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Originally Posted by DMSmillie
There's a hell of a lot of discrimination out there, still, on the basis of sexual orientation, and it's right that people should stand up against it and speak out against it.
In this case, though, as far as I know we simply don't have anywhere near enough information to know or be able to state that that is why these two books were dropped. If one could show a systematic pattern of books containing same-gender sex being dropped, while similar books containing opposite-gender sex are not, then it would be different. Simply being able to point to books with opposite-gender sex that haven't been dropped isn't sufficient on its own, though, since one can equally well point to other books with same-gender sex that haven't been dropped. There needs to be a perceivable pattern with significant differences in the sexual orientations portrayed in books dropped by Amazon in order to demonstrate that it's the result of prejudice and discrimination, and not just, for example, ad hoc responses to complaints or adverse publicity about specific books.
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You're right that it's impossible to prove a pattern of discrimination based on two data points. That doesn't change my opinion though, that that is exactly what's going on.