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honestly the biggest star trek mindfuck of all is that beverly crusherās gothic sex ghost is also the prime minister of bajor
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Actually, yeah, everyone should have the right to a meal, housing, and the ability to have an income. These shouldnāt be privileges.Ā
In which an angry Republican proves that capitalism is ridiculous as hell
ā¦ These are all literally human rights? I keep seeing stuff like this and. Do people not know about the human rights?
Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
Article 23.
(1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment. (2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work. (3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
(ā¦)
Article 25.
(1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
(and thatās just the basics on that topic, 22 is a good summary and 24 is worth knowing about too, and by the way since itās currently relevant, āNo one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.ā is article 9.)
Friendly reminder the USA have not ratified the Declaration of Basic Human Rights.
When I learned that last fact during my International Law course my first year of law school, I was OUTRAGED.
[mod note] Part of the reason why I do what I do is because the importance of this type of information becoming a part of popular culture and consciousness isnāt theoretical to its survival-itās essential.
In other words, if weāre not talking about it, it can cease to exist for not just you, but other people. Some databases are set up in such a way that āunpopularā material is culled automatically.
I wonāt let this information die.
This is true for people of all marginalizations, in all types of informational and educational curation. How can we prevent a system designed to cull the disenfranchised from our own pages from doing so? How can we make these marginalized histories and non-dominant narratives survive?
These are the questions Iām asking myself as we enter into an increasingly hostile world this year.
An important thing to understand here is that public libraries remove materials based on circulation all the time.There is a finite amount of space on the shelves, new books coming out every year, and in most jurisdictions, declining budgets. The end result is that shit gets removed from the collection. The term for this is not ācullingā, it is weeding. If a book has been on the shelf for the past three years without anyone taking it out, it is exceedingly hard to justify keeping it ā a public library does want to educate people, but theyāre not a university library.
The actual problem with the program being discussed is not that it is removing books based on popularity, it is that it is removing the capacity for library staff to sayĀ āā¦ but itās important we have this book for other reasons.ā At the last library I worked at, we had aĀ āsectionā of books on Mi'kmaq history that was kept in a storage closet in the staff-only part of the building. This was because they circulated poorly and some of them were quite old, and so there had been pressure to get rid of them so that the section of shelf that they used to occupy could be filled with something that would be read more. My bossās boss thought this was unacceptable, though ā that it was important that these books stayed accessible to the public. So as a sort of compromise, they wound up in the back, on a shelf in this closet. Functionally a closed stack ā people could still get them by request.
I mean, like, there is nothing wrong with what youāre actually saying, and Iām not here disagreeing with you, and my anecdote hardly conflicts with your take. Automatic weeding without a compassionate human able to veto it at some point is a bad idea. But the library industry is a thing that people outside of it tend not to actually understand in any meaningful way unless theyāre inside of it, and whenever a story like this comes out, the conversation always turns to the idea that weeding books is bad in of itself, without the context of what is normal or best practice or even necessary for the library to function.Ā
Like, my god,āculling.ā For fuckās sake.
When librarians are moved to create fake patrons, complete with licenses and birthdates, in order to save books; when this leads to a suspended branch supervisor and various other disciplinary actions, yes, the right term to use is āAutomated Cullingā.Ā
Please take note that the situation @imperialgazetteer describes above:
At the last library I worked at, we had a āsectionā of books on Mi'kmaq history that was kept in a storage closet in the staff-only part of the building. This was because they circulated poorly and some of them were quite old, and so there had been pressure to get rid of them so that the section of shelf that they used to occupy could be filled with something that would be read more. My bossās boss thought this was unacceptable, though ā that it was important that these books stayed accessible to the public. So as a sort of compromise, they wound up in the back, on a shelf in this closet. Functionally a closed stack ā people could still get them by request.
Non-white, non-Western History, relegated to a shelf in a staff-only closet.
Native American History, on a shelf, in a staff-only closet.
This is what I am talking about when I say MARGINALIZED. HISTORIES. Itās not just an idea, itās not āTheoryā.
It is physically removing books from shelved labeled āHistoryā, and put into a back closet where patrons can only find them if they
1. already know they are there
2. know that they can ask for them
3. are ABLE to ask for them
4. the employee who is asked for them knows what they are and that they are there.
This is literally institutional pressure to remove history books from the shelf, because even ON THE SHELF people often donāt know theyāre there, they donāt know what to look for, how to ask, or are unable to do so because the library might not be accessible, or they may be unable to be physically present, or know how to ask for them.
Another reason that this is not only āTheoryā: Do you have any idea how much i had to pay, in US American dollars, for the privilege of being taught the history of my own people by a white man?
for an ELECTIVE credit???
Do you have any clue how much I am committed to trying to prevent that from being the case for other marginalized people? As many as I can manage?
The history of my people and of other marginalized peoples is not a āweedā. It is not some embarrassing side effect of other,Ā āmore importantā peopleās history. It belongs in the hands of our peoples, not on a shelf in a literal āstaff-onlyā closet.
