Parent appeals to library to remove child’s book

GregS* says:

The Difference Re:Oh, for Chris’ sake!
I don’t agree with this women’s complaint

However, its not and never has been a question of the easily offended. When the majority is offended it is not unreasonable to take some action.

Jumping to the extreme on either side is counterproductive.

GregS* says:

Re:Hell Must’ve Just Frozen over
Probably a good thing I left off the “its the anti-gun/anti-2nd ammendement community’s fault” comment then.

GregS* says:

What? Re:The Difference Re:Oh, for Chris’ sake!
I justify them because I believe them. If Blake wants me off he’s free to say so. I invested my time and money in setting up my own site for a reason. LISnews however offers a more interactive environment and I’ve certainly taken advantage of it. But I don’t pretend to believe that I am *entitled* to be here.

And again, and again, and yet again at no time have I advocated the complete banning of a viewpoint with the exception to porn.

I don’t doubt I’ve offended a fair number of people. But I haven’t done it by swearing, I don’t think I’ve done it by belittling or name calling. This is the world as I see it and *no one has made arguements against some of the beliefs I’ve stated*. No one has argued the benefits of scholarships based on race. No one has argued the benefit of the MLS. No one has explained why reading is a right but not a responsibility. All of you are so locked into your assumptions you simply dismiss mine as radical. Has it occurred to any of you that since my guy is actually in the white house that maybe just maybe there is a large percentage of the population that actually agrees with me and that if a large majority of librarians don’t, that in itself is possible problem?

I apologize for the rant, the bottom line is if Blake wants to ask me to go, I’m gone.

GregS* says:

The Laundry List
1. a.We’ll never know who won the popular vote. California and other states do not count mail-in votes if it doesn’t affect the outcome. Meaning Gore won big enough in California that over a million votes didn’t have to be counted because it wouln’t have affected the outcome *in that state* but may have affected a national tally.

b. Mid-term elections that followed swung to the right. A clear sign of support.

2. Wealth and politics do not go hand-in-hand. There are plenty of poor conservatives (like me) and rich liberals to refute any such an arguement. The idea that academics forego a higher paycheck for the sake of higher thought assumes they would turn down a higher check if offered or that they would be capable of earning a higher check if so inclined. My view on why academics and librarians are heavily liberal is because they, in general, are heavy with reading skills and light on social skills and very little experience in the real world. (now thats a flamer)

3. Your explanation on scholarships based on race does not explain why asians can kick academic butt but blacks and hispanics need help. My explanation to that would be that asians have a very solid family structure and since they receive very little help are incredibly self-reliant. Probably another flamer. Let me add I’m not really interested in race, I’ll say what I said on my site, another 50 years and we’ll be a nation of mutts, a good thing btw.

4. The right vs responsibility concerns the Patriot Act and the ability of law enforcement to check library records in general.

These are long posts covering mutltiple topics, if you want to hash out each one inidvidually as they come up in the news thats fine. If you want to take on all of them in email thats fine too but tying traffic here on all these topics is a bit of a waste.

GregS* says:

Re:The Laundry List
In reference to Clinton, he did win the electoral college and he also didn’t win a majority of the vote. I don’t and didn’t expect either to conform their agendas to make everyone happy. Leading means making certain people unhappy. Bush understands that, Clinton didn’t.

The point to my original reference to Bush is that you guys need to stop being shocked that there are conservative librarians not that you have to agree with what I say.

“Finally, nowhere did I say that all conservatives are rich or that liberals are poor. If I was unclear, let me rephrase: you don’t get rich in public service or academia. Therefore, people who regard wealth as a virtue don’t enter these fields as often as people who are willing to sacrifice wealth in order to serve. There are exceptions, of course, but in the main, this lends itself to a lot of liberals becoming librarians, teachers, professors, social workers, and the like.”

And people say I’m inflammatory? “Wealth as a virtue”? Where do you get this stuff? Do you know who sees wealth as a virtue? Ted Kennedy. Conservatives see wealth as something that happens, usually as a sign of success. But if they are successful its because they see initiative, imagination, and a load of hard work as virtues. Rumsfield is a very wealthy man and certainly someone who deserves a peaceful retirement. If I had been him in the Pentagon when the plane hit it I certainly would have considered that a good enough sign to settle down and enjoy what life I had left. He didn’t, thank God he didn’t, and wealth was not the reason. And before anyone says “power”, where is the power in sitting in front of a bunch of self-impressed senators, listening to them whine and snipe?