'Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy' - pulled from shelves

Flash said:
Helping a physical bookstore is not the main purpose most people buy books. The point was that the book is available to those who want it.

Do you read the MS press? If not, that is probably the reason you did not read the many stories available about this incident.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-st...ooks-says-andy-ngos-book-will-not-be-in-store
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i havent seen much coverage -i quit the NYTimes an WAPO-so maybe

The bookstore is being censored for no other reason then ANTIFA is using its might.
Buying online isnt a physical bookstore, nor does it add to it sales

I personally always try to support local small business instead of behemoths like Amazon
"Support your locals sheriff" kinda logic
 
dukkha said:
i havent seen much coverage -i quit the NYTimes an WAPO-so maybe

The bookstore is being censored for no other reason then ANTIFA is using its might.
Buying online isnt a physical bookstore, nor does it add to it sales

I personally always try to support local small business instead of behemoths like Amazon
"Support your locals sheriff" kinda logic
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I don't like boycotting businesses because we don't like their political views. The boycott of the NFL, Nike, MLB, Hobby Lobby, Chick-Fil-A, and Goya beans create hate. It destroys the essence of the capitalist free market system.
 
Flash said:
I don't like boycotting businesses because we don't like their political views. The boycott of the NFL, Nike, MLB, Hobby Lobby, Chick-Fil-A, and Goya beans create hate. It destroys the essence of the capitalist free market system.
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I haven't follow this thread, I just saw your post here so let me ask you this. I'm generally a believer people can vote with their pocket book. If you don't like how a company operates then spend your money with their competitor. If you don't like that NFL players kneel for the national anthem you are free not to watch it. If you think the NFL black balled Kapernick you are free not to watch it.

Do you view that as different than actively encouraging others to boycott a company?
 
cawacko said:
I haven't follow this thread, I just saw your post here so let me ask you this. I'm generally a believer people can vote with their pocket book. If you don't like how a company operates then spend your money with their competitor. If you don't like that NFL players kneel for the national anthem you are free not to watch it. If you think the NFL black balled Kapernick you are free not to watch it.

Do you view that as different than actively encouraging others to boycott a company?
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It is when each time we hear a celebrity or business make a political statement we don't like we choose not to watch or buy their products (because those actions are usually accompanied by negative comments). I kid my friends that soon they will not like anything.

I don't want to hear about the political views of celebrities, but I am not going to quit buying their music, watching their TV/movies, etc. Often people who don't want to hear about the political views of celebrities like it if they take their side.

We all patronize businesses or others who probably disagree with our politics but we don't know it because they don't express their views. So, we won't buy from McDonalds but we use Burger King who might have much more offensive views but doesn't make them public.

I just think there are too many things we dislike/hate today and that just seems to increase the division and adds more things to dislike in our lives. It also could economically hurt a small coffee shop that everybody likes and has become friends with the owner but just found out he is a Muslim, Jew, Mormon, Democrat or Republican or some other group we don't like.

I also found it very hypocritical when people thought Kapernick was not a loyal American because he took a knee but supported Roy Moore for the Alabama Senate after he twice refused to follow his oath to the Constitution and was removed from office.
 
Flash said:
It is when each time we hear a celebrity or business make a political statement we don't like we choose not to watch or buy their products (because those actions are usually accompanied by negative comments). I kid my friends that soon they will not like anything.

I don't want to hear about the political views of celebrities, but I am not going to quit buying their music, watching their TV/movies, etc. Often people who don't want to hear about the political views of celebrities like it if they take their side.

We all patronize businesses or others who probably disagree with our politics but we don't know it because they don't express their views. So, we won't buy from McDonalds but we use Burger King who might have much more offensive views but doesn't make them public.

I just think there are too many things we dislike/hate today and that just seems to increase the division and adds more things to dislike in our lives. It also could economically hurt a small coffee shop that everybody likes and has become friends with the owner but just found out he is a Muslim, Jew, Mormon, Democrat or Republican or some other group we don't like.

I also found it very hypocritical when people thought Kapernick was not a loyal American because he took a knee but supported Roy Moore for the Alabama Senate after he twice refused to follow his oath to the Constitution and was removed from office.
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I hear you. You reminded me of a family friend, a gay woman, who posted on Facebook that 'if you eat at Chick Fil A then you don't respect me and to go ahead and defriend me'. I mean, she's free to be friends with whomever she likes but I'm not going to never eat at Chick Fil A because of her request.

I assume most restaurants I go to in San Francisco are owned and run by liberals but that doesn't stop me from going. However I don't really eat Ice Cream, but if I did and I was at a store I wouldn't buy from Ben & Jerry's. I'd buy from any other brand. I wouldn't post online about it or wouldn't go around telling others "I refuse to buy Ben & Jerry's ice cream", I would just buy a different brand.

So I really do get what you are saying and completely agree about the division and hate that is around. I hedge a bit in the sense of my Ben & Jerry's ice cream example because I'm making that decision in private.

Typing this reminded me of the CEO of Uber being on the national economic advisory board under Trump and receiving all kinds of sh*t for it. A bunch of people locally were saying #boycott Uber and ride Lyft instead. Of course it turned out one of the higher ups at Lyft had given a bunch of money to Trump or something like that. (I think you were making reference to something like this above.) So something like that is possible in my ice cream example.
 
cawacko said:
I hear you. You reminded me of a family friend, a gay woman, who posted on Facebook that 'if you eat at Chick Fil A then you don't respect me and to go ahead and defriend me'. I mean, she's free to be friends with whomever she likes but I'm not going to never eat at Chick Fil A because of her request.

I assume most restaurants I go to in San Francisco are owned and run by liberals but that doesn't stop me from going. However I don't really eat Ice Cream, but if I did and I was at a store I wouldn't buy from Ben & Jerry's. I'd buy from any other brand. I wouldn't post online about it or wouldn't go around telling others "I refuse to buy Ben & Jerry's ice cream", I would just buy a different brand.

So I really do get what you are saying and completely agree about the division and hate that is around. I hedge a bit in the sense of my Ben & Jerry's ice cream example because I'm making that decision in private.

Typing this reminded me of the CEO of Uber being on the national economic advisory board under Trump and receiving all kinds of sh*t for it. A bunch of people locally were saying #boycott Uber and ride Lyft instead. Of course it turned out one of the higher ups at Lyft had given a bunch of money to Trump or something like that. (I think you were making reference to something like this above.) So something like that is possible in my ice cream example.
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Ben & Jerry's now makes ice cream for dogs.
 
The Antifa thugs shame America
Andy Ngo's family came to the US to escape Communist tyranny — now he's fleeing a political mob
BY DOUGLAS MURRAY

America’s fearless and impartial media covered this as well as can be expected. In a report on the Portland bookstore protest ABC news wrote that “Author Andy Ngo is known for aggressively covering and video-recording demonstrators.” What is this “aggressive” coverage? How does it differ from ABC’s own brand of journalism? Does ABC favour “mild” reporting or “milquetoast” video-recording of rioters? Apparently so.

The “news organisation” continued: “In 2019, Ngo said he was targeted and suffered brain injuries when he was assaulted while covering protests in Portland.” What is this “said he was”? Either Ngo was assaulted and hospitalised or he wasn’t. It should not be hard for ABC to find this out for themselves. But in this and other ways, the effectiveness of Antifa’s tactics over recent years can be seen. Spread enough ordure around a figure, find people in the mainstream media sympathetic to some of your aims and intentions and you can subtly or not so subtly rewrite and reframe actual events and cast a victim as some type of sinister perpetrator
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