Self-Righteous Cant And It's Dangers

What a Wunnerful World

A serious problem has come to light in the Tasman District Council.  We salute Tasman District councillor Dana Wensley who is in the midst of a thorough going expose.  What is the problem?  It is the alleged bias of some books contained in the library.  

Some books about the Treaty of Waitangi on the shelves of Tasman District libraries are "very right-wing extremist", says Tasman District councillor Dana Wensley.  Some material “that I know we've got in our library ... is by a publisher that is not academically robust," Wensley last week told a meeting of the council operations committee.

“There's a number of these books in our library that are actually very worrying to me because they're free of charge,” she said. “The academic presses are more expensive for those books to buy but I think there's something to us having a mind to making sure that material in our library that has gone through that academic rigour of peer review is readily accessible.”

Wensley said she was concerned people were “picking up these books on our shelves that are very right-wing extremist ... and I think we should have zero tolerance for that”.

Material in the Tasman District Council library must be approved by approved people. If they are not thus approved by approved people it is likely that some books will contain unapproved bias--and clearly we should have ZERO TOLERANCE for that.


What a relief!  We can now rest easily in our cribs knowing that everything we read in the Tasman District Library is authorised by approved authorizers.  But what in particular?  Well, everything that the special people don't like or disagree with.  You know, it's demeaning if not downright disrespectful for any book to have inappropriate type faces and sizes.  But much, much worse is when books express views that other, authorised  people do not agree with.  But, worse still, when readers are provoked and find the content of a particular book offensive or harmful to other folk.  Thankfully no longer will such travesties be travestying us, or anyone else for that matter.

Thankfully we are now wonderfully protected from right-wing extremists and their shocking, hateful writings--at least in the Tasman District Council libraries.  But let all of us be warned.  If we happen to stray from the protective walls of these libraries we will likely be infected with ideological poison which is, well, poisonous.