Spare me. That is the single most ridiculous analogy I’ve seen today.
A bookseller can decide to stock a violent white supremacist fantasy novel based on The Turner Diaries if it wants, and I can call out that same bookseller publicly for making the decision to stock the book.https://twitter.com/DrDan_Biotech/status/1212545083461062656 …
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Seriously, this sort of thinking equating criticism of a booksellers’ decision to stock a hateful book with book burning basically says that you can never criticize a booksellers’ decisions to stock a book if you believe in freedom of speech.
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It’s a false dilemma. You can do both: Support the bookseller’s right to stock whatever he wants while criticizing him when he stocks something vile like this.
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Freedom of speech is not freedom from criticism. I will defend a bookstore's right to stock the book while simultaneously refusing to shop there. This is how it works.
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Yes, support their right to stock the book, and criticize their decision to stock the book. You can do both, they're not mutually exclusive.
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