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re: Never thought I’d live in a time where I was worried if I’ll be able to get certain books
Posted on 3/4/21 at 6:45 pm to jlovel7
Posted on 3/4/21 at 6:45 pm to jlovel7
How many millions of copies of Mcelligot's pool were sold? I don't think you will have any trouble finding one.
Books have been banned in the US, quite recently. These books aren't being banned.
But continue the hysteria please.
PS. I will sell you all of my Dr Seuss books and I have all the good ones, for $500 each. The covers may be a little distressed, there is writing and coloring and maybe some drool in them but otherwise perfect condition.
Books have been banned in the US, quite recently. These books aren't being banned.
But continue the hysteria please.
PS. I will sell you all of my Dr Seuss books and I have all the good ones, for $500 each. The covers may be a little distressed, there is writing and coloring and maybe some drool in them but otherwise perfect condition.
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Posted on 3/4/21 at 6:56 pm to ecb
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PS. I will sell you all of my Dr Seuss books and I have all the good ones, for $500 each. The covers may be a little distressed, there is writing and coloring and maybe some drool in them but otherwise perfect condition.
What if Dr. Suess's estate stopped printing the books but now can unload their warehouse of unsold copies for $500 a pop on ebay?
Posted on 3/4/21 at 8:24 pm to thedrumdoctor
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If you support true freedom, then you support companies making whatever decisions they want.
That's not freedom. It's censorship.
Posted on 3/5/21 at 8:40 am to DaleGribble
We have our previous President being cancelled and banned from twitter, youtube and most social media sites. Dr. Seuss is a symptom of a HUGE problem. They are changing names of schools named after Abraham Lincoln because his way of thinking at the time wasn’t perfect enough for today’s standards. We have a situation on our hands the likes of which we have yet to ever see in this country.
This post was edited on 3/5/21 at 8:42 am
Posted on 3/5/21 at 9:23 am to DaleGribble
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That's not freedom. It's censorship.
Y'all need a dictionary.
Posted on 3/5/21 at 10:07 am to BigDawg0420
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Children these days will be sheltered from any type of “offensive” theme and as a result will grow up unable to handle real life.
Although this would be bad enough to fight it, it is way beyond this in intent and scope.
There will be an ever narrowing scope so that ONLY right speech is tolerated and wrong speech is destroyed. We're approaching the halfway mark from freedom of expression to this. Maybe at or slightly past the halfway mark, but certainly approaching it at this point.
And it can speed up dramatically with a well-timed crisis.
Posted on 3/5/21 at 10:37 am to Musashi
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Dr. Seuss is a symptom of a HUGE problem.
But it's not Dr. Seuss. A small fraction of his published works will no longer be printed by the publisher who currently owns the rights. That small fraction includes books almost no one here had ever heard of before this story. The publisher can sell the rights to another company. They can sell them back to the family estate who can then sell them to someone else.
Nothing has been banned, the books will still be widely available and accessible, and multiple companies and a rich family will end up getting large paydays. The libs get to idiotically fawn over a "progressive" company, conveniently ignoring any larger issues. The conservatives get to act outraged at something they don't actually give a shite about, and which they definitely didn't research or understand, which is all they seemingly want anyway. Everybody wins.
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We have a situation on our hands the likes of which we have yet to ever see in this country.
We've seen companies do whatever they want since the dawn of this country, and earlier. This is a private company doing whatever it wants.
Posted on 3/5/21 at 10:38 am to Musashi
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We have a situation on our hands the likes of which we have yet to ever see in this country.
Meh. Various groups have advocated for banning certain books from school reading lists and libraries my entire life. When I was in high school there was a big fracas in my town over us being assigned to read The Scarlet Letter. A local evangelical church lead that fight, and they had a list of several books they wanted removed from school libraries. There was a recent one in some Alabama town over To Kill a Mockingbird. Huckleberry Finn has been the target of several efforts over the years.
Posted on 3/5/21 at 11:18 am to Jay Are
Also, most publishing contracts have clauses where if a publisher chooses not to publish a work for a certain period of time, they no longer have exclusivity or some other similar type language / scenario.
Posted on 3/5/21 at 8:56 pm to pvilleguru
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Y'all need a dictionary.
Why? To look up the recently updated definition of racism? You can't even count on dictionaries anymore.
