djsbak

1. I can’t read to my kids what I cannot buy (libraries are closed and my younger kid rips books)

2. Publications should automatically enter the public domain when the publisher looses interest in re-printing them.

I’ve thought of this for a long time when i had to fork out $200 for a thermo text long out of print that my professor preferred. Most research groups had a copy they’d pass onto the next batch of grad students, but I joined a new group.

This just reinforces my belief. (Also I despise Disney’s abusive copyright prolonging tactics)

“very racist books“

Really? Very racist? You don’t think you’re exaggerating with the “very”?

If “what I saw on Mulberry street” counts as “very racist” where do you put “Huckleberry Finn” or “To kill a Mockingbird” with their colorful language?

I mean you have two great American classics unapologetically using the n-word vs a cartoon of a Chinese kid dressed as he did a few decades before the book was written.

N-word vs. kid dressed as he dressed.

Don’t you think “mildly discomforting depiction of a foreigner?” is more proportional?

He is.

“Okay” is now considered racist.

It’s super pernicious too, but effective bludgeon. Making “Okay” racist is obscure enough that most normal people (ie those not obsessed with wokeness) have never heard of it.

Consider that you’ve never heard until now that “okay” is racist and you did the okay symbol in front of a political commissar (I mean a woke person, can’t keep up) that doesn’t like you. You’re done.