Librarian “Investigated” for Suggesting Conservative Books
Written by commonsensejournal on April 20th, 2006According to Tongue Tied,
The Alliance Defense Fund is standing up for a university librarian in Ohio who has been accused of creating a hostile atmosphere on campus by recommending that people read books with conservative themes
Scott Savage, a reference librarian at Ohio State University in Mansfield, suggested four best-selling conservative books for freshman in his role as a member of the school’s First Year Reading Experience Committee. The four books were The Marketing of Evil by David Kupelian, The Professors by David Horowitz, Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis by Bat Ye’or, and It Takes a Family by Senator Rick Santorum. Savage says he recommended the books after other committee members suggested books with a primarily left-wing perspective.
Savage was put under “investigation” by OSU’s Office of Human Resources after three professors filed a complaint of discrimination and harassment against him, saying that the book suggestions made them feel “unsafe.”
Wow. So a librarian suggests being exposed to opposing ideas and he is “investigated.” According to this insanity, leftist professors like Ward Churchill who say that innocent victims of the 9/11 attacks are Nazis are not a threat to our nation, but merely reading mainstream conservative books is dangerous. Give me a break.