You need a history book. Try reading up on Germany in the 1920s and 30s.
Posted on 3/5/21 at 10:09 pm to jlovel7
I didn’t read all the replies - but what scares me too are the librarians
I am a librarian - when I went to library school (dorky I know) we basically learned that the public library was the keeper of the books - of any type of book.
Holocaust denier books, pro Hitler books, magic books, Satan’s Bible, etc. you name it public library had it ...
Now the librarians are censoring and that’s bad - that’s not what I was taught to do
I am a librarian - when I went to library school (dorky I know) we basically learned that the public library was the keeper of the books - of any type of book.
Holocaust denier books, pro Hitler books, magic books, Satan’s Bible, etc. you name it public library had it ...
Now the librarians are censoring and that’s bad - that’s not what I was taught to do
Posted on 3/5/21 at 10:55 pm to DaleGribble
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Why? To look up the recently updated definition of racism? You can't even count on dictionaries anymore.
You apparently need to look up what a dictionary is, how they're used, and why they exist. You have it incorrect.
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You need a history book. Try reading up on Germany in the 1920s and 30s.
Saying this tells us all that you've never read a nonfiction text about this era.
Posted on 3/5/21 at 10:56 pm to GreenRockTiger
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Now the librarians are censoring and that’s bad - that’s not what I was taught to do
And you have some examples of this that include more than your branch cycling out old books that never get checked out?
Posted on 3/6/21 at 12:54 am to Jay Are
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And you have some examples of this that include more than your branch cycling out old books that never get checked out?
Weeding is getting rid of old books that do not circulate
Censoring is not putting books on the shelf that the librarian doesn’t agree with
Big difference.
Satan’s Bible got checked out and stolen so many times we had to put it in the reference section (no more check out)
Censoring is taking Ender’s Game off the shelf bc the author is Anti-LGBTQ
Posted on 3/6/21 at 7:04 am to GreenRockTiger
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Satan’s Bible
What?
Posted on 3/6/21 at 2:34 pm to pvilleguru
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Satan’s Bible
What?
Sorry, the actual name is The Satanic Bible by Anton LaVey.
Posted on 3/6/21 at 5:30 pm to GreenRockTiger
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Weeding is getting rid of old books that do not circulate
Censoring is not putting books on the shelf that the librarian doesn’t agree with
Big difference.
I know the difference.
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Censoring is taking Ender’s Game off the shelf bc the author is Anti-LGBTQ
Let's just say that I highly doubt your library has done this with Ender’s Game, and that I know the vast majority of libraries have not done this. And that Ender’s Game is still widely used by teachers in middle schools across the country.
Posted on 3/6/21 at 11:28 pm to Jay Are
Any time that you want to talk history, just say the word.
Might also want to crack open the newest Merriam-Webster, while you're at it.
Updated Definition Of Racism
Might also want to crack open the newest Merriam-Webster, while you're at it.
Updated Definition Of Racism
Posted on 3/6/21 at 11:30 pm to Jay Are
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I know the difference.
Clearly, you don't.
Posted on 3/7/21 at 11:52 am to DaleGribble
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Might also want to crack open the newest Merriam-Webster, while you're at it.
Right. What I was saying to you, and what you completely failed to infer, is that you don't understand what a dictionary is. It is the actual job of people writing dictionaries to update definitions. Dictionaries do not exist to perform the function you seem to believe they do, or at least that is the case for MW, Websters, and other descriptive, non-specialty dictionary publishers. We add words, we remove words, we change words, because language evolves and changes. Every word in that dictionary has been updated multiple times, we don't speak the way, nor should we, that English speakers 400 years ago did. Racism was added at some point in the early 1900s, and its definition has changed throughout the decades. Should this word not even be in the dictionary because it's only a hundred-something years old? Maybe you can only handle the words we've been using for centuries like "of" and "a" and "is". But shite, you can't use "is" either because a few centuries ago it was spelled "if" and they updated its spelling to better reflect how English was evolving and being used. How dare they change that. Aren't you just outraged?
So while you're puffing yourself up about knowing so much history, bro, maybe you should go look up what a dictionary, like Merriam-Webster, actually is and how it is written, updated, and used.
Good job at using a condescending tone to communicate that you don't know things.
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