DP. No, it's not harm. And it's no harm to stop publishing the book either. |
Why not? |
You are welcome to show the harm, if you have evidence. |
To clarify. Why is not harmful? People say it is, even if you don't and use this as a reason. Then people say "I wish they kept the book in print," and you assume that those people have no valid reason to even say that? Do you really think people want things for no good reason? |
Ignore above and see my other answer. |
It's unclear to me what your "other answer" is. |
If some people say the book causes harm and some people say stopping to publish the book causes harm and neither has any concrete evidence, then it's all just a matter of opinion. |
Read. The. Thread. It’s a reference to the problematic content in “if I ran the zoo”. And yes, Asian people have definitely been seen as a subservient class in this economy for the larger part of its existence. Perpetuating imagery that reinforces that is bad. |
And yet, only the owner of the copyright has a right to decide what to do. And they did. You lost. |
Yes that is my point. But I go one step further. Same type of issue keeps coming everytime someone sees "cancel culture" in action somewhere. The people who are raising the point generally get dismissed as idiots, racists, shills, etc. But they have a real point that is repeatedly getting dismissed with these words. Their real point is just as valid as anything the progressive left has come up with. But obviously nobody wants to hear that. |
So it's all about power, not racism after all? |
No, that's my point. The publisher is exercising their right to freedom of speech by deciding not to publish. Some on this thread are exercising their right to freedom of speech to say the images aren't racist. So everyone wins. No harm done. |
It all boils down to rights. The publisher has the right to decide according to our Constitution. |
We all read the thread, but I don't know anybody who has that stereotype anymore, nor have I seen in publications. Maybe if you read Stormfront you will, but more likely you'll hear more about how smart the Chinese and we will become their servants. So if that stereotype no longer exist exists how does an old book perpetuate that, seeing that i apparently didn't. |
Hopefully I'm misunderstanding but are you seriously arguing that because the stereotype is outdated, there is no problem with it? Seriously? |