the arkansas times says she’s married to one stephen “le pol face” meeks, a republican state representative
silent majority
is a minority that constantly screams “we’re going to genocide you” at my queer siblings in the US at the top of their lungs
Silent majority, but for some reason these libraries aren’t already stocked with bibles and right-wing apologia
Depends on the library. I worked at one over 10 years ago and there was a low intensity battle between the head librarian (a cool former hippy guy with a pleasant demeanor) and the city appointed nepotism hire head of library resources (a bitter racist lady who was an open young earth creationist).
Since the resources lady was married to some city official, she had more away on her side to completely remove stuff from our science section. She kept removing stuff about black history too. Right when I was leaving she was having a fight, that she framed in terms of grant money, to install an explicitly evangelical wing of the library complete with a Bible study corner and regular visits from her preacher.
We had a more normal Bible study group that would meet on Wednesdays and even they were against her. America sucks.
I hate the silent majority shtick. I wish they’d shut the fuck up and get out of my way
For being a silent majority they sure are an annoying small minority
those “Little Free Libraries” are usually virtue signalling used in racist petite bourgeois suburbs
“The Free Little Library” was never intended to actually provide books to those who need them, but to give affluent neighborhoods a homey, quirky, intellectual, benevolent aesthetic.
In Denver, the same neighborhoods that have them are the ones that vote to make it illegal for homeless people to exist, because they don’t like the idea of homeless people being near their homes.
This has been an issue in Denver for YEARS, and yet the same neighborhoods that vote for these bans have SO many Free Little Libraries.
THEY LIVE IS A DOCUMENTARY 👁️
I bet nazis had something similar, extremely soy attempt at resolving the contradictions of class society. Literary Karens are just as disgusting as any illiterate fascists!!!
https://hexbear.net/post/132586 iconic bmf post
Funnily enough, the top comment in there seems perfectly analogous to this Arkansas nutter replacing all the books with Bibles
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different if you own the fridge, vs vandalizing a library that someone else installed and maintains. It would be dumb but you could run your own Christian Little Free Library without fucking up other people’s efforts
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Yesterday I saw my local Love Fridge has recently put up rules for what you can donate, forbidding raw meat. I once talked to a vegan homeless woman using the fridge who said she had a hard time getting food. The limiting factor for these things is often fridge space, and I think rules like that are helpful to make the fridges accessible to everyone. Sometimes you have to remove, e.g., the one hundred quarts of strawberries that someone has donated to make room for more widely useful food*. In the same way, if the fridge had a “no peanut/dairy/sesame/etc” poster I would expect such things to be removed as part of the regular cleaning of the fridge. (As a practical matter, my guess is the new Love Fridge rules were motivated by people putting raw meat in there and leaking on the other stuff.)
*Because the fridges are often overflow from local food distribution charities. Problem always seems to be uneven distribution. If you want a pallet of this one week, a pallet of that the next week, you can get it for free and give it to the needy. But who wants to live off pre-sliced fruit one week and marinara sauce the next week? If you want a consistent amount of good food for people to eat a balanced diet off of, you have to buy it at the grocery store or have a huge intake network to spread out all the weird donations.
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What a specious argument. These neighborhoods also have milk in them. Does that make all neighborhoods with milk racist? These things also exist in every major city, look around.
(since you’re not from around here, I’ll explain that this user is referencing an ongoing joke on this server)
How about “My little arsenal” and it’s a box of free guns for the homeless and poor.
My little arsenal, stocked with little Armalites!
Been wanting to do this but with the Communist Manifesto. I’m sure I could find some cheap small prints. I just don’t have the money right now.
I literally used to do that, but with Principles of Communism. Free printing at school, propaganda drop during my afternoon walk
You have not found needles in little free libraries Jenny stop lying
i’ve worked at a more typical kind of library and we’ve handed out needles before. Some cities do it as initiatives to reduce needle sharing and curb HIV and hepatitis. I could believe some library boxes have needle kits.
actually
A coalition spokesperson wasn’t sure about the needles Meeks referenced, but said the “opioid overdose kits that we regularly put in the pantries do include needles in them.”
Stealing food from the homeless and education from children! So Christlike
This type of person only hears the parts of Christianity which puff them up and tell them they deserve power. The lust for power is what causes most of our issues.
She may have added a few needles; chuds be wildin’.
Reading some of these comments you’d think they build little free libraries by dismantling actual libraries, I think some of you could stand to take it down a notch
I wanna kick this lady in the teeth
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lmao she’s a legislator’s wife!
Legislator says wife’s post about Little Free Libraries was misconstrued
State Rep. Stephen Meeks said today that his wife’s Facebook post about swapping Little Free Library books was misconstrued and “blown completely out of proportion. She’s not removing books that she disagrees with and does not advocate … that anybody else do that,” Meeks, a Republican from Greenbrier, said. We reported Monday that Jennifer Meeks had posted on Facebook recently that she was replacing books that don’t match her own religious values. According to Stephen Meeks, though, that’s not true.
Meeks said his wife’s Facebook post was misconstrued by “a leftist, activist group” and resulted in “a complete lie” that’s now “going all over Facebook.” Meeks said his wife has not been taking LGBTQ Pride material and “is not advocating that anybody take any of the Pride material unless they want to” and then “not for nefarious reasons.”
Rather, Meeks said, his wife is adding Christian-related books as well as history, science and other books. Sometimes, she will remove a worn-out history book, for example, and replace it with one in better condition, he said. “The point that she was trying to make is that she saw the Pride material in there. As Christians, it would be a good opportunity that we too should be stocking those resources with Bibles, devotionals, things like that,” Meeks said. “In other words, we want to give people more choice, and I think everybody would agree that having more choice is a good thing.”
Meeks said his wife did not want to discuss the matter. The Faulkner County Coalition for Social Justice recently took Jennifer Meeks to task for her Facebook comments and reposted a screenshot of her post along with its own statement. (The original Facebook post is not public due to privacy settings.) You can read the coalition’s post, which includes Jennifer Meeks’ original comments below.
whether or not she’s doing it, she’s 100% asking other people to do it
This lady figured out how to hand out books for free but only in the most spiteful way possible. American evangelicals are something else.
Satanic Bibles, right…?These things are usually full of conservative, religious nonsense. I gotta drop off some marxist/anarchist stuff, and maybe some solid SF I could stand to offload.
“silent majority” damn I wish you would shut the fuck up already!!
Welp, time to go clear out some Bibles from the local little libraries
