Seeing a lot of tweets about the hate speech panel that it is, disappointingly, exactly what we all thought it was going to be. I don't know how people can claim they're going to have a nuanced discussion if the discussion is just "Free speech! Yeah! Everybody gets it!"

We need hate speech panels that gives libraries and library staff the tools they need to find work arounds to keep hate speech out of their library. Give us examples of ways we can write our policies that make hate speech against the meeting room rules. Get out of the

ivory fucking free speech is all tower and do some actual intellectual freedom work that doesn't just consistently put our vulnerable staff and patrons in danger. Stop. Enabling. White. Supremacy. In. Libraries. #ALAVirtual20