The Four Color Media Monitor

TVO Today tells all about Toronto's open comics library, which, unsurprisingly, has some political propaganda on hand:

Just a few blocks from Toronto’s Bathurst subway station, there’s a cozy, bright storefront that holds the Canadian Comics Open Library — a non-profit organization working to help people rethink comic books. “In North America, we have sort of this super-narrow idea of what comics are,” says Lorena Torres Loaiza, a volunteer with the organization. The world of comics, she says, is not composed of one single genre or style: “It just feels a little bit like we're breaking out of an egg. And it's just the beginning for comics here right now. It's like: Wait, no. It doesn't have to be dudes in tights — it can be so much more.”

Sure, but the problem here is just what kind of themes they're emphasizing, and it's the usual cliches:

The CCOL wants patrons to understand that the stories within its 1,500 books are just as valuable, interesting, and diverse as those found in novels. To help with this, the library uses an unusual cataloguing system. Four stickers of different colours can be placed on the spines of books to identify work that is created by — or that focuses on — members of the LGBTQ+ community, members of the BIPOC community, people with physical disabilities, and people with mental disabilities.

“It's good for research purposes and even just parents coming in with their kids and being excited to see rainbow stickers on the book,” says head librarian Jordan Reg. Aelick. “Since we've only been lending the collection since March, it's still so new, and I'm still seeing how the public reacts to it.”

And this stuff is also for children, right? Well that sums up a problem right there; this stuff isn't suitable for children, yet that's largely what they're emphasizing, at the expense of many far more intelligible subjects like national cultures from foreign countries, and what the most positive could be in that regard. When rainbows are mentioned, that's a telling clue where they're going too.

And funny how mental disabilities are cited as a subject, but no one ask whether LGBT involves any of that, especially in an era where its being shoved down throats at the expense of people's own mental health. This Canadian comics library, alas, sounds like yet another institute that's tangled itself in terrible PC that only takes away from the impact it could've had if they'd avoided building it on divisive ideologies.

Labels: golden calf of LGBT, libraries, msm propaganda, politics