How the fuck, in a time of deep austerity and economic crises, and particular focus here on library cutbacks - councils' money has found to implement:
More than 100 librarians attended the training earlier this month, on how to handle the fierce row with parents over a country-wide summer tour by Drag Queen Story Hour UK.
In the forum, held on July 20, librarians from across Britain shared “war game” strategies for dealing with “really distressing” drag criticism and being “bombarded by complaints letters”.
War game strategies???? Who's upping the ante here?!!
One speaker suggested the protesters could be fooled. They obviously think people are thick. Such arrogance.
We’ve always said pantomime dame because we don’t want protestors outside our building,” Ian Anstice, a librarian from Cheshire West and Chester, told the seminar.
So, Ian Anstice - you know the score and you're admitting that you're lying, and you know you're lying. You know you're pushing particular propaganda.
How about, councils save a lot of money, and time, and trouble, and a lot of opposition, if they just refrain altogether from Drag Queen Story Time?
I mean, seeing as it's now costing councils extra money both to stage DGST and to send staff on training courses to counter the opposition to something that was not even asked for in the first place.
DQS is not exactly an emergency service; and councils pushing DQST are now having to also finance training for librarians to counter parents' and residents' opposition to DQST.