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NOT SATIRE: BOOK INDUSTRY APOLOGIZES FOR NOT BURNING BOOK SAYING BOYS AND GIRLS ARE DIFFERENT BEFORE PEOPLE COULD READ IT
The Federalist ^ | 7/15/2021 | Jordan Davidson

Posted on 07/15/2021 10:35:40 AM PDT by Signalman

The American Booksellers Association apologized on Wednesday for including a book about the harms that come with allowing gender-confused children to “transition” in their July promotional box.

ABA first labeled Abigail Shrier’s book “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters” as “anti-trans” after receiving backlash on social media. In response, the association apologized for committing the “inexcusable” crime of promoting literature offering an alternative perspective.

“This is a serious, violent incident that goes against ABA’s ends policies, values, and everything we believe and support,” ABA tweeted. “We apologize to our trans members and to the trans community for this terrible incident and the pain we caused them. We also apologize to the LGBTQIA+ community at large, and to our bookselling community.”

The company went on to conclude that “apologies are not enough” and that moving forward, the people at ABA are “committed to engaging in the critical dialogue needed to inform concrete steps to address the harm we caused.”

The apology, while filled with regret mixed with extreme claims about Shrier’s book, did not appear to be enough for the mob who pressured the association into issuing another groveling statement on Wednesday night about the inclusion of Shrier’s book and another “racist” incident where the association confused “right-wing extremist” Candace Owens’ book “Blackout” with another novel.

“We traumatized and endangered members of the trans community. We erased Black authors, conflated Black authors, and put the authors in danger through a forced association. We further marginalized communities we want to support,” ABA CEO Allison Hill wrote. “There is nothing that I can say that will make this right. This should not have happened. I want to apologize for both of these harms and for the pain that ABA caused.”

“But I know only action matters,” she continued. “These were egregious, harmful acts that caused violence and pain. One negligent, irresponsible, and racist; the other negligent, irresponsible, and transphobic.”

The ABA board of directors also weighed in with their own thoughts that the organization has “systemic problems” and “institutional failures and biases” that need to be addressed.

“These incidents harmed booksellers, ABA board members, and ABA staff who identify as LGBTQIA+ and/or BIPOC, as well as the wider community. They also added to a toxic culture overall,” the board wrote. “We are not the ABA of two years ago. These actions are antithetical to the values we are working to promote in our organization under the strong leadership of our CEO, Allison Hill, and COO, Joy Dallanegra-Sanger. This is not acceptable behavior and goes against the bylaws changes instituted last year.”

Shrier responded to the ABA and said “if there were a Hall of Fame for capitulations to Woke bullies, the American Booksellers Association is hereby inducted.”

“The ‘serious, violent incident’ they perpetrated? Including my book in a large box of new book samples sent out to independent booksellers,” she tweeted.

Trans activists previously tried to cancel Shrier and her bestselling book from Target and other bookshelves all across the nation shortly after it was published. Just this week, two Amazon employees reportedly quit after big tech oligarch Amazon declined to bow to their demands that the company stops selling and profiting off of Shrier’s “transphobic” work.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bookburning; homofascism; thefederalist; xyxx
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1 posted on 07/15/2021 10:35:40 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: Signalman

The sexually confused need to be ignored.


2 posted on 07/15/2021 10:39:56 AM PDT by DonaldC (A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
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3 posted on 07/15/2021 10:40:36 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Signalman

Bookmark


4 posted on 07/15/2021 10:41:31 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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5 posted on 07/15/2021 10:44:12 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: Signalman

The groveling submission is disgusting.


6 posted on 07/15/2021 10:45:32 AM PDT by I want the USA back (To find out who really rules you, find out who you're not allowed to criticize. Voltaire. )
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To: Signalman

“This is a serious, violent incident...”
Note that the language liberals in reference to conservatives has gone over the top in hysteria. Their next step is to take any steps necessary to silence conservatives because they’re so eeeeevil.


7 posted on 07/15/2021 10:50:42 AM PDT by Demiurge2 (Define your terms!)
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To: Signalman
The American Booksellers Association apologized on Wednesday for including a book about the harms that come with allowing gender-confused children to “transition” in their July promotional box.

Any sane person of normal intelligence recognizes that gender confusion is a mental defect and deserves a compassionate cure, not to be accepted as a sex change.

8 posted on 07/15/2021 10:55:40 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: aquila48

Your bookmark will be useless if they burn your book....;^)


9 posted on 07/15/2021 11:03:45 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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“This is a serious, violent incident that goes against ABA’s ends policies, values, and everything we believe and support,”

So now we are going to redefine what the word violent means?

10 posted on 07/15/2021 11:04:38 AM PDT by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: Signalman

The pedocrats are behind everything.


11 posted on 07/15/2021 11:06:07 AM PDT by Trillian
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To: Signalman

Objective truth exists and is real. Never apologize for believing objective truth Those who are upset about objective truth can change the way they feel by changing their own subjective thoughts and beliefs.


12 posted on 07/15/2021 11:15:09 AM PDT by mjp (pro-freedom & pro-wealth $)
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So now we are going to redefine what the word violent means?

Well, they already redefined what boys and girls are.


13 posted on 07/15/2021 11:18:21 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Red Badger

XTC - Books Are Burning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rx55LfTRLs


14 posted on 07/15/2021 11:20:50 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Signalman
LGBTQIA+ and/or BIPOC

WTF? I lost track after "T."

I prefer to call them by the all inclusive pronoun "She, He, It and/or Transgender," or I just use the acronym S.H.I.T.

15 posted on 07/15/2021 11:34:45 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (Dementia Joe is Not My President!)
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To: Signalman

The publishing industry is second only to advertising when it comes to cramming insane PC down its customers’ throats. It’s no coincidence: they’re run by the same people.


16 posted on 07/15/2021 11:45:58 AM PDT by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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The publishing industry

It's also the primary means of funneling cash to Democrats, through book deals, for books that don't even sell, see Hillary.

17 posted on 07/15/2021 11:46:54 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Good point! And the bestseller lists are certainly manipulated.


18 posted on 07/15/2021 11:51:36 AM PDT by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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To: dfwgator

Gingrich used Jim Wright’s book scam to sink him.


19 posted on 07/15/2021 11:52:45 AM PDT by Reily
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To: Signalman

Save your old books and bury them deep—the bookburners will be coming for them soon enough...


20 posted on 07/15/2021 12:01:41 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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