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To: NetAddicted

In any case, it’s laughable and hypocritical to hear the left complain about book banning when they’ve engaged in censorship of ideas and opinions they disagree with. They were quite fine with how Twitter was censoring conservatives, with conservative speakers being shouted down, physically assaulted, and chased off of college campuses, complaining about conservatives being given a voice on various platforms such as Trump’s townhall meeting on CNN.

Antifa Demands Powell’s Stop Selling Andy Ngo’s Book, Forces Store To Close Early”

This book will not be on our store shelves, and we will not promote it. That said, it will remain in our online catalogue.”

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.

https://reason.com/2021/01/11/powells-books-antifa-andy-ngo-store-censorship/


5 posted on 05/13/2023 5:48:42 AM PDT by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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To: lowbridge

I’ll bet it feels awful for the lefties to be on the receiving end for a change!


6 posted on 05/13/2023 5:57:04 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: lowbridge

Exactly so.


8 posted on 05/13/2023 8:47:29 AM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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