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I Never Pick the Right Thing to be Outraged About
There is strength in numbers, but I’m always on the fringe
It seems as though it has taken a few days to see a reaction to the firing of the librarian at the Library of Congress. But now I’m seeing outrage on many fronts. It was noted on a friend's social media page, and just now I saw it on the School Library Journal’s page.
Am I outraged at this? Yes. To me, it is an extreme overreach of the President to fire someone who guards and adds to one of our most precious resources — books.
This has happened in history before. The most famous being on May 10th, 1933 when Nazi Germany burned books they claimed as “un-German.”
Books are places where ideas live and act as seeds once planted in the minds of the curious and hopeful.
But I have to admit, I’ve had more outrage about other things the current United States administration has done than the firing of Dr. Carla Hayden. And that’s where it goes south for me. I’m never on the same page as the public regarding being outraged.
Our government is firing, through widespread reduction-in-force efforts, some of our best minds in science. I’ve heard more about Dr. Hayden’s firing than the thousands of scientists and researchers who have lost or will lose…
