No More Green Eggs And Ham For YOU

[brycejones]

Along with other circumstances, because Joe Biden was the first to not mention Dr Seuss in his speech for the Read Across America event, people have used that as another thread to believe that there was a collaborative effort to start censoring Dr Seuss. That these 6 books are the first of more to come later.

That certainly doesn’t qualify as evidence.

 

[shortylickens]

That certainly doesn’t qualify as evidence.

The way things are right now, approximately one half of the country operates on evidence, and the other half operates on belief.
And in case no one noticed, blind belief is a LOT stronger. It leaves no room for doubt or questioning. Those people are probably gonna start a war and probably gonna win.

 

[HumblePie]

That certainly doesn’t qualify as evidence.

Never said it was hard evidence. I said it was a circumstance used to draw a conclusion by anything thinking there is a coordinated effort to censor Dr Seuss here. It is circumstantial evidence though. Which is usually what is used by most people to form their opinions on a wide variety of topics.

 

[HumblePie]

The real problem here is that those three occurrences would not lead anyone to the conclusion that there was censorship.

First of all, 99% of the US population would not even know about any of those three occurrences had they been reported and forgotten by the next news cycle. Nobody outside of that specific school district gives a single solitary fuck about what that school district is doing. Nobody gives a single solitary fuck about what books a President does or does not recommend. Very few people give a shit about what the owners of Dr. Seuss' works decided to publish or not publish anymore. BUT, you carefully package all three of those things up, and add a healthy dose of "people are saying" and now you have a product you can sell to millions of Americans desperate for any flimsy excuse to hate Democrats.

You say that, but the ebay also banned the reselling of Dr Seuss books. Go try and buy one of those books off Amazon or other places. You can't unless you want to pay a ridiculously inflated price. More people than you think believe there was a concerted effort, for whatever reason, to censor these books at this time.

 

[Trell]

You say that, but the ebay also banned the reselling of Dr Seuss books. Go try and buy one of those books off Amazon or other places. You can't unless you want to pay a ridiculously inflated price. More people than you think believe there was a concerted effort, for whatever reason, to censor these books at this time.

It looks like people are selling "If I ran the zoo" still on ebay...

If i ran the zoo for sale | eBay

Get the best deals for If i ran the zoo at eBay.com. We have a great online selection at the lowest prices with Fast & Free shipping on many items!

www.ebay.com

 

[ch33zw1z]

Times are changing, the horror!

 

[brycejones]

You say that, but the ebay also banned the reselling of Dr Seuss books. Go try and buy one of those books off Amazon or other places. You can't unless you want to pay a ridiculously inflated price. More people than you think believe there was a concerted effort, for whatever reason, to censor these books at this time.

Please provide a link to ebay stating sales are banned.

As to the part I bolded:

That is capitalism, not censorship.

As for the last sentence - I believe many people think that because a bunch of talking heads told them a pack of lies and they bought it. There are millions who claim to think Trump won the election. The number of people who believe something doesn't make it accurate or true.

 

[dank69]

It looks like people are selling "If I ran the zoo" still on ebay...

If i ran the zoo for sale | eBay

Get the best deals for If i ran the zoo at eBay.com. We have a great online selection at the lowest prices with Fast & Free shipping on many items!

www.ebay.com

As I don't let conservative media shit directly into my skull the way HP does, it was the first I heard about eBay. After Googling, eBay has issued a statement that they are in the process of delisting them all. I cannot find an explanation of why though.

 

[brycejones]

As I don't let conservative media shit directly into my skull the way HP does, it was the first I heard about eBay. After Googling, eBay has issued a statement that they are in the process of delisting them all. I cannot find an explanation of why though.

Thank you. I see that now.

Some quotes from a wsj article:

“EBay is currently sweeping our marketplace to remove these items,” a spokeswoman for the company said in an email. New copies of the six books were no longer for sale online at major retailers such as Barnes & Noble on Thursday afternoon, which put eBay among the most prominent platforms for the books to be sold.


Message received by a seller:
“Dr. Seuss Enterprises has stopped publication of this book due to its negative portrayal of some ethnicities,” said the email message from eBay, which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. “As a courtesy, we have ended your item and refunded your selling fees, and as long as you do not relist the item, there will be no negative impact to your account.”

WSJ News Exclusive | Dr. Seuss Books Deemed Offensive Will Be Delisted From eBay

EBay is working to prevent the resale of six Dr. Seuss books pulled this week by the company in charge of the late author’s works because they contain offensive imagery.

www.wsj.com

 

[ch33zw1z]

As I don't let conservative media shit directly into my skull the way HP does, it was the first I heard about eBay. After Googling, eBay has issued a statement that they are in the process of delisting them all. I cannot find an explanation of why though.

