Am I not alone in thinking this Neo-puritanism is going too far?
Youre absolutely not alone. Im reaching a breaking point where I would not care how society treats Im bot going to let the new puritans take over.
Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay
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#42What bothers me is the speed with which this process - "accused -> convinced -> executed" happens. We are not discussing things anymore. Today, you could tweet any accusations, and, no matter how ridiculous they look at first, it will lead to a race of who is taking them most seriously. Something definitely is broken. Look at what happened to the "okay". 4chan forced that meme 5 years ago in what they thought is a mi…
For some 'fun' just search for 'is x racist'. What o-word are you referring to, ordinary? ok? https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/04/air-pollutio...
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
> eBay deciding unilaterally that people can't buy or sell already-printed copies eBay isn't deciding that, it is deciding unilaterally that it will not participate in the buying or selling of those items. eBay probably has no interest and in any case has no power to make decisions about what can be bought and sold, only about what it will participate as a facilitator of buying and selling.
Good point! Well I guess I'll just go and buy my copy at the other well known online auction site... what was it called again? /s eBay has a natural monopoly due to the nature of auctions. If they decide not to list something, it becomes at the very least much harder to trade.
> Well I guess I’ll just go and buy my copy at the other well known online auction site…
Online auctions aren’t the only places to buy and sell goods.
They aren’t even the only places to buy and sell goods online.
Plenty of places still selling them (though, because of the announcement that they won’t be published, prices are insane right now, as they’ve become instant high-interest speculative collectibles.)
Re: Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay
#44Wait till they find out about his views of women: https://www.drseussart.com/secretandarchive/booby-trap.
Joking of course, but if all you've seen of Seuss is the kids books, take a look at his other artwork: https://www.drseussart.com/secretandarchive
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#45Re: Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay
#46Private company pulls their own books. How is this news? I still want my original version of Star Wars or ET.
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#47This is what the fall of an empire looks like. If you’re bearish on this being a Chinese century, ponder where this unchecked neo-McCarthyism leads to.
Please don't take HN threads into nationalistic flamewar. This topic is flammable enough as it is.
If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful. They include:
"Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."
Re: Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay
#48What bothers me is the speed with which this process - "accused -> convinced -> executed" happens. We are not discussing things anymore. Today, you could tweet any accusations, and, no matter how ridiculous they look at first, it will lead to a race of who is taking them most seriously. Something definitely is broken. Look at what happened to the "okay". 4chan forced that meme 5 years ago in what they thought is a mi…
For some 'fun' just search for 'is x racist'. What o-word are you referring to, ordinary? ok? https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/04/air-pollutio...
I assumed "oriental"?
Re: Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay
#49Surprised by the majority of comments here. How many of you have actually looked at these pictures? A private entity decided to stop publishing certain things. Another private entity is declining to sell old copies of said things. This is not “cancel culture” like conservative commentators want to make it out to be - and I think the publisher and now eBay are making the right call - children are impressionable, and p…
I don't need a company to tell me what books I'm allowed to read to my kids.
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#50Earlier this week when the story from the publisher broke, I had a look on ebay to see if these books were available. The ones I found were already listed for over $100.