President Higgins said those who intimidate library staff and tear up books “hide behind the mask of ‘protester’, but must be called out for what they are: vigilantes attempting to censor, some of whom are committing criminal offences”.
He said libraries were increasingly special places, “one of the last remaining public spaces to have been spared commodification, where there is no requirement to spend money or purchase anything in order to spend time or be welcomed there”, while their staff “created an atmosphere so conducive for intellectual curiosity for generations of Irish children, women and men”.
Bang on the money.
Scummy loons
Fucksakes, can Helen and Drew accept that the “hands off approach” doesn’t work and actually do something? Fucking book burners in 2024, Christ.
Is this because of all the woke nonsense going on stateside? I don’t recall ever seeing anyone upset over books in a library in the 30+ years I’ve been using them. Fuck the people importing that shit over here.
Wild. What specific LGBT topics are being targeted? Guessing it’s about gender stuff?
The Irish government along with the EU have censored numerous news sites just in the last year. The hypocrisy of this demented ferret speaking against censorship is laughable.
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The first time any of these pr*cks have stepped into a library
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre
If you were wondering why conservatives always yell censorship while being hypocritical , they don’t care , they’re just playing a
fucked up game, the hypocrisy is all par of the Fun.
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Can someone name the far right people/person who tore up the library books in Cork?
Its easy to have a knee jerk reaction but tbh some of the shit you see in these books are not suitable for children yet they still want to push it for Children. You can watch videos of parents reading out the school books at school meetings and the teachers boards telling them to stop because its not appropriate.
This aul book banning shite is coming from crackpots in the states
Yes, we know. If you asked for some policing response that might be more useful.
He also had a dig at the Neanderthal councillor talking about “breeding” and got very animated talking about the far right anti immigrant lunatics
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Quote from Irish Times
President Higgins said those who intimidate library staff and tear up books “hide behind the mask of ‘protester’, but must be called out for what they are: vigilantes attempting to censor, some of whom are committing criminal offences”.
He said libraries were increasingly special places, “one of the last remaining public spaces to have been spared commodification, where there is no requirement to spend money or purchase anything in order to spend time or be welcomed there”, while their staff “created an atmosphere so conducive for intellectual curiosity for generations of Irish children, women and men”.
Bang on the money.
Scummy loons
Fucksakes, can Helen and Drew accept that the “hands off approach” doesn’t work and actually do something? Fucking book burners in 2024, Christ.
Is this because of all the woke nonsense going on stateside? I don’t recall ever seeing anyone upset over books in a library in the 30+ years I’ve been using them. Fuck the people importing that shit over here.
Wild. What specific LGBT topics are being targeted? Guessing it’s about gender stuff?
The Irish government along with the EU have censored numerous news sites just in the last year. The hypocrisy of this demented ferret speaking against censorship is laughable.
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The first time any of these pr*cks have stepped into a library
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre
If you were wondering why conservatives always yell censorship while being hypocritical , they don’t care , they’re just playing a
fucked up game, the hypocrisy is all par of the Fun.
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Can someone name the far right people/person who tore up the library books in Cork?
Its easy to have a knee jerk reaction but tbh some of the shit you see in these books are not suitable for children yet they still want to push it for Children. You can watch videos of parents reading out the school books at school meetings and the teachers boards telling them to stop because its not appropriate.
This aul book banning shite is coming from crackpots in the states
Yes, we know. If you asked for some policing response that might be more useful.
He also had a dig at the Neanderthal councillor talking about “breeding” and got very animated talking about the far right anti immigrant lunatics