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Donald Trump has actually made Islamophobic statements. Disparaging people as racist or sexist or Islamophobic without evidence is a horrific act. But there's plenty of evidence here.

PC culture is a problem, and it's awful, but it's not the problem in this case.

As for the police being allowed to protest, I agree that I can't think of anything especially wrong with that.

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While there is nothing wrong with the part-time security officers' protesting, particularly by resigning, it seem a little odd that they would want to...

"...after the library agreed to adjust the exhibit sign’s language to read “Books about Black Lives—The African American Experience”".

What more do they want?

Yeah, but it's their choice.

It's everyone else's choice to be puzzled by how they're going about it, and their motivations, and to write about that puzzlement, if they like.

Of course! I didn't mean you shouldn't have...

Here the librarians are not defending free speech but take a political position on this issue.

For example, they could have put up a book "Book about White Lives - The European Experience".

This wouldn't go over well in the current political climate, I assume.

So since the police officers are on the other side of this issue, it makes sense that they wouldn't want to be implicitly defending the opposite side.

...but they changed it. Also, they're not actually on the other side of the issue. Not really. That kind of us-vs-them mentality is what got us here in the first place.

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