Remember part of "show them who you are" is knowing who you are and not feeling like you need to prove it to every stranger who pops up in your mentions/face with a bad faith accusation

It’s easy to do theory on things you dislike. Can you critique something you love? Can you hold the duality of loving it and understanding it? Or that’s what I was trying to do. Hope springs eternal!

You aren’t stealing the book. They’re saying m that you are stealing their charity. And their charity is part of how they perform citizenship. The branded little free libraries are very much tied to white ideas of charity, thus they come with binaries about who deserves charity.