-then-repeated story as it develops…
Ahh yes, the Fundamentalist Fascisti strike again – after all, doesn’t one of their biblical heroes refuse to let the men of Sodom have his male guests – but offers them his two virgin daughters instead.
The same two daughters, by the way, he also had sex with and fathered their children.
So, by their own bible bashing beliefs, being ‘queer’ is a terrible thing but gang rape and incest are perfectly acceptable. That is, presuming they actually READ the book they base all theit claims on (presuming they actually CAN read to begin with)
The MAGAts and Q-Nuts doing these terrorist acts are the modern version of the NAZI party! Look at history, and see who in the past banned and burned books that they didn’t like!!
Darwin’s Waiting Room
You’re wait time is undetermined.