The American Library Association Purges its Racist Feminist Founder

Eugenics, feminism and anti-Semitism.

July 4, 2019 Daniel Greenfield

 

The Dewey Decimal System is the foundation of the modern library. Hundreds of thousands of libraries have laid out their collections around the work of the founder of the American Library Association.  Now Melvil Dewey has been purged by the American Library Association.

 

The ALA's resolution declares that its founder "does not represent the stated fundamental values of ALA in equity, diversity, and inclusion" and thus will rename the Melvil Dewey Medal to something else.  Renaming an award, without renaming the Dewey Decimal System seems odd, but stripping Dewey’s name from a meaningless award is easy, transforming library catalogs is a lot more difficult.  Virtue signaling is easiest when it takes very little work.

 

The purge was inevitable. The ALA is a leftist organization and Dewey had been due for the worst kind of revival................Just as Dewey’s sexual harassment stemmed from his progressive views, so did his anti-Semitism..............Dewey’s obsession with reforming everything made him the toast of progressives. He championed transforming the language and imposing the metric system. He wanted to see everything modernized. The progressive reformer envisioned a world of rigid conformity and unstoppable change. He resolved the paradox, as all lefty reformers do, with a totalitarian answer of tyrants imposing new world orders.........To Read More....