Posted on 01/12/2021 1:58:50 PM PST by karpov
Far-left activists surrounded Powell's Books in Portland on Monday and demanded the store stop selling Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy, a book about antifa written by Andy Ngo. The protests forced the store to close early.
Powell's announced that it would not carry the book in its physical store, though it will still be available for purchase online.
"This book will not be on our store shelves, and we will not promote it," said Powell's in a statement. "That said, it will remain in our online catalogue. We carry books that we find anywhere from simply distasteful or badly written, to execrable, as well as those that we treasure. We believe it is the work of bookselling to do so."
Ngo, who has documented antifa's tactics for various conservative news websites and was once attacked by the group, tweeted video footage of the protesters. One such protester claimed that disrupting the book's dissemination was akin to "stopping the historical publication of Hitler's 'Mein Kampf.'"
Powell's noted that the store is committed to free speech, and previously received "credible bomb threats" for selling books by Salman Rushdie, whose 1988 book The Satanic Verses made the author a target of Islamic extremists:
(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...
Patriots are so getting their asses handed to them.
How very woke of them. Wouldn’t surprise me if they started in on burning books.
You think Powell’s is/are patriots???
No idea, but Andy Ngo is a conservative journalist.
Seems to me they wouldn’t be this upset if there wasn’t some element of truth to the content of the book.
pre-ordered a copy from Amazon, I don’t expect I’ll actually get this, I suspect Amazon will stop the book sales and refund my cash
Cowards abound...
Will Lie-brarians highlight this book next September during Banned Book Week?
Barry Bonzo’s Nazi Gestapo is at it again.
But we’ve been told that Antifa is only an idea.
Andy Ngo is a small, gay, asian guy.
I’m not sure of his politics. I’m sure he’s marked for death by Antifa.
And that single digit I.Q. Cauliphonya moron, Ahnold, calls US the Nazis. I always knew the boy wasn’t very bright.
Don’t use Amazon for anything!
That Bezos WaPo Borg deplatformed Parler yesterday.
My order went through bookshop.org.
I get an e-mail from Barnes & Noble every day it seems touting the latest books. Like clothing store ads, you’d think that at least half of the nation’s authors (and book buyers) are black. Of course Obama’s latest autobiography is a must read. Today’s feature was:
2021 is shaping up to be a banner year for Black authors. Angie Thomas has crafted a stunning prequel to The Hate U Give which is sure to start much-needed conversations about family, community and what it means to be a Black man. Plus, we want to put Mateo Askaripour’s debut novel, Black Buck, on your radar — it’s Sorry to Bother You meets The Wolf of Wall Street that calls the American dream into question. Happy reading!
ANGIE THOMAS
Angie Thomas has delivered yet another pitch-perfect return to Garden Heights, set seventeen years before The Hate U Give. In Concrete Rose, we meet a young Maverick Carter — he’s not yet Starr’s father, but at seventeen years old himself, he already knows the importance of taking care of his family. This raw and eye-opening exploration into what it means to be a man in the Black community is a must read.
The Beautiful Struggle
TA-NEHISI COATES
Adapted for teens from the adult memoir, this father-son story explores family struggles, generational differences and how to be proud to be Black in a racist society.
Black Buck
MATEO ASKARIPOUR
A darkly comic novel about a young Black man named Darren, who moves from trying workplace drama to a rollercoaster journey of self-actualization.
I did the same thing, but I suspct all I did was get marked as a conservative for the hive mind left.
Thanks ordering now. Any thing to help Andy Ngo out.
More on Andy:
https://www.opb.org/news/series/racenw/immigrants-vietnam-oregon-conservative-worldview/
does it matter, dim bulb? Clearly to the Marxists she is. Know your real enemy.
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