Peterson said in a statement provided to NBC. “We stand by our decision as a privately owned bookstore to determine what titles and merchandise are suitable for our shelves or easily accessible by young children."
Mr Peterson, you absolutely have that right to do what you want with your own store. However, that won’t insulate you from the consequences of your actions when your employees quit rather than capitulate to your bigotry and your customers evaporate for the same reason. Even from a business point of view, you might want to look at sales numbers for the Republican views you’re courting. Far fewer buy books than your previous, more open minded, clientele.
Yeah, and as a bookstore, I imagine pandering to the right doesn’t really help your sales all that much in the long run.
“We couldn’t allow gay patrons inside of the bookstore anymore. Think of the children.”
A relatively minor incident in the bigger scale of things, but it really does give the impression that the US is well on its way to becoming a proto-fascist state.
on its way
It’s already there.
Have you seen who’s leading the country? It’s no longer “proto-fascist” either, it’s full on fascist. With the trafficking of humans into El Salvador prisons without due process, that country is there. The US is a fascist hellscape shithole country.
My frame of reference is russia. With all due to respect, US has ways to go before they get to that level.
Do people have to start wearing shiny Hugo Boss outfits before we stop calling it proto-fascist? Seems pretty fascistic to me
Cause it is
For me personally, the presence of elections (flawed but arguably functional) and some level of judicial oversight (e.g. US judiciary is no where close to say russia, where they rule as per request from the regime) makes US a proto-fascist state, not fully fascist state.
Republicans have ruled for half of the current century, but only legitimately won the election after 9/11. I don’t think it’s fair to describe US elections as functional, even arguably.
This is what fascist states look like at this stage of their life cycle. I think the most generous description of the US is an early fascist state. If we really want to argue about whether a spade is a shovel.
Yeah, “early fascist” and “proto-fascist” mean the same thing.
Ah yes, the Florida panhandle. The low key redneckiest part of the US. You’d think it’d be somewhere in Arkansas or Alabama, but you’d be wrong Those rednecks congregate in the redneck riviera for some sun in the sun, making the panhandle the absolute worst.
PS: The sad part is, that area is also has the best beaches in the continental United States, but a lot of the people that go there truly suck.
it only responded to complaints about age-inappropriate content visible to children.
so they removed titles…
Florida is the worse state
Oklahoma enters the chat…at least you have scenery
Mississippi is the worst, though.
It’s at the absolutte bottom of almost every positive statistic, at the very top of almost every negative statistic (including poorest state) and don’t even get me STARTED on the white supremacist kakistocracy they have ruling the state!
In fact, it’s so dire that the unofficial motto of awful neighboring state Alabama is “thank god for Mississippi” (making us not the worst)
Have they looked around lately? They need to quit the whole fucking state.
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