US to ban Canadians from entering border friendship library
US to ban Canadians from entering border friendship library
The Haskell Free Library and Opera House sits half in Canada, half in Vermont. Now, the US is planning to cut off main entrance access to Canadians
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Interesting how the turnip says canada and the US are still friends, but they behave like this at the same time. Talk about gaslighting abusive behaviour.
Move all the books to the Canadian side now.
Might as well - they won't read them anyways.
They're more likely to burn them
It's not so much they won't. They can't.
This article is about a month old. Donations are already pouring in to build a new entrance on the Canadian side.
Once completed, America will build a wall through the middle of the library lol.
Fast forward 3 months the headline will be.
"MAGA residents angry at Canadians for trying to sabotage local businesses."
I don't know if that town in particular is super big on Maga. Of all the Americans, these are our closest kin.
That makes sense, it is a really cool story and I love that the donation from the philanthropists to create an international feeling of solidarity between Canadian and U.S. neighbors has been so effective of a symbol AND practical space for things that are denied reality elsewhere for so long to so many people.
I was making a broader joke about the sentiment of people in my country (US) attacking other people and then loudly complaining the victim is a jerk for reacting in an unfriendly way, but you are right, this architecture and organization simply could not exist in an intolerant or overly bigoted place. The very architecture of the library and performance venue subverts and challenges bigotry, isolationism and xenophobia in a way that doesn't allow those kinds of beliefs to casually slip in the back door like they do in other places.
Part of that library is on Canadian soil.
The Canadian part can hold all the “woke” books (actual histories of the Civil War, books on immunology/germ theory, anything by LGBT or PoC authors, anything about WW2 that might hurt a Nazi’s feelings) and hold drag queen storytimes, leaving space in the US part for lavishly bound AI-generated memoirs by right-wing talking heads that nobody actually reads, but that exist solely to launder payment through book sales and self-help books that advise you to drink bleach.
We should break in and wall off our side.
What a bunch of ignorant losers - fuck 'em.