I would imagine to try and stop the price gouging that will happen.

 

[brycejones]

I would imagine to try and stop the price gouging that will happen.

If ebay cared about price gouging you wouldn't be able to buy a 3080 there.

 

[ch33zw1z]

If ebay cared about price gouging you wouldn't be able to buy a 3080 there.

Wonder what would happen if nvidia stopped making them lol

 

[brycejones]

Wonder what would happen if nvidia stopped making them lol

Obviously that would only happen if nvidia caved into the liberal cancel culture.

 

[sactoking]

It's an interesting social phenomenon that an essentially dead thread on a topic of minor (at best) controversy can jump to several additional pages per hour with just a little bit of trolling.

 

[shortylickens]

It's an interesting social phenomenon that an essentially dead thread on a topic of minor (at best) controversy can jump to several additional pages per hour with just a little bit of trolling.

The conservative movement over the last few decades has been working hard on making an issue of things by lying about them, overblowing their importance, and making up an opposition and lying about what that opposition says.
Trolling is a key tenant of that strategy. It works. Not a surprise the common folk use it daily as well.

 

[HumblePie]

Thank you. I see that now.

Some quotes from a wsj article:

“EBay is currently sweeping our marketplace to remove these items,” a spokeswoman for the company said in an email. New copies of the six books were no longer for sale online at major retailers such as Barnes & Noble on Thursday afternoon, which put eBay among the most prominent platforms for the books to be sold.


Message received by a seller:
“Dr. Seuss Enterprises has stopped publication of this book due to its negative portrayal of some ethnicities,” said the email message from eBay, which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. “As a courtesy, we have ended your item and refunded your selling fees, and as long as you do not relist the item, there will be no negative impact to your account.”

WSJ News Exclusive | Dr. Seuss Books Deemed Offensive Will Be Delisted From eBay

EBay is working to prevent the resale of six Dr. Seuss books pulled this week by the company in charge of the late author’s works because they contain offensive imagery.

www.wsj.com

Wow I am glad you can actually look stuff on the web for once! Multiple people were reporting getting their listings of the books removed from ebay and the reason given being as inappropriate content. As I said, such things just added more fuel to the idea of this being overt censorship to people that want to believe that.

 

[HumblePie]

The conservative movement over the last few decades has been working hard on making an issue of things by lying about them, overblowing their importance, and making up an opposition and lying about what that opposition says.
Trolling is a key tenant of that strategy. It works. Not a surprise the common folk use it daily as well.

I wouldn't call dank69 a conservative as he was the one trolling with his snarky posts replying to mine starting with 101 questioning my timeline statements and then 103 calling me a Neanderthal because he was too lazy to look someone up for himself.

 

[brycejones]

Wow I am glad you can actually look stuff on the web for once! Multiple people were reporting getting their listings of the books removed from ebay and the reason given being as inappropriate content. As I said, such things just added more fuel to the idea of this being overt censorship to people that want to believe that.

I guess your law degree didn’t cover supporting your assertions with evidence at the time you make them. Or you’re just lazy I guess.

 

[HumblePie]

I guess your law degree didn’t cover supporting your assertions with evidence at the time you make them. Or you’re just lazy I guess.

Oh forgive me. I didn't realize this forum was a court room.

 

[brycejones]

Oh forgive me. I didn't realize this forum was a court room.

So you are just lazy. Got it.

 

[HumblePie]

So you are just lazy. Got it.

So you are just lazy. Got it.

 

[brycejones]

So you are just lazy. Got it.

I am not the one that routinely links videos to make arguements for me nor provide evidence to support assertions. But since you appear to be unwilling to change I will put you where you belong.

 

[allisolm]

1) Louden School District removes 6 Dr. Seuss books from their recommended reading list for the Read Across America event

The fact that those were the same books removed from the Louden School District recommendation list though is sus to that claim.

So if the Louden School district didn't remove from their recommendation list the exact same 6 books that the publisher said they were no longer going to be publishing...

Unfortunately, I can find nothing to substantiate the idea that the Louden County school board removed any books from any list, and I have looked. You have repeated it several times so you must have a source, and I would appreciate it if you would post it.

 

[HomerJS]

Imagine that >500,000 died from COVID and the primary concerns of conservatrives are

a plastic potato
some childrens books taken out of production

 

[ecogen]

You say that, but the ebay also banned the reselling of Dr Seuss books. Go try and buy one of those books off Amazon or other places. You can't unless you want to pay a ridiculously inflated price. More people than you think believe there was a concerted effort, for whatever reason, to censor these books at this time.

Half of the GOP thinks the election was stolen, why should anyone with more than 2 braincells give a single fuck about what these mouthbreathers think?