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by Barrin92
1407 days ago
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The church members are also members of the community that hosts the library, it's probably where their kids get their books. And the people who go the library possibly are also part of the church, and they're all part of the same school board where they argue if little Timmy gets to read books on sex education they got at the library. All these institutions intersect, and everywhere people fight over which norms should prevail. Nobody governs half a community. There's no absurd reality here. Everyone supports censorship, people just disagree about where or what to censor. They disagree on their shared norms. The true absurdity is to pretend that there is even one person that is religious in the church but secular in the library, as if the two institutions could be separated because they're buildings in different locations. Ask any gay person who is a member of a homophobic religious community if they're not being censored or discriminated but merely 'moderated'. Sure they can leave, you can also leave your zipcode and move to one with more liberal libraries. This is the 'twitter is just a private company' line of argument that is farcical on its face. |
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