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With what pronouns you're allowed to use to describe yourself? Or what pronouns you're allowed to use to describe others?
I am no longer allowed to refer to my group of cisgendered male companions as "you guys."
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With what pronouns you're allowed to use to describe yourself? Or what pronouns you're allowed to use to describe others?
I am no longer allowed to refer to my group of cisgendered male companions as "you guys."
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> It is one thing for libraries and bookstores to decide not to offer for borrowing or sale things that they disagree with. Private libraries can do whatever they like. Public ones should be required to carry even the most offensive book.
You realize that libraries are not infinite in space or capacity, right? Every book in a library necessarily pushes out some other book that could have been in there but didn't make the cut. Given that, libraries shouldn't be required to carry every book, they should optimize their collections for what their local users want to read. If it turns out that old out of print childrens' books aren't popular, then why shou…
Libraries come and go, and should be treated as temporary collections (fair enough re space constraints). To attempt to erase history (“cancel it”?) is to ignore its teachings.
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I don't need a company to tell me what books I'm allowed to read to my kids.
They aren't though. Does every company that published any book have a responsibility to continue publishing them forever? Of course not.
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ebay does not own the books, but they deny service because they deem these books offensive.
I see 100+ listings for “if I ran a zoo”on ebay. Also see entries on Amazon and used books for sale.
A few months ago I was reading about schools banning the book "To Kill a Mockingbird" because it contains basically the "n" word. I'm not american, and and havent read that book. I watched the movie, through, and it seemed to me to be a very anti racism message.
I think instead of banning, schools should work provide context to kids and teens that read this books, of how society was when they where written, so people don't forget the past, but are able to make better decisions to the future.
What 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…
If you want to send a clear message to eBay you can close your account here. https://www.ebay.com.au/help/account/changing-account-settin... It should not be up to them what is and isn't offensive. I did the same to Netflix last year. Money talks at the end of the day.
and thus, the cancel cold war escalates another step
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m...