Just Got Back From Barnes & Noble Where I HID All The NeoCon Books!

[GalleryGod]

Merry Christmas to YOU!:kick: Friggin' 5th Columnists!

[LiberalVoice]

1. Badass!!

[SiobhanClancy]

2. I've done that before...

but then I felt bad for the people who work in the store...I don't really like to make more work for them. I'm probably being silly,but......:shrug:

26. I worked at Barnes and Noble for years

and that sort of thing would bug us, BUT it wasn't nearly as bad as people who would get a stack of 20 magazines and then not put them back etc.
I'd say if it's for a good cause DO IT!

[SmileyBoy]

3. I flip around all the neo-con material at my student bookstore.

Sometimes, I slip them all (Coulter, Hannity, O'Reilly) behind the books by Michael Moore, Greg Palast, Al Franken, James Carville, etc.

[BigDaddyLove]

4. Yep, nothing like being in America, where you have the........

freedom to read whatever you want.

Grow up.

[blackcat77]

14. I'm with you, BDL...

To be liberal is to be unafraid of other views. We can face them head on and don't need to resort to their tactics to win.

[Deja Q]

24. Well, I'm a liberal...

And I'm sick of the current neocon views being thrusted down everybody's throats with everybody else in the background.

Childish, maybe, but I applaud such actions and I do the same thing myself.

I'm not afraid of their views. I'm disgusted by them.

[HuckleB]

32. Hiding books doesn't help.

It only gives them another thing to point their fingers at, so they don't have to engage in real argument. Don't give them material.

[liberalhistorian]

51. I agree.

People have the right to read what they want to read, isn't that what we've been saying all along? Look at the reaction many of us had on here when we heard all the stories, some from DUers' personal experiences, about Hillary's book being hidden, or those buying it being harassed by the repukes. We were rightfully angry and infuriated that people thought they had the right to tell us what to read.

Well, it's the same thing turned around the other way. If someone wants to read a filthy ranting repuke piece of trash for a book, that's their choice. You don't have a right to determine that for them any more than they have to determine it for us.

[NightTrain]

55. "Grow up," hell!

As the Dead Kennedys so poignantly stated:

I'd rather stay a child
And keep my self-respect
If being an adult
Means being like you!

[HuckleB]

56. If acts like this have anything to do with keeping your self-respect,...

I'd say you've got some twisted sense of self respect. And I suspect the members of DK would too.

[Cheswick2.0]

63. yes and we also have the freedom to make a statement

about what is garbage. Freedom extends in all directions.

[VT70]

5. That's lame

I must say. If freepers had done that to our books, we'd all be screaming bloody murder. We don't have freedom of speech in America for nothing, you know. That's a private establishment and a bad thing that you did.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

7. Coulter's at least belong in the fiction section. Seriously

Come on, this stuff is destroying civilization as we know it.

[piece sine]

57. attempted censorship

is far more corrosive to democracy then the free and unfettered exchange of ideas. Put the showe on the other footer..."Freepers hide all left-wing books" would generates threads of disgust at DU as we accuse them on Nazism, etc.

Lay-off the vigilante censorship, folks. It makes leftists look bad. I am mortified at soem of the things people do in my name.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

58. Fair point, but I still consider her books to be fictional.

[LynneSin]

9. you do realize half the time it's to clean up freeper messes

Believe me - they do it too!!!

[VT70]

16. I know they do,

and if it was my bookstore I wouldn't care, lol, but I would not do this to someone else's property.

[HuckleB]

29. So bad Freeper behavior should be emulated?

I don't think so.

[kanrok]

21. Free speech is not implicated in this

A private individual turning over books in a private book store has absolutely nothing to do with the Constitutional concept of "free speech." A "bad thing?" Please. Give it a rest.

[HuckleB]

33. It's not a "good thing," that's for sure.

It's certainly not going to do anything but close minds. That's counterproductive.

[Cheswick2.0]

64. It's not counter productive, it's a statement

stop with the hand ringing, people will fight back in their own way.

[liberalhistorian]

52. Turn it around the other way, and

remember how we all feel when the freeps do the same thing to our books and magazines. We had a right to be furious, and it's the same thing here. Hiding books is hiding books, no matter what they are.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

6. Our new library opened yesterday. Went in, saw Coulter's book,

took it straight to the fiction section. Where it belongs.

