Your argument about exposing hateful ideas to the light is echoed (or foreshadowed) in a beautiful film from 1956 called "Storm Center." Bette Davis plays a small-town librarian who won't bow to the McCarthyite town council. Some kind soul has posted it (probably contrary to copyright) on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=033KVFJw_OU
Your argument about exposing hateful ideas to the light is echoed (or foreshadowed) in a beautiful film from 1956 called "Storm Center." Bette Davis plays a small-town librarian who won't bow to the McCarthyite town council. Some kind soul has posted it (probably contrary to copyright) on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=033KVFJw_OU