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Penguin Random House Staff Confront Publisher About New Jordan Peterson Book (Warning: Article Contains Unintentional Hilarity)
Vice ^ | 24 Nov 2020 | Manisha Krishnan

Posted on 11/24/2020 4:22:33 PM PST by Drew68

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To: Leaning Right
I fear this will be the new normal, and not just in the publishing industry. Stalinist censorship is creeping in everywhere. Anything the left doesn’t like is not just wrong. It’s also hate speech.

Yes, and the snowflakes do seem to be winning. They control social media where a nose-ringed hippie has the power to censor the President of the United States and as mentioned above, they’re taking control of print publishing as well.

21 posted on 11/24/2020 4:43:35 PM PST by Drew68
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To: Texan5

Not necessarily. A lot of people who want to be Queer but aren’t seriously committed to being a tranny or homosexual just say they’re “nonbinary” so they can get special snowflake points.

It’s such an inherently stupid concept because it actually undermines the other “LGBT” categories by insisting there isn’t even male or female.


22 posted on 11/24/2020 4:44:46 PM PST by Shadow44
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To: Drew68

Hooo-boy. If Penguin publishes Huck Finn in the original text as one of their classics, they’d better dump that one FAST!!!


23 posted on 11/24/2020 4:49:32 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Hope is not a plan. -- Matthew Bracken)
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To: Leaning Right

The Left has sold out to Wall Street and they’re perfectly happy to be their foot soldiers so long as Starbucks makes gay pride coffee cups and Amazon bans bad think books.

The oligarchy is Woke Capital, and it’s hideous.


24 posted on 11/24/2020 4:50:20 PM PST by Shadow44
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To: Ann Archy

Either physically intersex — they do exist — or simply doesn’t feel like either a man or a woman, I suppose.


25 posted on 11/24/2020 4:50:34 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Hope is not a plan. -- Matthew Bracken)
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To: Drew68

Will the Canadian government censor this book?

They can.


26 posted on 11/24/2020 4:56:23 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Ann Archy

“WTF is that?”

When it looks down it cannot discern which set of genitalia is down there.


27 posted on 11/24/2020 4:58:25 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Shadow44

Thanks-so basically it is just another way for some wannabes to say look at me, look at me-es complemente loca...


28 posted on 11/24/2020 4:58:37 PM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Drew68

Back in 1970 or so, George Gilder wrote “Sexual Suicide”, a rather prescient book critical of women’s lib that was received well. It fell out of print because the staff at New York Times book didn’t like it.


29 posted on 11/24/2020 4:58:55 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: Ann Archy

NON BINARY friend!!! LOL!!! WTF is that?


Confused.


30 posted on 11/24/2020 4:59:32 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Drew68

The snowflakes don’t have to purchase or read Peterson’s new book, they just have to perform their jobs. This is the inmates running the asylum; thats just Canada, they’ve gone completely nuts and imposed political correctness laws.


31 posted on 11/24/2020 5:07:30 PM PST by fatman6502002 ((The Team The Team The Team - Bo Schembechler circa 1969))
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To: Drew68

Hate speech = liberal blasphemy laws.

And I recommend reading Peterson’s “12 Rules for Life”.


32 posted on 11/24/2020 5:12:36 PM PST by tbw2
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To: fatman6502002

Hate speech = liberal blasphemy laws.


33 posted on 11/24/2020 5:13:01 PM PST by tbw2
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To: Shadow44

They also tried to prevent the publication of JK Rowling’s latest book.


34 posted on 11/24/2020 5:13:21 PM PST by tbw2
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To: BipolarBob

Hate speech = liberal blasphemy laws.


35 posted on 11/24/2020 5:13:33 PM PST by tbw2
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To: Drew68
"Peterson, 58, a University of Toronto professor of psychology turned anti-politiical correctness crusader, first ignited international controversy in September 2016, when he posted a lecture to YouTube stating he refused to use gender neutral pronouns for students and condemning Bill C-16, legislation that increased protections for trans and non-binary Canadians.

Two lies:

1. Peterson does not refuse to use gender pronouns. He refuses to be forced to use gender pronouns.

2. Peterson was not against C-16 because it "increased protections for trans" people, but because it forced people to agree with the entire trans agenda or risk losing employment, being fined, and maybe even going to jail.

36 posted on 11/24/2020 5:14:00 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not my current tagline.)
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To: Drew68

Burn before publishing.


37 posted on 11/24/2020 5:22:19 PM PST by IndispensableDestiny
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To: Shadow44

I’ll have to look for those authors...I collect “old” books that would not be pc today.


38 posted on 11/24/2020 5:26:07 PM PST by goodnesswins (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution." -- Saul Alinksy)
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To: Drew68

The book industry lead the book burning craze


39 posted on 11/24/2020 5:30:43 PM PST by Rocko Jack
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To: goodnesswins

Anything that is from the 1920s to the 1950s and is classified as “pulp” is in that category. The hipsters may seethe at it for being “vulgar” and done by “hack writers” but I regularly had to look words up when reading them. Meanwhile any New York Times Bestseller author today is at best a 7th grade reading level.

Some good neglected authors are Seabury Quinn, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, and Clark Ashton Smith.


40 posted on 11/24/2020 5:34:45 PM PST by Shadow44
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