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Paul Chambers🚧

Dayton, Metro Library removing pride flags, ‘cultural’ displays from public view.

Staff are permitted to have small flags as internal office decorations, “but it need not show to the public or the outside of the building,” the memo says

Library officials declined to comment about the changes to its policies. The Dayton Daily News obtained the memos through a public records request.

There is widespread speculation it is due to the threat of the Trump Admin gutting funding due to his recent DEIA executive orders, and concerns related to grant funding.

The library operates more than a dozen branches

I don't feel bowing down will help matters. Let funding dry up and services start getting affected, so the community feels the pain and blowback. Tell them why it is happening. Why their after-school programs are getting cancelled, etc. Capitulating just doesn't seem like the right way to respond. .

daytondailynews.com/local/dayt

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Dayton Daily News · Dayton Metro Library removing pride flags, ‘cultural’ displaysBy Sydney Dawes

@paul Gosh.

*scratches head*

IANAL.

That means I am not a lawyer for those thinking anything kinky.

That sounds to me like a clear violation of the First Amendment.

@hannu_ikonen @paul

Trust me on this, there is no 1st. Being homeless, you can not be in public spaces even.

@bob @paul Yeah, Fremont & all sorts of center left to right wing Californians keep reminding me there is no first, for you, or for me if I tried to help you.

Fucking disgusting shit.

@hannu_ikonen @paul

I was in the US Army for Desert Storm. If I would have committed just ONE of the things he's been convicted of, during war time, I would have been in front of a firing squad. #KingTrump is a traitor to the US Constitution and deserves no less than a military person.

@paul More people compiling der vishes of der Fuhrer.

🤬

@paul History (and current events) tells us that capitulating does not spare the capitulator. It just delays the inevitable, and makes them look like a spineless coward.

@paul This is seriously bad if it spreads to other library jurisdictions. Forcing public libraries into giving up one of their essential motivating values—-intellectual freedom—— so they continue to get their grant funding critical for operations, is a bitter, bitter choice. You can argue for keeping the money so libraries can continue, but the loss of agency in representing the freedom to read, is a moral loss of profound consequences.

@paul

Will they remove any American flags too?

@paul Capitulating to fascists & bullies has never, ever made them stop. Make them own the damage they're doing.