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the arkansas times says she's married to one stephen "le pol face" meeks, a republican state representative

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

yea

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Silent majority, but for some reason these libraries aren’t already stocked with bibles and right-wing apologia think-about-it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I hate the silent majority shtick. I wish they’d shut the fuck up and get out of my way

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

For being a silent majority they sure are an annoying small minority

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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!!!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

This lady figured out how to hand out books for free but only in the most spiteful way possible. American evangelicals are something else.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How about "My little arsenal" and it's a box of free guns for the homeless and poor.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

"silent majority" damn I wish you would shut the fuck up already!!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Welp, time to go clear out some Bibles from the local little libraries

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

whether or not she's doing it, she's 100% asking other people to do it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wanna kick this lady in the teeth

sicko-power

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

there's a group of leftists [...] but I shouldn't go there.

Good. We should make people like these afraid to be hateful in public.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

You have not found needles in little free libraries Jenny stop lying

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.”

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Stealing food from the homeless and education from children! So Christlike

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

She may have added a few needles; chuds be wildin'.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I was going to joke about replacing all the Bibles with Korans, but then I realized that it'd probably trigger a wave of anti-muslim hate crimes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Could always replace them with Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft! Us Wiccan people are fairly decentralized. It's not like there's a temple or anything we gather at. There are the metaphysical shops though...

I feel like the people who would get mad about it would also be ignorant enough to be too worried about getting cursed to do anything about it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Wicca

Aradia, Gospel of the Witches was an influential text on Wicca that talks about using magic to wage class war 👀

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Maybe this is a job for the Church of Satan as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

They would probably have a hay day with this but I think most of these are personal property. The Church of Satan is more of a state and national politics group. And what are they going to do? Say that you have to represent religious beliefs that you disagree with on your own property?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Would probably be fine tbh. Not sure how a coordinated prank on that level could be so impactful.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I've seen these but they are next to churches and filled with bible stuff, she could obviously just help build one outside her church, but that's not the point gotta stop all the children from reading the da vinci code and whatever other hail-seitan demonic airport literature fills those things

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

i am mentioning for no particular reason that this is one of those stand your ground states

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

silent majority

spits

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Imagine being married to a politician at the state level and the best way you can think to change society is going around town and stocking bibles.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Usually the books they have suck (Colleen Hoover type bad), but one time someone put the full Scott Pilgrim comic collections in a little library near me. Super fun reads and I returned them all afterwards ofc. Also found a good horror novel once. Wish they had good shit more often but you'll find it if you keep looking

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

While we're all here, what are some good cheap agitprop books to put in these? My area is largely conservative so something that blends in among the Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck shit and has a chance of getting through to a chud.

Has anyone written a disguised leftist book targeting american conservatives?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Blackshirts and Reds maybe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

could probably get small cheap copies of the manifesto

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