• satori [she/her]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      73·
      2 years ago

      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.”

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      38·
      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.

  • heartheartbreak [fae/faer]@hexbear.netEnglish
    70·
    2 years ago

    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!!!

        • StewartCopelandsDad [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          9·
          2 years ago

          1. different if you own the fridge, vs vandalizing a library that someone else installed and maintains. It would be dumb but you could run your own Christian Little Free Library without fucking up other people’s efforts

          2. Yesterday I saw my local Love Fridge has recently put up rules for what you can donate, forbidding raw meat. I once talked to a vegan homeless woman using the fridge who said she had a hard time getting food. The limiting factor for these things is often fridge space, and I think rules like that are helpful to make the fridges accessible to everyone. Sometimes you have to remove, e.g., the one hundred quarts of strawberries that someone has donated to make room for more widely useful food*. In the same way, if the fridge had a “no peanut/dairy/sesame/etc” poster I would expect such things to be removed as part of the regular cleaning of the fridge. (As a practical matter, my guess is the new Love Fridge rules were motivated by people putting raw meat in there and leaking on the other stuff.)

            *Because the fridges are often overflow from local food distribution charities. Problem always seems to be uneven distribution. If you want a pallet of this one week, a pallet of that the next week, you can get it for free and give it to the needy. But who wants to live off pre-sliced fruit one week and marinara sauce the next week? If you want a consistent amount of good food for people to eat a balanced diet off of, you have to buy it at the grocery store or have a huge intake network to spread out all the weird donations.

    • coffeecup@lemm.eeEnglish
      13·
      2 years ago

      What a specious argument. These neighborhoods also have milk in them. Does that make all neighborhoods with milk racist? These things also exist in every major city, look around.

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      33·
      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.

  • AcidSmiley [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    47·
    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

  • Snackuleata [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    44·
    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.

  • janNatan@lemmy.mlEnglish
    37·
    2 years ago

    One of my local used books stores has a wooden bin/box/crate outside of free books. If your book(s) are rejected by the store for resell and you don’t want to take them back home, then you put them in the bin. Some people also just dump books in there. It’s right next to the front door, so this is its intended use.

    Every time I go, I collect any prayer books, bibles, or other religious garbage I find. Then, I take it home with me and put it where it belongs.

    I’m doing my part!