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| Kelly Jensen: "neutrality is white supremacy" |
n another example of how librarians are not "trusted experts" and seek to use local libraries for carrying out a political agenda antithetical to America. American Library Association-awarded librarian Kelly Jensen in Book Riot writes that. She doesn't want libraries to be neutral and blames it on capitalism, which is what she means by "white supremacy." The public wants neutrality in libraries, but ALA librarians don't.
More from Kelly Jensen: "Who gets the safety of 'neutrality?' Cishet white people." Sounds racist to me. Sound racist to you? "That trustee has been noting there aren’t enough books for their white cishet son, who is into history nonfiction." Yep, racist. "He wants the library to be 'beige,' built in the image of white supremacy and nothing more." Yep, racist, and "beige" is not white, so her statement is internally inconsistent because she's blinded by hate. Your "trusted expert" for school kids is a racist—but also a librarian, so she's fine and will continue to collect ALA's American Association of School Librarians awards and maintain her position as Senior Editor at Book Riot.
She's also anti American. Kelly Jensen has a history of hate for America, such as by posting to her 13K Bluesky followers, "BTW, it is okay to just not celebrate or give a single sh[*]t about America's 250th anniversary of colonization. You are allowed to just ... not!"
Here are two articles on how people talking about "white supremacy" mean anti capitalism and anti American:
Now let's see in detail what ALA's "trusted expert" for children says about neutrality in libraries. It's jam packed with projections like about "right-wing boards"—while ALA trains librarians ("
Read. Lead. RUN!") into creating anti-American, pro child indoctrination boards comprised of librarians:
Jensen, Kelly. “Pride Month Still Matters, Despite Disappearing From Libraries: Book Censorship News, July 17, 2026; Pride Displays, Programs, and Events Continue to Disappear from Libraries in the US, Making Them Complicit in Queer Erasure.”
Book Riot, July 17, 2026.
https://bookriot.com/pride-is-disappearing-in-us-libraries/. [Bold font modified.]
Quieting [of Pride in libraries] also happens more systematically. Numerous libraries have seen their right-wing boards craft policies related to affinity displays or programming. These policies target marginalized groups either intentionally, which we have seen in libraries where the far-right has simply taken over the library board and built the institution in their cult leader’s image, or they’ve been created under the guise of “neutrality.” But libraries aren’t neutral. Libraries have never been neutral, and libraries can never be neutral. They are unabashedly pro-library, which means being unabashedly pro-community and unabashedly pro-representation. Neutrality is bullsh[*]t. “Neutrality” is why far-right interests have run the train over libraries again and again and again. If libraries stand for nothing, they fall over easily again and again and again.
Neutrality is white supremacy. Until libraries understand that being political isn’t the same as being partisan, extreme partisan interests will declare the library as theirs and theirs alone.
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At Columbia State Community College in Tennessee, a library’s LibGuide on LGBTQ+ terminology, flags, and organizations disappeared from the library’s website. It had been the library’s most-viewed guide, but the director heard from someone that they should remove it to “avoid any controversy.” The guide was not deleted, but it was unpublished. This is complying in advance, of course, and it’s also doing a tremendous disservice to an adult user audience. Who gets the safety of “neutrality?” Cishet white people.
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Need I say more? The above is all my opinion. But watch Kelly Jensen on Bluesky to see for yourselves what I see. These are the people set up by American Library Association to be "trusted experts" for school children.
Oh yes, oh yes, by the way, something completely different about Kelly Jensen. She has been viciously attacking, of all places, New York Public Library and its president and CEO Tony Marx.
Jensen, Kelly. “What Goes Into Tracking Censorship, With an Update From the New York Public Library Comms Team; Immense Work Goes into Reporting On and Tracking Censorship, So When We’re Asked to Pull That Work, We Take It Seriously.”
Book Riot, July 13, 2026.
https://bookriot.com/what-goes-into-tracking-censorship/.
One of the things she really hates is that New York Public Library demanded she delete a link to something.
Within hours of last week’s Literary Activism link roundup post going live, a spokesperson from the NYPL’s communications department sent an email (to my personal email–something really unusual) expressing frustration that they were not asked for a comment and with “an urgent” request for a phone call.
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I extended the offer to share what NYPL may wish to say in response to the carousel link. The spokesperson then responded with requests to take down the link, once again asking me for my phone number. I did not remove the link, though I did again offer to link to any public response they might give.
To be clear, we do not pull or censor our link roundups to allow individuals or entities to respond to information linked in these sources. Responses have been included in succeeding Literary Activism link roundups where appropriate.
To me, this is hysterical. She's offended NYPL committed "censorship" by demanding she delete her link to something.
This is yet another of the never-ending line of ALA double standards. In the first of the many defamation suits ALA had someone file against me, there was a demand made of me. If I complied with the demand, the lawfare lawsuit would be dropped.
What was the demand ALA wanted for the defamation suit against me to be dropped? To delete a link! To delete what I wrote about ALA! About how ALA was homophobic! ALA wanted me to delete a document proving ALA was homophobic! Kelly Jensen wasn't incensed about that but demands NYPL be criticized for doing nearly exactly what ALA did! To protect homophobia! By Deborah Caldwell-Stone, Esq.!
So I never deleted it, the case continued on, and I won it both times (since it was refiled after the initial attempt failed). Now, read about ALA homophobia from the very article ALA sought to get me to censor and I didn't—and Deborah Caldwell-Stone, Esq., only rose to more and more prominence in ALA making all of ALA homophobic (were she in my company, I would have fired her for homophobia):
And I'm still being sued in now the fourth and fifth defamation suits promoted by ALA. Please give $5, it's cheaper than a Starbucks!
