Or perhaps you have a peculiar definition of "harm" that includes things like "the imparting of information" as well as violence, physical abuse, etc.? If that's the case, kudos to the ALA for now kowtowing to religious reactionaries and others that know they can only perpetuate themselves if they can "protect" at least some children from becoming worldly critical thinkers. I would consider that "protecting" people from knowledge of how the world really is DOES constitute harm, because these people brought up in a fairy-tale world end up at great risk of being taken advantage of, by the right-wing religious nuts that arrange the circumstances or by unscrupulous corporations, wingnuts on the left, pedophiles, what-have-you...

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