there's an episode of The Simpsons where Marge tries to get a violent cartoon pulled from the airwaves, only to discover that the people backing her aren't going to stop at just the art that she doesn't like, and that supporting artistic freedom means accepting discomfort.
It aired in 1990.
My favorite that lots of people forget because superficially it’s a “baseball movie” is Field of Dreams. Annie, rightfully, calls a woman fighting to ban books from the library a book burning Nazi cow and the author under discussion is core to the entire plot
“You weren’t around for the 60s! You took two 50s and went right on into the 70s!”
