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Originally Posted by Salgueiros
i am all for free speech and i defend the right to freely talk without fearing puynishment for insulting someone. I do feel that political correctness thwarts much of the discussion and debate we should have as a free society.
But this book.... i can't stop feeling sick just by knowing there was or is someone with the perverse audacity to write and publish such a thing. It revolts me and makes me disbelieve a bit in some of my fellow citizens... you tell me it is just a book, but what a punch in my stomach.
I do feel that the limit of my tolerance has been tested with this thing.
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And that is a good sign that it is time to fight for the authors write to write what he wants. When what someone else is saying or writing is so abhorrent to you and others are talking about taking away that persons voice, that is when you have to be able to stand and say no.
Today we are discussing a book that is clearly vile and disgusting. Tomorrow it could be a group of people wanting to ban Harry Potter from the local library or Huck Finn from the school library. It is not always clear that the material is vile and offensive.
I believe Amazon made a good business decision. The author is free to look for another venue to sell his book and people are free to boycott that vendor. The system worked just the way that it should.