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If this bothers you, do as Amazon and eBay have done, then exercise your personal right of association to do business with someone else. Unless you are interested in setting up a "Ministry of Compelled Trade" to circumvent a "Ministry of Social Behavior", like every other participant in our market, Vote with Your Dollars.

Complaining about "Cancel Culture" isn't going to do a damn thing to convince Amazon and eBay to relist these items, but you spending your money elsewhere will.

For what it's worth, you can find "banned" Seuss books over at ABE Books:

https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?isbn=9780394844947&n=100121503&cm_sp=mbc-_-ISBN-_-used

And if you don't want to support ABE Books (being an Amazon company and all), get to your local bookstore to see if you can send some dollars their way. I'm sure they would appreciate it.

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I went to my first book burning when I was 13 years old at the church my whole extended family attended. Teens were encouraged to destroy any "worldly" books, movies, music or anything else that "god" might be offended by and I find it odd how all these same people are now shouting to the heavens about how bad it is when others deem their propaganda as offensive.

I'm sure its a scary thing when the world starts to consider what you believe to be toxic. But let's not pretend that "When Harry became Sally" is anything but pure propaganda. Their "research" was contributed to just two "scholars". They gave no time in the publication to opposing or contesting research. That is not how science works.

Also how do you contend with your beliefs that people don't have to bake cakes but yet they do have to sell books? Because those seem really at odds to me.

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