Target is banning books. Time for the Bud Light treatment.

[marvin martian]

Don't shop at book-banning Target, and tell your friends to do the same.

 

[Stormy Daniels]

Perhaps you'd like to use a publicly available link. Not everyone has a Twitter account.

 

[okfine]

Don't shop at book-banning Target, and tell your friends to do the same.

TFB

 

[braalian]

A store deciding not to sell a particular book is not “book banning”

 

[marvin martian]

TFB

^^^Look, the book banners are happy!

 

[marvin martian]

A store deciding not to sell a particular book is not “book banning”

Really? Explain. What is a book ban?

 

[braalian]

Really? Explain. What is a book ban?

Book banning is done by governments, schools, libraries.

Target simply not to stock a particular book.

There’s literally millions of books that target does not sell. Are they all “banned” as well?

 

[Vastator]

Never really been a Target shopper to begin with...

 

[Zincwarrior]

Really? Explain. What is a book ban?

A government entity prohibiting the purchase, sale or ownership of an item or service.

 

[marvin martian]

Never really been a Target shopper to begin with...

Good. I'm not anymore, either.

 

[braalian]

Plus, target is a business.

If a large part of their customer base would be offended by a particular product, why would they stock it? It obviously wouldn’t sell and obviously wouldn’t be profitable.

It’s a business decision

 

[marvin martian]

A government entity prohibiting the purchase, sale or ownership of an item or service.

I think you may be on to something!

So a library moving a book from the grade school section to the high school section isn't a ban?

 

[marvin martian]

Plus, target is a business.

If a large part of their customer base would be offended by a particular product, why would they stock it? It obviously wouldn’t sell and obviously wouldn’t be profitable.

It’s a business decision

So essentially you're saying a business has the right to serve or not serve a particular segment of the population?

 

[1srelluc]

I don't think the MILF Central ladies will care.

 

[braalian]

So essentially you're saying a business has the right to serve or not serve a particular segment of the population?

No, I didn’t say that at all.

They have a right to sell or not sell what they want. That’s not the same as denying service to gays, black, trans or wherever you were going with that train of thought.

 

[Zincwarrior]

I think you may be on to something!

So a library moving a book from the grade school section to the high school section isn't a ban?

Not under that definition. Just my humble opinion.

 

[marvin martian]

No, I didn’t say that at all.

They have a right to sell or not sell what they want. That’s not the same as denying service to gays, black, trans or wherever you were going with that train of thought.

That's not what I was saying. Do you believe a business has the right to serve or not serve a particular segment of the population by refusing (or agreeing) to sell a product that segment wants (or doesn't want)?

 

[braalian]

That's not what I was saying. Do you believe a business has the right to serve or not serve a particular segment of the population by refusing (or agreeing) to sell a product that segment wants (or doesn't want)?

You’re making it political. It’s not.

Every store on the face of the planet caters more to some groups than to others to varying degrees. Stores can’t be everything to everyone.

 

[marvin martian]

You’re making it political. It’s not.

Every store on the face of the planet caters more to some groups than to others to varying degrees. Stores can’t be everything to everyone.

So you don't have a problem with that? A business can refuse to make or sell any product they want, right?

 

[okfine]

If Target wants to say screw you for what you did to them and other businesses, well I guess you have to just suck it up.