I’ve been thinking about this the last few days, what with Banned Books Week coming up and all and how adamant I am for people staying the fuck out of library business and letting them do their jobs.  Librarians aren’t parents.  They’re not babysitters and they’re not nannies.  It’s not their job to shield children from the potential evils in the world.  Those are judgment calls best left for those children’s parents.  And yet there are more parents than what’s comfortable thinking that not only should they themselves be making these decisions, but so should the libraries so they could be the beacons of safety they want them to be and their children can be theoretically safe everywhere.

While I could go on another rant about parents parenting only their children and so on, that’s not the point of this post.  The point is is my abject dislike for these people in and of itself intolerant?  Should I be more tolerant of their intolerance or does my intolerance at their intolerance of the First Amendment rights of others negate the intolerance definition?  Is it ok for me to be intolerant of them because what I’m intolerant of is their very intolerance of anything different from themselves, thus incubating intolerance within their own community?

Basically, is my intolerance justified or hypocritical?

Did I make sense here?