Interesting. I had an exchange the other day on Medium with a man who objects to people complaining about banned books in libraries. He started out with a bit of snark: "Pssssst, don't tell anyone, but all these books are available on Amazon to anyone who wants them."

When I replied that I had read many thousands of books over the course of my life and that I have often relied on libraries because books are expensive, he got even more dismissive, telling me he's sorry I'm poor. (In a way that made it perfectly clear that he's not sorry if people are poor.)

He doesn't think the needs or wants of poor people matter, so it's beyond him to understand why people are complaining about books not being available in libraries. Anyone who's worthwhile has money, so they can just buy books.

Because of that mindset, which I think is related to what you're writing about, he doesn't think we have a book banning problem in the United States. In fact, he goes so far as to say that no books are banned in the United States.

PEN America and the American Library Association say more titles are banned from libraries today than at any point in U.S. history, but to the conservative American I was corresponding with, the very idea is nonsense.