Counter-Currents
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Have you ever stumbled across one of those birdhouses for books in nice neighborhoods? Little Free Libraries are a way neighbors anonymously offer new reading material to each other while following one simple rule: “Take a book. Leave a book.”
The Little Free Library website itself features photos of blacks and Hispanics proudly standing by their libraries. The organization purports to achieve its mission of inspiring readers by “providing 24/7 book access,” thereby suggesting that black, BIPOC, and LGBTQ+ individuals might not read as much as heterosexual whites, since libraries are not open at night. Readers familiar with the midnight basketball program will find this humorous.
Despite the website’s woke posturing, its approach is a great way to share new ideas in your neighborhood — including white identity politics. For example, finding Peter Brimelow’s Alien Nation in a Little Free Library was one step in my own intellectual journey.
Understanding this, one of our most engaged readers and supporters is offering a giveaway grant. In his own words:
This is the kind of thing widely separated individuals (like those on the Internet) can do with almost no risk. Although its efficacy is uncertain, it’s at least targeted at the right audience, given the demographics of who builds Little Free Libraries and where they’re placed. [Check out the map here.]
Here are the rules:
Starting now and until the grant is used up, any readers who want to participate can buy one book from Counter-Currents, plus pay shipping for the entire bundle, and receive up to five additional copies in paperback for free up to a maximum of $75 for the books to be donated per person.
- Instead of using our cart feature, please e-mail [email protected] with your order request so I can send you the total shipping cost for your bundle.
- Once you’ve placed your books, send us pictures to share on social media!
This offer lasts until the grant is used up.
All this is of course about spreading new ideas to people you don’t know. But what about the people you do know? Gift subscriptions to Counter-Currents are also included in our White Wednesday sale (use the code “WHITEWEDNESDAY” at checkout for 15% off). Go to our paywall page here and click “give a subscription” to add a gift subscription to your cart. Socks only last so long; ideas can be treasured forever.
Thank you as always for your readership and support. Let’s get the word out!
5 comments
The Wikipedia page is very concerned that, “Midnight Basketball”, is a racially coded term. You know, there is no winning here. If you say something explicit, like say, “This program is intended to help prevent and curb an epidemic of crime where black people live”, you are a vehement racist perpetuating stereotypes. If you, “code”, it well, you are a pernicious and evil person who won’t speak plainly.
I don’t even think the colonial and Founding era wise men who clearly knew we had two totally incompatible populations could foresee just how incompatible they were. I am likely just historically ignorant. When you look at it, we have in our midst a population that rejects our justice system. With no agreement on a justice system you cannot have a country or even a viable state. For even more fatal wounds, it has a notion of justice that means the obliteration of all of our core tenets: freedom of association; property rights; voluntary charity and local community and more. As this Wiki article points out, it also opposes freedom of speech and mandates total silence: you can’t speak plainly and you can’t speak through inference. Thus you can’t speak at all and so free speech is dead too.
Essentially, this validates those earlier epoch’s leaders clearly stated observation – perhaps to a far greater extent than they understood. It is too bad they never moved to deal with the problem when it was easier to deal with.
As for the Wiki people and the eggshells they line our body politic with, well, more proof these people are not fit to rule.
Tangent I know. Great program and very creative use of it. It feels like spreading this reading throughout small town America would be good.
I think most of the Founders – including Jefferson – were well aware of the incompatibility between the races. However, they wouldn’t have dreamed that politicians in later generations would be so stupid as to relinquish our predominant position, much less allow ourselves to become a minority in our own country. Likewise, they certainly wouldn’t have imagined that it would ever be a taboo to advocate for the interests of our own people.
During 2020 when public libraries were closed I first used these libraries. There were five in walking distance. The closest one was in a small park that the municipal authorities closed, though that Little Library was the most heavily used. The second closest was on the most expensive street and had a pompous stuffed-shirt sign saying “I am a former publishing executive who believes in books and libraries, but for the duration of this emergency I must regrettably close this Little Library.” I assume it was in front of his or her house, a gorgeous 1920s mansion. The dick actually wrapped a bungee cord around it with a padlock. Another one was for children in front of a private school, and they did the same thing with a slightly less irritating sign and no bungee cord. The two best were: 1) on a sleepy side street, not well frequented but very well painted and hidden by a thick hedge so you could not see it until directly in front of it. No closure or sign from its caretaker. 2) A decrepit and abandoned one in front of a wealthy apartment building. I found a paperback of Farley Mowat’s The Grey Seas Under, about a salvage tug in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in the latter and still check in on that Little Library, though it’s the farthest from me, now and then. Still abandoned and more decrepit, but still filled with sometimes good books.
I’m always happy to upgrade the contents of my city’s Little Free Libraries. Everyone should get in on the fun.
I am looking forward to the breathless reporting of the WNM popping up in these little free libraries. And you thought the reaction to the It’s Okay To Be White signs was something.
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