Michigan library defunded after refusing to censor LGBTQ authors

[Pommer]

Are kids going there and have access even if it's not mine? Then yes I am going to defund it.

Secondly strip joints are nothing but a degradation of women. Turning women from valuable human beings into nothing but sex objects for men to lust at and been seen as nothing but pieces of sex meat.

How degrading.

So if a “public good” doesn’t benefit you personally (or you view as detrimental) you’d be in favor of that “good” (concrete thing or service) being taken away?
(Just trying to get to the underlying principle).

 

[Aldebaran]

So if a “public good” doesn’t benefit you personally (or you view as detrimental) you’d be in favor of that “good” (concrete thing or service) being taken away?
(Just trying to get to the underlying principle).

Nothing "good" about a strip club.

 

[Bradskii]

Are kids going there and have access even if it's not mine? Then yes I am going to defund it.

Secondly strip joints are nothing but a degradation of women. Turning women from valuable human beings into nothing but sex objects for men to lust at and been seen as nothing but pieces of sex meat.

How degrading.

I think that you have that the wrong way around.

 

[SilverBear]

I'm defunding it because I don't want my tax dollars promoting trash to children that damages them. No apologies for defending kids from smut.

please explain why The Great Big Book of Families is "smut"

 

[BPPLEE]

please explain why The Great Big Book of Families is "smut"

Because if depicts a girl who is not Native American in a Native American costume. I think it's called cultural appropriation but you'll have to check with a liberal to be sure

 

[Pommer]

Nothing "good" about a strip club.

The employees might differ?

 

[SilverBear]

Because if depicts a girl who is not Native American in a Native American costume. I think it's called cultural appropriation but you'll have to check with a liberal to be sure

So it's not smut...Can you explain why you are defending the lie that it is?

 

[rjs330]

So if a “public good” doesn’t benefit you personally (or you view as detrimental) you’d be in favor of that “good” (concrete thing or service) being taken away?
(Just trying to get to the underlying principle).

You mean like something that degrades women?

 

[rjs330]

I think that you have that the wrong way around.

The strippers are actually degrading the men?

 

[Aldebaran]

The employees might differ?

You mean those who benefit financially? Better keep the drug kingpins in business then. They no doubt see good in all the money they rake in.

 

[Bradskii]

The strippers are actually degrading the men?

We are degraded by it. The women are the ones in control.

 

[Pommer]

You mean those who benefit financially? Better keep the drug kingpins in business then. They no doubt see good in all the money they rake in.

Is a strip joint a “legal” business?

 

[Zoii]

Sounds like we are on the same page. Where we differ is what quality literature looks like. And these books aren't it.

That's fair enough then. If its simply a choice that its bad writing, then it doesn't deserve to be placed on a bookshelf. I just hope the decision isn't based on the sexuality of the author.

 

[Zoii]

You're saying that if someone wrote "The Pedophiles Guide to Pedophilia...a DIY book for first timers...

You would see no issues with having that in your local library? How about "Homemade Bomb Making for Idiots"? No issues there?

In your country and mine, those who publish methods that are intended to incite the breach of statutes, are themselves committing a felony. I don't support literature that breaks the law and no publishing house would even publish illegal literature. What's more the literature in question did not break those laws so - the question you pose is rather meaningless .

To be clear, the literature in question broke no laws and the examples you chose would. I am surprised you know so little about the laws in your country.