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Originally Posted by carld
I think it's exactly as big a deal as people are claiming. This isn't the first time Amazon has targeted gay material for special treatment while leaving similar straight material alone. I don't see it as anything but anti-gay discrimination.
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Sorry, but I call BS.
The biggest dust-up was well over a year ago, due to a minor change in one of the databases; no books were pulled and the error was quickly corrected.
In this case, Amazon pulled a book of straight "incest erotica" a week or two ago, as well as a book featuring pedophilia. You're clearly unaware of the recent context -- both in terms of how absolutely minor this is, and how the few similar isolated incidents are not focusing on gay erotica.
And, of course, there is an absolute ton of gay erotica and other pro-gay books that are still available, not to mention extending health insurance benefits to domestic partners.
Referring to this incident as evidence of a pattern of anti-gay discrimination is, to put it mildly, absurdly hyperbolic and excessively sensitive.