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.
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.)