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To me this is why the argument that some institutions are too important to be subject to cullings for political reasons has to be rejected if those organisations shove themselves into political fights. This tactic of crying "but think about the good libraries/public broadcasting/whatever else does" has to be severely punished, even if it extracts a cost from the punisher, if there is ever a hope for the ratchet to stop.
The one to blame for cuts and cullings is the activist who involved an organisation that is supposed to be owned by everyone into his activism, not the politician who finds himself either forced to do the firings and cuts or literally give taxpayer money to fund his opposition and goals his voters find aberrant.
We do not know that this public library is woke.
Two kinds of libraries might carry offensive queer books:
(1) woke
(2) free speech
You can tell them apart by looking at how they treat books that the wokes hate. Did they get rid of Harry Potter because JK Rowling is a vile TERF? Did they get rid of Twilight because it perpetuates heteronormative and sex-negative stereotypes? If so, that is bad and they should just carry material which offends nobody, which will make them terrible libraries.
If not, then I think in a world where virtually every teen owns a smartphone and finding any act of bestiality just by entering it in a search engine prompt, the shock value of that crudely drawn BJ is minimal. Just write your own book in which two straight cis-gender characters do some chaste dating, marry in a church ceremony and then engage in unprotected PIV sex in their wedding night, and you get to draw a crude picture of that process as well if you like.
Harry Potter is so enormously popular that the popularity can overcome the outrage. A better comparison would be a right-wing political book, particularly one on a similar subject (such as an anti-trans book or a traditional morals book targeting kids).
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This argument is the same as “You already live in a sewer, might as well eat shit, shrug?”
As it turns out, people should not only not eat the shit, but also actively pursue stanching the flow of sewage.
Eating shit has a comparable health effect to living in the sewers.
This is more like "if you sleep on the ground in the woods, it is probably not worthwhile to spend a lot on makeup".
This is a different, less earthy, metaphor, sure, but it means the same thing.
Rather than worrying about makeup, you should stop sleeping in the woods.
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