quote Originally posted by theBDub: Think about the opposite of what you are suggesting. Should Disney be required to continue selling copies of Song of the South? Should old racist toys be required to be sold? How about books that teach about “n*****s” as less than? Do we require all books that have ever been published to continue to be published? If we aren’t allowed to self-censorship, what right to our own speech do we have? If we aren’t allowed to look on our past word choice, opinions, products, etc. and determine they don’t reflect us today, then how can we even make good decisions today? These books weren’t outlawed, they were determined by the owner to not be worth publishing anymore. Remember: Everyone upset about this is upset about a private company making a private decision. If I hadn’t come to expect this, I’d call it shocking. But here we are.

I think you're looking at this from a perspective different than others. I don't think anyone is saying that they should be FORCED to sell books that are distasteful or (whatever)... but there are a lot of books that are still currently being published that you can buy that would be considered distasteful.

Mein Kampf, by Hitler... for example, is a book that you can currently purchase off Amazon. I own a copy of it. Hopefully that isn't a shock to anyone. I am not anti-Semitic, and that shouldn't even need to be explained. My wife is Jewish, and I certainly do not support Socialism, let alone the National Socialist Workers Party. But I bought it because of history and wanting to understand what drove someone to do what they did. I have a lot of books that are distasteful, and some books that are very tasteful.

I think, with Dr. Seuss, for example... if there was something they found offensive, why not just change the artwork they felt was improper? Why is the Land-O-Lakes butter considered bigoted? Have any native American tribes complained?

The problem I have is that the overwhelming vast majority of "CHANGE" that is being made... is not done because some specific group is offended. It's being done entirely by young white Millennial progressives who believe that their intellect is superior, and that blacks, Hispanics, and native Americans are too stupid, weak, and victimized to have their own voice... so the white "intellectuals" need to be the voice for them.

Another great example is Florida State University. They have a guy who dresses up as a native American on a horse with feathers...and rides around. Their logo is a tomahawk, and also a native American head with feathers.



Sometimes the guy dressing up as the Indian is actually a white guy, sometimes it's an actual native American. Seeing this is extremely triggering to a white Millennial, and there have been huge movements to try to change it. No one bothered to ask the Seminole INDIANS about this. Finally, the Seminole Indian Tribe finally started combating the young uninformed white liberal, and has put out numerous statements that the tribe leadership is VERY proud of FSU's heritage, name, and branding, and they fully stand behind it.

I also put INDIAN in all caps because white liberals have also stated that the term Indian is offensive. In most "liberal" states, there's no such thing as native Americans. I actually never saw a native American until I actually moved to Florida. The native Americans (because of white liberals) pushed the native Americans to the central and southern states. So they never actually bother to ask them. "native American" is a term that was given to them by white liberals because Indian was deemed offensive.

In Florida, there are several native American tribes, and they all refer to themselves as Indians:

- Miccosukee Indian Village: https://village.miccosukee.com/
- Seminole Okalee Indian Village: https://www.semtribe.com/stof


I'm just really, really tired of the "woke" movement... none of it has anything to do with making the world a better place... it's all done entirely for a political agenda.

The reality is... racism and bigotry is almost exclusively a leftist idea:
- KKK: Founded by Democrat party leadership.
- Jim Crowe: Was a Democrat
- Eugenics: A "science" created by Margaret Sanger, a Democrat, to eliminate blacks.
- Planned Parenthood: Created also by Margaret Sanger, a Democrat, to sterilize and abort black babies. Purposely placed in predominantly black and Hispanic neighborhoods.
- Internment Camps: Created by Democrat leadership and used to house Asians (primarily Japanese) in camps.
- Confederacy: All Democrats
- Anti Gay Legislation: The most anti-gay legislation ever passed in the history of America was during the election of President Obama in 2008
- Segregation: pushed ONLY by Democrats
- Trail of Tears...

I'm not even beginning to scratch the surface.


Alternately, nearly every ACTUAL civil rights act was passed by either a majority Republican congress / senate, or by Republican presidents through executive action.

None of what the radical left does right now has anything to do with helping people. It has everything to do with pitting people against each other so they can better CONTROL different groups, and enslave groups by making them permanent victims, and dependent upon the Government. Every single law that Democrats propose or pass makes people dependent upon the government, and never seeks to actually solve a problem, just make it worse.

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'Cowboy' is now a racist term too.

"'Cowboy' was a derogatory term used to describe slaves that tended to the cows and horses."

"“The term ‘cowboy’ evokes the play time—the racist play time—of cowboys and Indians, right?”"

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