Mon Aug 14, 2023 – 5:04 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – A self-described “Marxist lesbian” who is now in charge of the American Library Association (ALA) says she regrets the controversy caused by touting the label when she rose to the position but continues to embrace identifying with an ideology responsible for more than 100 million deaths across the 20th century.
In April 2022, the ALA elected Emily Drabinski its latest president. At the time, Focus on the Family’s Daily Citizen reported that she celebrated the news in a since-deleted tweet declaring, “I just cannot believe that a Marxist lesbian who believes that collective power is possible to build and can be wielded for a better world is the president-elect of @ALALibrary. I am so excited for what we will do together. Solidarity! And my mom is SO PROUD I love you mom.”
Drabinski, who was previously interim chief librarian and critical pedagogy librarian at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center, campaigned for the role in part by calling for the ALA to be mobilized against what she called the “consequences of decades of unchecked climate change, class war, white supremacy, and imperialism.”
Marxism, which
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