Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay

Post by bloaf » Fri, Mar 05, 2021, 2:36 AM UTC

gwright wrote: post #290

breakfastduck wrote: post #114

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Yep. I err on the side of not censoring. However, if they're gonna stop printing a couple of books because of severe racist overtones then whatever. But if they're banning the sale , which then leads to ownership , that's too far. We have to draw a line somewhere. As a heavily left leaning person who feels unnerved about the state of politics at the moment, this decision is extremely discomforting.

> severe racist overtones I haven't seen a good summary of what parts of the withdrawn books were considered inappropriate, but my understanding is that the stronger objection has been to political cartoons that Theodor Seuss Geisel created. I've not seen any assertions (never mind evidence) that the children's books contained "severe racist overtones". To be clear, I'm pushing back on the "severe" adjective. There c…

Post by pbreit » Fri, Mar 05, 2021, 2:38 AM UTC

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…

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Mar 05, 2021, 2:38 AM UTC

hintymad wrote: post #347

I was wondering if Americans learned history of other countries in school. HN users or Americans in general probably think China is a totalitarian country, but even Chinese students are taught in both elementary and high schools, repeatedly, that an authoritarian regime always started with moralizing everything, always started with telling its citizens to hate their neighbors, and always told their citizens that misi…

Post by pbreit » Fri, Mar 05, 2021, 2:41 AM UTC

Igelau wrote: post #288

snicksnak wrote: post #108

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This hypersensitivity all started at universities. Eventually those bubble-wrapped students will enter the workforce and eventually will end up in higher positions in HR or PR departments driving those decisions. No surprise there.

Too late. HR has been moving to make us to stop using: blacklist, whitelist, sanity check, and master. It's a frighteningly difficult exercise in doublethink to take a required security course (produced by a third party) that refers to blacklist and whitelist and then having to self censor your own peer discussions about it.

Post by dingus9 » Fri, Mar 05, 2021, 2:43 AM UTC

Peepootoler wrote: post #162

tomdell wrote: post #16

Surprised 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…

Step 1: privatize everything Step 2: censorship now doesn't exist anymore since "muh private entities, what are you, a commie?" Brilliant. What a beautiful and free society we have created for ourselves.