Why are Christian Bookstores Allowed to Ban Books?

I’m not the one too dumb to understand this isn’t about what I can say, which is whatever I want. When what’s under discussion, even in a satirical thread like this, is what sort of expression will get so-called art cancelled by the manipulative wokesters.

Actually, it’s not a new low, it’s entirely routine at this point.

Can you give an example of art that has been “cancelled” by this group of ne’er do wells?

What’s wrong? You don’t want to be a better person?

How would you know what that’s like.

Man, did you seriously think anyone was going to take your obvious bait? Never mind me, just … anyone?

Wait, did I miss a “Cancel Pepe” campaign a year ago? The WokeNet has clearly failed me…

The problem is you don’t even understand what’s being discussed.

I’m not sure if that was supposed to be a response to my post, but if it was, then that’s not an example of art that is cancelled by “manipulative wokesters”, that is a studio choosing to no longer produce new content with a particular character.

Bad enough that people are demanding that Amazon carry things they don’t want to carry, but you want to demand that a studio produce content that they don’t want to produce?

I, for one, will not allow Warner Bros. Television Projects to take from our great culture a beloved character that shows the positive side of rape and humanizes rapists.
Octopus and I will be handing out petitions at the next meeting.

Maybe it’s just my perception, but it is interesting to me that threads like this (“cancel culture”/culture war bullshit) seem to have much more involvement from members who identify as “conservative” than threads dealing with actual policies like the Texas electrical grid or Republican’s attempts to curb democracy.

This will be the issue in 2022 and 2024. Republican leaders aren’t about policies or the running of an efficient government, they’re about the stoking of feelings of victimhood in their party’s base.

Well of course. Republicans will be happy to freeze to death in a winter storm as long as you give them someone to blame other than themselves.

It joins the ignominious list that includes (“They’re coming for your”) guns, abortion, and same-sex marriage.

When you have no ideas, the Culture War is all you have.

And when far too many of your voters couldn’t comprehend a debate on the issues, … ibid.

I am just not understanding what you find wrong with this:

Should WB always use the character no matter what, because choosing to not write it into scripts is fundamentally wrong?

Which scripts should be required to include the character, and why?

Should they only choose to not use the character if the reason has nothing to do with their own determination of its appropriateness?

You have yet to articulate an understandable and coherent complaint, let alone a possible solution or action step.

I’m not saying people shouldn’t have control over their IP. I am saying that there are nutty factions that have a disproportionate weight in what is acceptable to exist and that to prevent further emboldening they should not be appeased. I thought it was bad when TSR placated the religious by taking demons and devils out during 2nd edition D&D.

I understand that corporations are frightened of the online and offline mob but nothing good is going to come from this current trend. Either it’s going to continue to get more and more absurd or there will be a vicious backlash.

There already is. You are a perfect example. Vicious in the most chuckleheaded way.

But you’re going to get smashed by reality yet again, because you and the rest of your conservative neanderthals are on the wrong side of history again.

If you’re wondering. Yes, we will take great pleasure bashing you in the face with goodness over and over. We will make all the shit you’ve celebrated for decades so opprobrious that even your slimiest underrock dwellers will be reluctant to drag it into the light.

I do. And that’s what it is. You being crushed by the giant boulder of oppression shrugged off by the people you’ve been oppressing since forever.

What you’re missing is the fact that what you’re calling “woke” is actually the backlash. It’s backlash against centuries of WASP cultural hegemony, and it’s entirely appropriate.

I’ve seen enough of your arguments to understand that when you’re entirely out of arguments, you allude to some sort of dangerous boogeyman that you don’t want to spell out, but it really seems like you’re wishcasting for stronger people to put things right for you.

Not a spell in 2nd edition D&D.

Right, and by this, you are talking about people who demand that the owners of Seuss properties to publish books that they don’t want to, for animation studios to write and draw a character that they don’t want to?

What’s the difference between a “nutty faction” and a “cultural shift”?

What makes the choice to not continue writing for the Pepe Le Pew character a response to a “nutty faction” while the choice to continue writing for Pepe Le Pew would be a response to [normal people?]?

How has a nutty faction influenced WB in this instance in a way that is fundamentally different than any other response they might make to changes in the market?

How is the choice to not write Pepe Le Pew into some current scripts “absurd”?

Still, you haven’t articulated what your problem is with corporations responding to the preferences of the market when they decide what art to sell and what art to shelve, or why the choice to stop writing a cartoon skunk character who physically forces himself on women is problematic. It seems like you’re suggesting that WB should not make that call, and that we’re all worse off because they did.