‘Marxist Lesbian’ Library Org President Tells UK Group To ‘Have A Comrade’ In Fight For ‘Social Change’

The self-proclaimed “Marxist lesbian” president of the American Library Association (ALA)  encouraged a group of British librarians to seek out a “comrade” when promoting “social change”, according to a keynote speech unearthed by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Emily Drabinski, the ALA president who recently come under fire over a resurfaced tweet calling herself a “Marxist lesbian,” gave a June 21 keynote speech to the Academic Libraries North Conference, a coalition of higher education libraries across the U.K., about organizing  to create “the world [librarians]want,” according to a video viewed by the DCNF. In her speech, Drabinski details how librarians can “win” against the “pro-censorship movement” and “the rise of political extremism on the right.”

“[The rise of political extremism on the right] is something that consumes my every day,” Drabinski said in her keynote speech. “I have served as president-elect of the American Library Association for the past year and in that time I’ve visited or talked with hundreds of library workers about what they are facing on the frontlines of their libraries.”As an example, Drabinski spoke about a library director in Boundary County, Idaho, who stepped down following a “political atmosphere of extremism,” the recording shows.

“One of the differences about the right in the United States is that they are heavily, heavily armed, and they had taken over every part of the city and county government in Boundary County,” Drabinski said. “They owned the school board. They owned the city council, the sheriff’s office. Each of those public bids had been taken over by political extremists who have a sort of far-right white supremacist fascist approach to politics. They want to control the region.”