As someone who spent so many weekends in the library looking for new books to read or doing my studies or just needing somewhere quiet to escape — if I’d seen this as a kid or even as a high schooler it probably would have devastated me and that’s not hyperbole or exaggeration
When you grow up poor, sometimes the library is your only option for entertainment. To take that away feels cruel and horrible
Fascism isn’t just “arriving”. It’s been here — but most of us who can see past our own faces already know/knew this. Hell, for some of us, our parents & grands knew it too
I lived without internet for an entire summer and then some thanks to poverty. The library was essentially how I remained connected to the outside world and friends + got school work done. Seeing this kills me
When I was young they would have these reading times where Parents would just drop their kids off and let them quietly read... I'm so old... To think you could leave your kids to read!
