Lately, John and his side-kick boys have been calling boycotts of vendors like Goya “suppression of speech”, and the decisions by individual book-sellers, not to stock certain books… “book banning”.
This is a very dishonest form of rhetoric. A boycott itself is… speech, against a vendor who supports Trump’s racist policies against the majority of the people who consume Goya’s products. That is not suppression (nor is it “cancel culture”) — that is speech, by people — with their purchasing power. That the Goya CEO’s speech is costing his shareholders a lot of money… is the natural outcome of… his own, ill-advised, odious speech. Both are free expression — but his may have expensive consequences — in the capitalists’ system.
As to book-banning — that term only properly may apply to governmental entities. Amazon is simply a corner bookstore. The book is available world-wide from thousands of other book-sellers. Nothing is… banned, here.
And again — Amazon’s “boycott” of a defamatory book against Trudeau’s clear-eyed policies — is itself… speech. It is free speech AGAINST habitual liars. Get used to it, John. Many of your own former advertisers have boycotted your blog, due to your… habitual lies.
Karma’s a wheel man.
Onward, grinning….
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