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Despite the fact that librarians are among the most trusted professionals, per data acquired in several studies of parents on the perceptions of the profession, lawmakers across the country continue to infantilize and criminalize library workers.
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Louisiana continues these efforts in an ongoing move by politicians in the state to damage public libraries with House Bill 777. HB 777 was introduced March 25 by Representative Kellee Dickerson, who helped fund the Louisiana Freedom Caucus. The bill would criminalize library workers and libraries for joining the American Library Association.
the 1956 film Storm Centre is about a city trying to force a librarian to remove communist books, it's on youtube if anyone's interested
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=033KVFJw_OU
I enjoyed it enough to accidentally watch the whole thing a few years ago, but I think it ends with a bit of a 'people should be able to read the commie books so they know they're wrong'
the point is this culture war shit never changes