American Renaissance, February 27, 2019
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February 27, 2019
February 27, 2019
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Henry Wolff
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Amazon has long prided itself on a broad policy of not censoring books—until now.
In the last several days, it has banned print and Kindle editions of four books either written or edited by race relations expert Jared Taylor. On February 24, Amazon banned his book,White Identity, a scholarly analysis that argues whites are beginning to practice identity politics in response to forceful racial demands by blacks, Hispanics, and Asians.
White Identity had 134 customer reviews and an average rating of 4.6 stars. Amazon had sold the book since 2011.
Yesterday, Amazon banned Jared Taylor’s collection of essays, If We Do Nothing, and two collections he edited: A Race Against Time and Face to Face with Race.
In all cases, Amazon claimed that the books’ “subject matter” was “in violation of our content guidelines,” but did not explain why. There is no appeals process.
On the same day it banned White Identity, Amazon also banned The White Nationalist Manifesto by Greg Johnson.
As recently as 2010, Amazon had an unambiguous free-speech policy: “Amazon believes it is censorship not to sell certain books simply because we or others believe their message is objectionable.” Now, Amazon is deciding which political views are acceptable and which are not.
It continues to sell the bomb-making manual known as The Anarchist’s Cookbook, the Unabomber’s Manifesto, and justifications of terrorism by Al-Qaida, Osama Bin Laden, and Hezbollah. It also sells black nationalist manifestos by Elijah Muhammad, Marcus Garvey, and Louis Farrakhan. ...
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