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  • Morality Police

    From Lee Lofaso@2:203/2 to Alexander Grotewohl on Tue May 30 18:51:28 2023
    Hello Alexander,

    Banning books that have sexual perversion to push it on children SD>is
    bad? What kind of pervert are you?

    this one is funny. they make it sound like the books are unavailable. they

    Public libraries are open to the public. And funded by taxpapers.
    You and Sean are not the morality police. As such, you and Sean do
    not get to decide which books are available, and which are not, to
    the public. We get to do that. That is why we fund them. It is our
    money, well spent.

    If you and Sean have an objection to a book that is in your local
    public library, feel free to inform the library board asking for a
    review of said book.

    Or move to Iran, where the ayatollahs have plenty of morality
    police around. You'll love 'em.

    For Life,
    Lee

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  • From Alexander Grotewohl@1:120/616 to Lee Lofaso on Tue May 30 15:09:56 2023
    On 30 May 2023, Lee Lofaso said the following...

    You and Sean are not the morality police. As such, you and Sean do
    not get to decide which books are available, and which are not, to
    the public. We get to do that. That is why we fund them. It is our
    money, well spent.

    You don't really seem to understand. "You don't get to decide" is incorrect. You yourself then outline exactly how we get to decide. If you care about the system you simply can't complain when my request to the library board results in the removal of a book.

    You're not arguing against MY point though, which is where to draw the line on when a book is available. And if you read my post I'm only arguing against the availability of some of these books to children/under 18.

    Here's a photo from one of these book by the way. Maybe an impressionable child on your life will repeat this act with an abusive adult and think it's totally okay. There are plenty of examples of the author saying it's for children as young as 11.

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FxNqEZrWYAEW0pD.jpg

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