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Does it also sell left wing extremist, and pro lgbtq+ items? If so, that’s called a book store.
As much as the bullshit that comes from homophobia and related bigotry, or is not the job of a business to decide what is and isn’t acceptable in terms of beliefs.
You wanna pass a law, fucking awesome. You wanna encourage revolution to make passing a law possible, fucking awesome.
But never, ever should we be okay with a business deciding things in any way. Not the fucking way things need to be done at all. It’s bad enough as is.
In most cases I agree with you, but this is supposed to be a LGBT friendly bookstore. It would be like if Desert Books sold copies of the Satanic Bible. It’s kind of a betrayal of their customer base
Eh, while there is some degree of truth that a person running a store can choose not to stock things based on an arbitrary set of standards (even if that’s by genre or whatever, not necessarily something like this), there’s also the principle that if it is a company rather than a proprietor, things have to be held to a different level of scrutiny, or we run into shit like happened with google, Facebook, twitter, etc, where their interference in the flow of communication causes far more problems than benefits in that regard.
We don’t want Google blocking searches or rejecting emails based on whatever standards the company decides as a profit-for-stockholders entity. It needs to be governed by people without a vested interest.
It’s the same thing with a retailer. No matter how much we despise something that’s being sold, it simply isn’t Amazon’s place to decide what is and isn’t valid writing. It is perfectly fine for our wallets to decide that, or even for us to go through the intentionally complicated process of passing laws to prevent some things.
If this was Ru selling books he likes on his personal website, as a proprietor, I would be fine with him choosing to limit damn near anything he wants. But it isn’t. It’s just another company.
That’s my line.
