In my country there is a cathedral called Ely. Within the cathedral there is a large annexe named the Lady Chapel, upon the walls of which were carved intricate carvings of biblical and historical scenes, painted in exquisite detail. It was used as an educational tool for an illiterate society, to each both biblical stories and history, and other things. It portrayed things that, even today, some would find offensive. It was beautiful.
Shortly after the civil war, Cromwell’s newly appointed Iconoclast General visited the cathedral at Cromwell’s behest, first to assess the iconography on display, and then to order his men to destroy everything the new state found offensive, immoral or that would lead the people to sinful ways. Which was nearly everything. They smashed every single carving in the lady chapel. Everything that portrayed a face, a figure, a beast, an act that the state despised. They destroyed centuries-old art, because it was offensive. Because it portrayed things that they despised and considered evil.
Some of those things portrayed events that could be considered objectively evil. Some were licentious and pornographic by today’s standards.
It was destroyed because the protectorate decided that the mere portrayal of evil things would necessarily casue people to enact evil upon one another.
Of course, they didn’t start with Ely. They started with little things. Ugly statues. Images of the old king. Things easily argued away as unjustifiable.
Art is not in itself evil. It cannot, by itself, cause harm. It portrays a thing: it is not that thing. It is a simulacrum of the thing, not the thing itself.
You people are Cromwell in miniature, just ramping up, starting with the easiest “problematic” content to abandon.
