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Mar 18 2021

Critical Race Theory Applied Through Library Science

Every aspect of academia has been mobilized to apply critical race theory toward incrementally eradicating Western Civilization. This includes library science:

The University of Pennsylvania’s Carey Law School hosted a panel event called “Decolonizing the Stacks,” which provided examples of eliminating bias and discrimination from its library systems.

When leftist say they are eliminating bias and discrimination, they mean they are imposing bias and discrimination in favor of the identity groups they choose to elevate.

The event was part of Penn Carey Law’s thirteenth annual public interest week, dubbed “Reforming the Nation: Working Towards Racial Justice.”

“Racial justice” is a euphemism for critical race theory, a twisted outgrowth of postmodern posturing that is to Caucasians what Nazism was to Jews.

Amanda Runyon — moderator of the panel and Associate Dean and Director of Biddle Law Library (pictured [here]) — opened the discussion by defining “decolonizing libraries” as “the process of de-centering whiteness and being more inclusive to voices of color and voices representing diverse perspectives.” She encouraged fellow librarians to consider the impact of their “centering of White, Western norms.”

In the olden days, libraries were repositories of culture and information. Now, they are repositories of cultural vandalism and racist (I mean “antiracist”) propaganda.

She stated that librarians can work to change the way that they represent information, as current indexing systems “are inherently biased and centered on the perspectives of white people, Christians, heterosexuals, and males.” Therefore, she says that the language used by these systems “obscures and silences” marginalized people.

Those purporting to speak for “marginalized” people have been anything but silent lately. But if math can be racist and in need of decolonization, the same goes for library indexing systems.

Runyon paraphrased an article arguing that the formation of the Library of Congress’s indexing system inherently privileges the thought processes of people who think according to its categories.

To combat whiteness, we must base indexing systems on those used in the great libraries of precolonial sub-Saharan Africa.

“We cannot remain neutral about these systems, as neutrality is an implicit endorsement of the system,” she said.

That’s what the campus slogan “Silence is violence” means. It is no longer enough to keep your politically incorrect thoughts to yourself. You must shout leftist rhetoric and convince others that you mean it, or you will be canceled.

Rebecca Stuhr — Director for Academic Engagement and Librarian for Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania — explained the school’s work to build libraries “truly representative of our society and the world.”

That quote is libspeak for marginalizing groups liberals don’t like: Caucasians, men, heterosexuals, Christians, et cetera.

For instance, the university established Black and Latino library collections; because the books’ spines were color-coded, students could “see the meaningful impact they had on the library.”

Postmodern thought dictates that the individual and the universal are to be devalued. All that matters is the identity group, and whether it is an “oppressed” identity group that should be elevated or an “oppressor” identity group that should be abolished. Therefore, it doesn’t matter what is in a book or who wrote it. All that matters is the identity group of the person who wrote it.

The color coding will come in handy when it comes time to remove books written by members of “oppressor” identity groups. It won’t be called book burning. It will be called “decolonization.”

On a tip from Stormfax.


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