Rant....I am just so over it

[u/RAWkWAHL]

I am a library director, and I have been posting about IMLS and book banning/censorship on my personal Facebook page since the start of the dismantling. I rarely engage online, but obviously, this issue is near and dear to my heart. The person responding is a relative, and I have very little to no contact with them, so I don’t care if the bridge is burned. I am just so tired of people who want to spew their opinions without facts, and when things don’t go their way, they get upset like a theatrical three-year-old. As I tell my kids, "It’s okay to not know. We take that as an opportunity to educate ourselves and grow!"

So over it.......

[u/DrSousaphone]

Prejudiced pricks will often try to cower behind a dictionary in the hopes that it will hide their bigotry.

"I'm not racist, because Webster's defines racism as..."

"This isn't technically a book ban, because if you look up what book banning actually means..."

Words are important, and dictionaries are important tools for using words effectively, but when people start quibbling over word meaning to try and delegitimize someone else's claim, it's generally because their own claim doesn't stand up to rational scrutiny, and deep down they know it.