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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“The real problem is that you think the real problem is whatever you think the real problem is”

You guys are insufferable.

There’s no problem with a publisher deciding it doesn’t want to sell a certain book anymore.  Literally happens every day. If you’re concerned that our culture doesn’t value racist stereotypes anymore, then I can’t help you. The world has changed. Consumers don’t want to buy certain things anymore, publishers don’t publish it. That’s how free markets and free speech work. [/quote]
The apparently want to buy these books, so consumer tastes haven't really changed, the publisher decided to change it for them.  Why do you even care that people are talking about these books?  Were you alive for New Coke?  When Coca Cola told people their tastes had changed and people said, "Hell no it didn't!" It was national news for months until it changed back.

And this too is how free speech works.  Pretty damn disingenuous to see it's free speech to withdraw a book but not free speech to complain about it.[/quote]

I don’t think there’s a critical market segment that will change the publisher’s mind on this, but if there is, that’s fine. Publishers exercise this kind of discretion every single day.  Only certain kinds of people seem to get upset about decisions based on the desire not to propagate racist stereotypes—racists. You might be one.[/quote]
The only people who think this way are racist totalitarians.  There appears to be a critical need for appeasement of the racist totalitarian demographic. [/quote]

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