My point was that their bad-faithily pointing to green eggs and ham, which no one* finds offensive, is like pointing to Mapplethorpe’s non sexual photos in response to calls to censor him, rather than dealing with what actually has people upset.
When my very small, pretty conservative town’s library got a copy of Pictures, a collection of his more explicit photos, people were pretty shocked - this was before residential internet service was available in that town. (I’ll say with pride that the library got zero requests to have it removed though.)
I’m willing to debate whether something is appropriate or not, but when one side is pretending the controversy is about something different than it actually is, they have already admitted defeat.
