One of those gambling sites should have started taking bets on how long it would take RuPaul’s widely advertised “no censorship” bookstore to start taking books off the shelves.
It turns out that the answer was three days. Three days to go from “censorship of any book, perspective, or story is incompatible with the survival of democracy” and “banning books is never the answer” to “we don’t want to hurt the feelings of LGBTQIA12345678 people.
In response to so-called book bans, drag performer RuPaul started an online book store committed to selling all books.
Now, several right-wing titles have been removed. | @abigailandwords https://t.co/Ze0MQsBQFo
— National Review (@NRO) March 7, 2024
I have to admit that while I haven’t much of an opinion about RuPaul one way or another–he seemed benign enough given what little I know–I did like the idea of an “all-ideas” bookstore….