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Originally Posted by Sarmat89
You cannot call more than a half of population 'bigots', it doesn't work this way. If a group of people finds a book offensive, they have a right to demand its removal.
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That's where we just fundamentally disagree. It's a public library. If there aren't books in it that groups find offensive, it's not doing its job. My public library has books I can truthfully say I personally wish were never written, that I vigorously disagree with, containing ideas I find absolutely vile. (I get the On Order emails: there are some real doozies.)
I've never once campaigned for them to get rid of them. And if I were doing the type of research on the topics they discuss that meant accessing even gross and completely wrongheaded published views on the topic, I'd want to have access to them through the library.
ETA: And yes as ZodWallop says we're not talking half of a population, we're talking half of the motivated small-community voters who turned out to vote on this particular issue. But "you can't call half a population bigots" - that's just nonsense. Bigotry is pretty widespread, and declaring that common bigotries aren't real bigotry because they're common just doesn't make any sense.
If you really want me to neutral it on up for you, I could just call them "anti-LGBTQIA+ people", or "queerphobes". Does that work?