I must disagree. Restriction of speech that does not have a nexus with physical violence and is motivated primarily by philosophy or politics is abhorrent, period. That means both the right-wing book-banning/burning and the left-wing speech codes, which often are overreactions to each other. There are plenty of center-left mediums tha…
I must disagree. Restriction of speech that does not have a nexus with physical violence and is motivated primarily by philosophy or politics is abhorrent, period. That means both the right-wing book-banning/burning and the left-wing speech codes, which often are overreactions to each other. There are plenty of center-left mediums that have noted the excesses of leftist academics, students, and politicians - it's not just an obsession of rightward pundits.
That's true. All my Republican friends are quite annoyed with the extremism coming from the right. And my liberal friends, when I ask about canceling Harry Potter or the classics, roll their eyes at such nonsense.
The privately owned bookstores are also wrong. The law USED to say -- perhaps it has gone the way of antitrust and other guardrails -- that a public business, a business open to the PUBLIC, cannot discriminate, cannot impose the personal opinions of its owners. I suppose the Gay Cake Case stopped all that. But the premise remains that if you are open to the public you must be open to all the public; you cannot pick and choose. If you want to be private and impose your private opinions then open a CLUB! So I'm not saying don't stop GOVT from censorship (does that mean there is no longer such a thing as pornography or yelling Fire! in a crowded theatre??), I'm saying stop BOTH from doing it in public forums.
I must disagree. Restriction of speech that does not have a nexus with physical violence and is motivated primarily by philosophy or politics is abhorrent, period. That means both the right-wing book-banning/burning and the left-wing speech codes, which often are overreactions to each other. There are plenty of center-left mediums that have noted the excesses of leftist academics, students, and politicians - it's not just an obsession of rightward pundits.
That's true. All my Republican friends are quite annoyed with the extremism coming from the right. And my liberal friends, when I ask about canceling Harry Potter or the classics, roll their eyes at such nonsense.
The privately owned bookstores are also wrong. The law USED to say -- perhaps it has gone the way of antitrust and other guardrails -- that a public business, a business open to the PUBLIC, cannot discriminate, cannot impose the personal opinions of its owners. I suppose the Gay Cake Case stopped all that. But the premise remains that if you are open to the public you must be open to all the public; you cannot pick and choose. If you want to be private and impose your private opinions then open a CLUB! So I'm not saying don't stop GOVT from censorship (does that mean there is no longer such a thing as pornography or yelling Fire! in a crowded theatre??), I'm saying stop BOTH from doing it in public forums.
The law never said that bookstores have to carry every book. There isn't a bookstore big enough.
Wow. Twisted AND Confused. I will retire from the fray..... (but I take your point; thanks for the clarification, if not the abuse.)