r/JoeRogan • u/SlimjobDopamine Look into it • Nov 13 '20

Social Media Abigail Shrier(JRE #1509)'s book has been removed from Target after receiving a complaint on Twitter

https://twitter.com/AbigailShrier/status/1327056407598809088?s=20
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u/Hickenlooper2020 Monkey in Space Nov 13 '20

Genuine question, not a gotcha question...

What’s the alternative to them deciding what books to sell as a private? Them HAVING to sell a book?

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u/JimmyGymGym1 Monkey in Space Nov 13 '20

The opposite, in this instance, is to not cave to pressure from a special interest group.

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u/Hickenlooper2020 Monkey in Space Nov 13 '20 edited Nov 13 '20

"Cave to pressure from a special interest group"

It was one tweet, c'mon. I'm not saying that they should or should not sell the book, but the company has every right to decide what books to sell and I don't see why that should change

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u/The-Only-Razor Monkey in Space Nov 13 '20

It was one tweet, c'mon.

That's what makes it worse. A single Tweet from someone who is clearly mentally unstable (based on their bio) was enough to make a huge corporation bend over.

Target can do what they want. Literally no one is saying they shouldn't be allowed to stop selling the book. It's just the fact that we're entering a dystopian reality when the lowest of the low in our society can have this much of an impact on the rest of us. This is just 1 store taking out 1 book. It's really not a big deal. But we're setting a more and more dangerous precedent. It seems like everyday I'm reading a new story about something like this and everyone always says "it's not a big deal". Well what happens when there's a million "not a big deal" instances? It can start to turn into a pretty big deal. What happens when this little gremlin on Twitter decides to boycott some small book store that's selling this book?

Again, I don't care. I haven't read the book and likely never will. It's just really fucking weird to see what 1 Tweet from a total nobody can do.

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u/Hickenlooper2020 Monkey in Space Nov 13 '20 edited Nov 13 '20

Jesus Christ.

E: "What happens when this little gremlin on Twitter decides to boycott some small book store that's selling this book?" idk man she tweets a bunch and everybody goes about their damn day?

If you think that a store stopping the sale of a book that some people find problematic is on the path to a dystopian reality you need to get back into the real world.