We’re probably due for another attack on Mark Twain too
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Yes, they made a business decision that continuing to print images like the one below, where the two characters are identified as ‘Africans’ was harmful to their overall brand.pic.twitter.com/3b8GSVCOUF
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But if you want to talk about books being banned for content, let’s talk about this one, which unlike Seuss is actually being forced off library shelves.pic.twitter.com/lcuiVeTlEw
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It's their intellectual property, and their decision whether to continue to publish or not. What part of "this was a business decision" are you having trouble with?
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Publishing 101: (1) Books are published as long as there is a sufficient number of buyers to justify the costs of publication. (2) Boycotted books are a liability to a publisher's entire list. (3) Publishers respond to the possibility of a boycott even w/o threats (see #1).
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"Pretending" that different things are the same and the same things are different depending on who is doing them will always be condemned here.
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