I can buy Genderqueer on Amazon, the world's largest bookstore.
But there ARE banned books.
On Amazon... I can't buy White Identity by Jared Taylor. I can't buy The White Nationalist Manifesto by Greg Johnson. I can't buy The Turner Diaries by William Luther Pierce. Etc.
If you cared about censorship and "banned" books then you would be defending the books that you find unsavory, not the books that are publicly available on Amazon and are ostensibly not "banned." It's offensive speech that needs protected the most, even if you disagree with it.
Yeah, maybe a kid in Alabama or something can't find Genderqueer at their school library. But there are a lot of books deemed inappropriate for school libraries.
This shit obviously isn't about protecting speech or not wanting books to be banned. It's about making kids gay.
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“But there ARE banned books.”
"It's offensive speech that needs protected the most, even if you disagree with it.”
“Yeah, maybe a kid in Alabama or something can't find Genderqueer at their school library. But there are a lot of books deemed inappropriate for school libraries.”
“This shit obviously isn't about protecting speech or not wanting books to be banned. It's about making kids gay.”
If a book being about gay people can only be intended to make them gay then why are you upset about books about being genocidal maniacs who even in narratives they completely control come across as the most consistent threat of violence, death, and subjugation to white people despite claims to be their “champions” being unavailable? Because by your logic such books intend to turn kids into the same. Or books about true crime. Or books about being in bad relationships. Or books about being a werewolf.
All context about those gay people being, y’know, completely normal people or even doctors and lawyers and rescue workers or in loving relationships with adopted children they raise to be good people doesn’t seem to count for much past gay or trans. If you’re going to say one facet of someone’s birth determines the entire purpose of a story about them you might as well say a book about Mao Zedong wasn’t about communism or oppression or politics in general but encouraging the reader to become Chinese.
But we’re supposed to look past psycho, criminal, and asshole and somehow see noble or proud because white. Or set hypocritical standards where a favoured class can refuse to associate with people with inborn characteristics and actively strike evidence of their existence from all reality regardless of the choices of public or private institutions but everyone else can’t make a choice not to help promote an actually dangerous ideology that strips others of their rights.
If you had your way everyone would just be illiterate and told all they need to know is what to praise and who to hate.
Considering the bakery refusing to make cakes for gay couples set precedent maybe, just maybe, companies can choose whom they cater to. I mean it's not like we should force them to sell to anyone they don't want to as that wouldn't be a free market then. Unless....the bakeries were wrong to discriminate?
Choose carefully OP.
Books, eh? Whilst it all started in Jeff Bezos’s garage with just books, look at how it’s grown since: to now having absolute control over no less than the Bond franchise, despite the legal wranglings involved with that, and way before Bezos had that idea. Since? That’s power that Blofeld’s SPECTRE couldn’t even imagine: and for a brief moment they achieved their aim of world domination via Nine Eyes.
Of course Amazon streams that franchise they now completely own. And more besides that which they don’t, but the owners of such see the benefit of having what they own licenced to Amazon for streaming by them. Including a certain anime series: “Ouran High School Host Club”. The availability of “Genderqueer”?
With more than just a certain book, Amazon prove they don’t give a flying fuck about your favoured ‘books’ OP.
The fact that Amazon streams that anime series - and what it represents - must piss you off no end, eh? Newsflash:
Guess where one can order the manga box set from…?!
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