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The American Library Association is a radical leftist organization. AndĀ Little House on the Prairie, from its very origins, was a conservative narrative. A story about family, faith and hard work.
Laura’s daughter who helped her work on the books was one of the three great female libertarian figures. And the books posed an implicit challenge to FDR’s New Deal and its vision of total government dependency. Unlike Annie, another anti-FDR text that was successfully transformed into a ringing endorsement of the great progressive dictator, the books couldn’t be warped.
But lately, voices accusing the books of the ur sin of bigotry have been rising. When I visited a Chicago exhibit on the books, there was an obligatory display deploring the language of the books.
So this purge was inevitable.
The ALA’s children division renamed a book award named afterĀ Laura Ingalls Wilder. That’s accompanied by the usual accusations of racism. This comes from the same people who would love to bury Huckleberry Finn six feet underground.
But the popularity of the Little House on the Praire series has nothing to do with lefty librarians and everything to do with children naturally being drawn to it. As libraries increasingly become irrelevant, the ALA is a dying institution lashing out in its anger at a literary landscape over which it wields less influence each year.
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And the messages of the series, individual independence, virtue, values, hard work and family, will survive and outlive the ALA.
Courtesy of Freedom Outpost
Article posted with permission fromĀ Daniel Greenfield
My name is Daniel Greenfield. I am a blogger and columnist born in Israel and living in New York City. I am aĀ Shillman Journalism Fellow atĀ the David Horowitz Freedom Center andĀ a contributing editor atĀ Family Security Matters.Ā My original biweekly column appears atĀ Front Page MagazineĀ and my blog articles regularly appear atĀ Family Security Matters, theĀ Jewish Press,Ā Times of Israel,Ā Act for America andĀ Right Side News, as well as daily at theĀ Canada Free PressĀ and a number of other outlets. I have a column titled Western Front atĀ Israel National NewsĀ and my op eds have also appeared in theĀ New York Sun, theĀ Jewish PressĀ and atĀ FOX Nation.