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Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay

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Post by question000 »

throwaway3699 wrote: post #152
question000 wrote: post #103

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I'm just so offended that you would economically harm all the good people working at EBay due to political stances they might not even agree with. People are so reactionary these days. This is the real cancel culture.

Is this sarcasm? eBay is a publicly traded multi-billion dollar corporation. If they do something I hate, why would I ever shop there again?

No I'm dead serious, you are actually doing the thing you are claiming to prevent. There's a new Red Scare going around and it's costing people their livelihoods. First Ebay canceled, then all American companies, then all of America.

Don't want to be a mouth piece for a 50 year old children writer? Canceled! It's basically just virtue signaling, but the effects are huge.

Going to any Christian owned businesses? Are they canceled too because they burned Galio's books? Rank hypocrisy. Go my tribe I guess.

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Post by jetrink »

eric4smith wrote: post #70

A bit off-topic, but I use Green Eggs and Ham to help teach my friends English here in Asia. It works pretty well, since there is quite a limited vocabulary. And it's pretty magical! I can have someone reading aloud from the book quite fluently, with extremely limited english skills, after only a few hours. The other part is, because of the superior illustration skills of the author, people quickly understand the dif…

> It works pretty well, since there is quite a limited vocabulary.

You probably know this already, but that was due to a bet!

> The vocabulary of the text consists of just 50 words and was the result of a bet between Seuss and Bennett Cerf, Dr. Seuss's publisher, that Seuss (after completing The Cat in the Hat using 236 words) could not complete an entire book without exceeding that limit. The 50 words are a, am, and, anywhere, are, be, boat, box, car, could, dark, do, eat, eggs, fox, goat, good, green, ham, here, house, I, if, in, let, like, may, me, mouse, not, on, or, rain, Sam, say, see, so, thank, that, the, them, there, they, train, tree, try, will, with, would, you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Eggs_and_Ham

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Post by brailsafe »

op00to wrote: post #142
brailsafe wrote: post #117

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That's scary and possibly illegal.

How is it illegal?

I don't know, but it just feels like it could be. It can certainly be illegal in some places if you intentionally misgender someone, so if the bar is that low, anything more reasonable isn't that fanciful.

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Post by _-david-_ »

fasteddie31003 wrote: post #78

Is there a historical precedent for when the side who advocates banning books turned out to be the side of good?

Here are some examples that a majority of people likely agree should be burned and are probably on the side of good

- books containing literal child porn

- books with troop locations and movement during an ongoing war

- books with current nuclear launch codes

I am not sure how many of those have any historical precedence though.

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Post by [deleted] »

slg wrote: post #185
supernova87a wrote: post #55

Now this part is getting a little too carried away. It is one thing for libraries and bookstores to decide not to offer for borrowing or sale things that they disagree with. It is another (and overstepping imo) for Ebay to restrict individual people from selling to others goods that are not illegal or in violation of their other practical rules (no selling jewelry, monetary equivalents, etc). This falls into the cate…

Maybe you are not familiar with eBay's existing policies, but this seems to fall well in line with their prior behavior. From their official policy [1]: >Listings that promote, perpetuate or glorify hatred, violence, or discrimination, including on the grounds of race, ethnicity, color, religion, gender or sexual orientation, aren't allowed. This includes but is not limited to the following: ... >Items with racist, a…

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Post by easton »

chroem- wrote: post #81
abhorrence wrote: post #77

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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."

What was the replacement phrase? “Team” is the only replacement I can possibly think of but that makes you sound like an unfeeling robot.

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Post by eplanit »

nullserver wrote: post #145
refurb wrote: post #119

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Yup. The adults in the room should have nipped this crap in the bud but instead they entertained it. Now it’s a much bigger problem to solve. Check out SFUSD renaming racists schools like “Lincoln High”. Eventually parents had start a recall effort to end it.

It’s dangerous to complain about this stuff. Was at one place that routinely trashed white males, of which I happened to be. Caught hell when I tried to push back. Sadly this seems like it’s becoming the norm.

It's authoritarianism and cultural revolution: there is not a contest of ideas, but a demand for obedience.

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Post by temp667 »

nullserver wrote: post #156
abhorrence wrote: post #77

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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 learned the hard way that using a persons name instead of desired pronoun is a major offense.

It is, I do this routinely because I'm constantly meeting people and don't have desired pronounces in front of me.
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