It's a good story at first and comes when talk of censoring books is going around but this isn't really a principled campaign dedicated to free speech and to oppose censorship, it's still very partisan. As you mention, a lot of it is personal and many of the people praising these actions are perfectly happy to censor views with which they disagree and would probably support the mayor if he were trying to purge books they disagreed with.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~
It's a good story at first and comes when talk of censoring books is going around but this isn't really a principled campaign dedicated to free speech and to oppose censorship, it's still very partisan. As you mention, a lot of it is personal and many of the people praising these actions are perfectly happy to censor views with which they disagree and would probably support the mayor if he were trying to purge books they disagreed with.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~