"Here is a Washington Post story about a foaming-at-the-mouth smalltown mob that voted to defund its public library when the librarians refused to remove a controversial graphic memoir called Gender Queer from its shelves.
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OK, stop right there. I am supposing that the print version of the Washington Post doesn't show illustrations from Gender Queer. Why not? Here are some, one of which I've slightly altered. I apologize for offending some of you by this, but you have to understand exactly what we are talking about here.
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There is a substantive difference between illustrations of sex and verbal descriptions of it!

It should go without saying that the library staff did not deserve the crude harassment visited upon them by some of those who objected to what they were doing. But the Washington Post reporter could not resist writing a progressive just-so story about the mean right-wing mob that took away the libwawy, as opposed to an actual piece of journalism that would have explored the real and legitimate tensions within a democratic polity over the limits of free speech on the public dime."

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/why-people-are-losing-faith-in-public-institutions/

On Friday, August 26, 2022 at 12:56:09 PM UTC-4, ltlee1 wrote:
> "Here is a Washington Post story about a foaming-at-the-mouth smalltown mob that voted to defund its public library when the librarians refused to remove a controversial graphic memoir called Gender Queer from its shelves.
> ...
> OK, stop right there. I am supposing that the print version of the Washington Post doesn't show illustrations from Gender Queer. Why not? Here are some, one of which I've slightly altered. I apologize for offending some of you by this, but you have to understand exactly what we are talking about here.
> ...
> There is a substantive difference between illustrations of sex and verbal descriptions of it!
>
> It should go without saying that the library staff did not deserve the crude harassment visited upon them by some of those who objected to what they were doing. But the Washington Post reporter could not resist writing a progressive just-so story about the mean right-wing mob that took away the libwawy, as opposed to an actual piece of journalism that would have explored the real and legitimate tensions within a democratic polity over the limits of free speech on the public dime."
>
> https://www.theamericanconservative.com/why-people-are-losing-faith-in-public-institutions/

The controversy is simply when is pornography pornography?
Personally, I think many in the US will consider the graphic novel (a novel that tells a complete story via illustrations)
pornographic. If it is not, shouldn't the library and the WashingtonPost.com explain why it is not and therefore the
library should be allowed to carry the book.