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> My county library system has 2,038 books of and about feminism and ~300 books of and about LGBT issues, but it has scarcely anything about conservative / right wing political philosophy or Abrahamic theology.

Since it seems you counted every book in every library in your county and classified them according to left/right political ideology, and were able to come up with a precise number for books "of and about feminism," why aren't you also providing the same for " conservative / right wing political philosophy or Abrahamic theology?" Or for that matter, the books which fall into neither category?

That's just bad statistics.

>It doesn't have a single book by Machiavelli, Hobbes, Evola, or Carl Schmitt.

Bullshit. I refuse to believe you counted ~2,338 items of "feminist" literature in a library system that doesn't contain at least one copy of The Prince.

>The library doesn't seem like a service that's open to everyone, it seems like a subsidiary for a specific viewpoint and agenda.

It does seem that's what you want us to think, sir or madam green account created specifically for this thread.

>Since it seems you counted every book in every library in your county and classified them according to left/right political ideology

I didn't. I just queried the search engine.

>Or for that matter, the books which fall into neither category?

Because I don't really care about those books. I'm only interested in books about conservative / right wing political philosophy and/or Abrahamic theology. My library doesn't have many of those, however, it has a lot of books of ideologies that are hostile to the ones I'm sympathetic to.

When I'm not accommodated in a public place, I tend to look around to see who is. I can see why leftists love libraries, they're welcome to that opinion. I'm just going to vote in a way that's contrary to continuing financial support for those libraries that don't accommodate myself or my interests.

>My library doesn't have many of those, however, it has a lot of books of ideologies that are hostile to the ones I'm sympathetic to.

I have a difficult time believing you, partly because libraries don't actually serve a leftist or feminist agenda, and therefore the situation you describe is dubious, and partly because in another comment you mention "all men are bad feminist literature" which is a straw version of feminism promulgated by redpillers, incels and trolls.

So please mention the county you live in so we can do our own searches and verify the feminist/liberal/anti-right wing agenda for ourselves.

>I'm just going to vote in a way that's contrary to continuing financial support for those libraries that don't accommodate myself or my interests.

Do what several commenters have suggested and ask them to get the material you want, or don't go there.

Why do you feel libraries which don't "accomodate" you, personally, also don't deserve to serve the rest of the community?

>Why do you feel libraries which don't "accomodate" you, personally, also don't deserve to serve the rest of the community?

My general view is that People can do what they want as long as they don't involve me. I have no problem with libraries, I just don't like them enough to want to pay for them and whenever the issue comes up, I'm going to vote to free myself from the burden of supporting things I don't want to support. If libraries become a place that's interesting to me, my personal feelings might change.

Also, I'm sympathetic to kids having access to books. Whenever I'm done with my books, I bring them to my neighborhood park's lending library. It's supported by people in the neighborhood and people can exchange books. It's a practical, low cost solution. Though sometimes my books upset my neighbors, but I don't see how "The Concept of the Political" is any more controversial than say "the Life and Narrative of Frederick Douglass"

You continue to dodge literally the only salient question in this thread: which county do you live in?

The rest of the conversation in this thread is built upon the IMO extremely implausible claims in your first comment.

There's good reason for us to simply not believe your claims. I wrote a Python script to search US library catalogs for Prince, Leviathan, the bible, and some standard texts on christian/jewish history. I didn't find a single library that doesn't have at least one out of three, and nearly all libraries with catalogs my script knows how to handle have a copy of both Prince and Leviathan.

Furthermore, nearly all of the libraries without these texts have the keyword "elementary" or "middle" in their names, which... yeah, Leviathan isn't exactly written at a fifth grade reading level.

e: I also searched library catalogs for the intersection of 2k+ books on category/keyword feminism and no copy of Prince. Zero results.

> >Since it seems you counted every book in every library in your county and classified them according to left/right political ideology

> I didn't. I just queried the search engine.

Liar. Provide the search engine URL if you dare and let us confirm.

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