What Shutting Down Libraries Means about Authoritarianism
Per this story:(Here’s a photo of) the children’s section in Patmos Library in Jamestown, Michigan. Local citizens voted to defund it in Nov., after it refused to ban all LGBTQ+ books. Now a local politician has suggested shutting down the library “by force.”
As sad and frightening as this is, there is an element of humor to it. Shutting down a library by force? How much actual force does that require? Are librarians typically armed? Are they normally trained in the martial arts?
