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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is nothing wrong with that book. If you don’t want to read it to your kids, don’t read it. I would never read this new genre of trans kids books in my home but it would NEVER have occurred to me to try to ban them from publication or sale.[/quote] If you suddenly acquired the publishing rights to them would you continue to publish them with your name on the cover? [/quote] I would happily place my name wherever it is appropriate for a publisher to do so, yes. But I am not afraid of ideas. I would publish a lot of books, with all sorts of ideas!!![/quote] Great, then just own it that you are willing to push racism and racist ideas on to society. That is fine. That is your right, but then don't be surprised if the people who are the target of your racism push back on it. [b]That isn't being a lib, that isn't being a snowflake, that isn't cancel culture, it is a marketplace of idea where there is a fair exchange and consequences[/b]. It is called accountability, and the right simply doesn't want to be held accountable for its words and actions.[/quote] You are just using different names for the same thing. You call it "marketplace of ideas" rather than "cancel culture" but in a true marketplace, yiu don't ask publishers not to print something, you just don't buy it. [/quote] [b]Who asked the publisher not to print it? Where are you getting that from?[/b] People weren't really buying these books. Likely because they saw something about them that made them uncomfortable. Perhaps without thinking about them too much. Then the publisher examined the book, realized the sales weren't great and also realized they didn't want to publish the book because they appreciated why so many Americans had stopped buying it. The public "asked the publisher not to print it" using free market techniques and free market techniques only. They weren't banned, no laws were passed to stop the publishing of the book, the government was in no way involved. So whats the problem exactly?[/quote] The idea that those images are racist has been pushed for years by certain scholars and interest groups aligned with their philosophy. Same type of people are pushing to drop Huck Finn from school curriculums because it has the n-word. Same people are pushing the whole idea that words and images are harmful and therefore must not be said/spread/shown. This is all around and you are part of it.[/quote]
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