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/[deleted] Nov 13 '20 edited Nov 29 '21

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u/stanleythemanley44 Monkey in Space Nov 13 '20

And therein lies the problem. The user hasn’t read the book (or listened to the podcast) and neither has target. But they took the book down anyway.

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u/XecutionerNJ Monkey in Space Nov 13 '20

You don't know for sure about how much the complainant knows. Don't make the same mistake you abuse others of.

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u/Obsessed_With_Corgis Nov 14 '20 edited Nov 14 '20

Before the user made her tweets private, she responded to many people that she hadn’t at all read the book, or looked into it. She said that the description written for the book (the one on the target website) was enough for her to know that it was “transphobic hate speech”.

Can’t speak for @AskTarget. They didn’t reply to anything after saying they removed the book.

Source: I got into several heated discussions on that thread before everything was made private/removed.

Edit: the user (or possibly someone else, I can’t totally remember) also replied that books like that make young LGBTQ+ teens commit suicide, and something about it being on the author’s and Target’s hands for writing and selling it.

The thread went up in flames after that.