And then people who have actually read the Bible would show up en masse and say that there’s no record of Jesus ever having said anything like this, although John 21:25 could possibly cover it, but probably not.
Help me a bit here. What does a “banned” book mean vs “we don’t sell that book”? If a privately owned “Muslim” book store doesn’t sell the “New Testament” is that a ‘banning’ or ‘we don’t sell that book’?
You will have to ask, for instance, DemonTree whose now-closed GD thread “Amazon quietly banning books” is called out in the OP of this thread. Or octopus who has also been throwing around the word “ban” more for rhetorical value than for any rationally consistent meaning.
Most of the other posters in this thread have been making exactly the same sort of points that your post is making: namely, that a private entity deciding not to sell a particular item is not the same thing as “banning” that item. You can go to, e.g., the Abebooks website right now and find dozens of copies of these discontinued Dr. Seuss books for sale, and there is no prohibition whatsoever against purchasing or owning as many copies of them as you please.
So yeah, I think sensible people are already pretty much all in agreement that we should not loosely use the term “banned” to mean merely “not sold by a particular retailer” or “no longer republished by the people who hold the publishing rights to it”. Unfortunately, there are some fairly non-sensible people in the discussion who don’t get that point.
That’s it.
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The folks who’ve had a stroke are the fools who adhere to the morally bankrupt ideology of wokeness where math, telling time, and writing in complete sentences is a sign of racist, white supremacy.
In what messed up, bizarro world has 1+1 = 2 become hate speech? Progressives are more worried about Mr, Potato Head then they are about genocide in China.
Really? It’s ‘’‘Progressives’‘’ that turned that non-story into yet another anti-trans moral panic?
Shit in your hand, watch conservative ‘’‘news’‘’ for stories about genocide in China, and watch conservative ‘’‘news’‘’ for stories about latest ‘’‘culture war’‘’ outrage and see which fills up first.
Fun fact: When confronted with difficult questions octopuses run away and pretend the question wasn’t asked.
Yes. I just don’t see any in the lyrics you posted. Care to point them out?
I’ve seen many people right on these boards argue that trans women should be allowed to compete in women’s sports because they are women. And that is their whole argument. So don’t tell me it isn’t true.
Wrong. The point of using this terminology with regard to sports is that sporting ability depends on bodies and not on identity. Having separate categories of sport based on gender identity makes about as much sense as having them for people with different hair colours. There’s no way to justify it.
I could have sworn you endorsed this style of terminology of referring to people by their body parts and biological functions in the JKR thread. (Funnily enough, the group of people so referred are almost always the same as the ones who are commonly denigrated for their biology by being told they are hysterical or just PMSing, and that menstruation is disgusting and taboo, and the same who see their careers suffer after having children.)
But I’m glad to know you don’t endorse ‘bleeders’. How about ‘people who bleed’?
Should have read the rest of the thread before replying. My bad also. Consider the subject closed.
It means that as well as stopping sale of the book themselves, Amazon also banned 3rd party sellers on the site from selling it. I hope that if I said eBay banned some item, you’d understand what I meant and that it isn’t the same as a general ban.
Obviously I should have been more clear in my OP.
Don’t know what you’re complaining about. I read your posts.
I understand the fucking idiot right-wingers are trying to make that legal now. That’s gonna come back and bite them in the ass too. “We meant that only WE could run YOU down with our cars! No fair!”
He claims not to be trolling. OK then, that would make him the stupidest idjit that I’ve come across.
My money is on “Stupid dumbass troll.”
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Business makes decision to re-brand product to keep up with the times
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Conservative media goes apeshit and demands private company does what they want
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When this idiocy is pointed out (conservatives wanting government control over private business, conservatives demanding private company be “cancelled”
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then our resident idiotic troll tries to spin this as:
“Oh, Oh, you progressives are more worried about Mr. Potato Head than about genocide in China”
A three year old can see the blatant idiocy here.
You mean atheists?
No you haven’t, and no it’s not.
That may be what you reduce their argument to in your simple black and white mindset, but that is not the argument that is actually given.
It’s hard to tell if you are a liar or just stupid, or if it’s a combination of both, but it is evident that you are useless as a poster when it comes to subjects to which you have such a knee jerk hateful response.
Holy shit. I always knew your mainspring was wound way too tight, but this proves it snapped entirely. A nice relaxing stint in incoherent babbling rehab seems to be in order.
octopus: intrinsically biased since 2015
Exapno_Mapcase: Getting paid to write in complete sentences since 1975
Well, other posters pointed at why your article was not reliable or past due thanks to changes made, bottom line: one should then change one’s opinion or at least drop that article or source as reliable. Otherwise then you are no different from right wing or from unedited and copy paste sources that do not do corrections **, because those corrections will undermine the biased message they want to promote.
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** In the era of the internet, the excuse that no corrections are possible is poppycock, it is double deceptive when a source willfully ignores that corrections and clarifications were made and are available for decades now like what deniers ignore in their articles regarding the climate gate manufactured controversy.
Yes I have, and yes it is. Are you going to acknowledge that you were wrong earlier and I was responding to someone who claimed government regulation of business = socialism?
You are a pathetic lying sack of shit. I never fucking said regulation is socialism you moron. I said that FORCING STORES TO SELL SOMETHING is socialism. That isn’t regulation, that’s not even close. That is dictating what a store does to the point that the government is running it.
This is your problem. You make up bullshit nobody ever said, absolutely lie about it, then smugly and ineptly attempt to refute it. You are a despicable human being and you should be ashamed of yourself.