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Old 05-13-2011, 10:48 PM   #210
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Originally Posted by Xanthe View Post
A company deciding not to sell a certain type of what might be considered pornographic material is not comparable in degree to a broad class of people being denied their right to housing or to vote or to marry, to people being threatened with job loss because of their weight, etc. To try to raise it to that level winds up making "discrimination" a throw-away term, to be used in any instance ranging from a fit of pique to a racially-motivated murder.
Speaking of extreme positions, where was it said that these two unrelated situations were equivalent? And even given that they're not, so what? Should people in the civil rights movements have just shrugged their shoulders and said "You know, the Jews had it a lot worse"?

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My point is, and has been, that Amazon removing a certain type of yaoi is insignificant
And my point remains that you're wrong. Just because a certain type of discrimination doesn't affect you or me doesn't make it a non-issue.

As far as being an Amazon basher, you've brought that up several times, aside from the fact that I'm a big Amazon defender, it's really irrelevant to this discussion.

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