[Killarney]

47. LOL!

Now, THAT's a good idea.

The difference between "our" books and theirs are the ours are right and theirs are wrong. ;)

[LynneSin]

8. That's my favorite hobby at bookstores

Other than my local bookstore. The owners asked me not to do that there and I obliged.

[tekriter]

10. If you REALLY wanna piss 'em off...

hide the crayons.

:evilgrin:

[Richardo]

11. Pu-leeze tell me it wasn't the one in NW Houston...

...I've got to go reshelve there tonight.

Let's see:

1) Take all sex books out of the religion section
2) Take all religion books out of the sex section
3) Take all gay/lesbian books out of religion section
4) Take all religion books out of the gay/lesbian section
5) Reshelve a couple of hundred "manga" books
6) Reshelve about a thousand magazines
7) Turn around/resort all political books

etc
etc

Have fun, I guess, but :eyes:

[peacefreak]

35. Don't forget

to take all the porn out of the Kid's section. (a fave in my store)

[Richardo]

36. Right. And the 700+ home decorating books out of the cafe...

...and reassemble the wedding planner section. :evilfrown:

[liberalhistorian]

54. ROFLMAO!

Yes, indeed, I've witnessed that myself at a couple of my own local bookstores.

[RebelOne]

12. Good for you, but I wouldn't have the nerve.

[Faygo Kid]

13. Maybe shoulda burned them.

Ever hear of that idea? Think we're gonna win the war of ideas with such pranks? We need more books in the marketplace, not less. I would never buy any of the Coulter/O'Reilly books, but my distress is with the lack of courage on our side in standing up to them, not their books' existence.

[VermontDem2004]

15. Why?

I would hate wasting my time taking a long ass bus ride to the library to pick up a book I wanted to read just to find it missing.

[LynneSin]

17. Yes, but I doubt you're making that longass trip....

Just to check out Ann Coulter or some other fundie screeches lies

:D

[VermontDem2004]

19. That wasn't my point

My point was I wouldn't want to take a trip to the library to discover that the book I wanted to check out was hidden. Whether I am a republican a democrat shouldn't matter, if people want to check out Ann Coulter they should be allowed too and people shouldn't hide a book just because they prefer not to read it or they don't want other people reading it.

[LynneSin]

34. Don't you feel we owe it to the public

to make sure these books are classified in the proper category. 99% of the crap that Ann Coulter writes are pure misinformation and fallacies - to me that is fiction!!!

[HuckleB]

28. Yup!

This sort of thing is just child's play. It serves no good purpose.

Cheers!

[slackmaster]

18. Isn't that just a LITTLE bit immature of you?

All you really accomplished was to inconvenience the store's employees.

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[VermontDem2004]

25. What does age have to do with anything?

I just turned 17 and I wouldn't spend my time at the library hiding books so others who waste a trip over there can't find them, also make the job harder for those who store books on shelfs.

[Westegg]

31. okay teen. you make a good point

And I wasn't trying to smear ALL teens with my comment. I guess that now that I'm over 30, I see such immature behavior as "teen-like." But you're right. There are plenty of smart and mature teens who would never do such a thing. And I guess you're one of them.

I probably wasn't, when I was your age. So you're one step ahead of me. Okay?

Peace.

[VermontDem2004]

37. Oh I know

It is childish behavior no argument here, my point was that age is just number and you can find immaturity at all levels. :hi: Sorry if it seemed like I overreacted because I think I did.

[Rainbowreflect]

22. I just place Al's, Michael's or Pitt's books in front of any of

Ann's, Bill's, or Sean's that are facing forward.
My little bit to beautify the place.

[mistertrickster]

23. Hehe . . . I do that too, but only if they are displayed "in your face"

to encourage attention.

[HuckleB]

27. Great, another new game that will go back and forth.

I'm bound to lose time looking for a book I want because some dumb Freeper took revenge on this type of action. Way to go. Woo hoo! This really helps the cause.

You could have been reading or working on a campaign or exercising, just about almost anything.

Heck, drink a beer! Now that's a constructive use of time.

[RossMcLochNess]

30. It does nothing but...

piss off the employees. If someone wants to buy O'Reilly's book and can't find it, he'll ask you. Then I'd take him to the section. If its not there, we'll look it up on the computer and see that yes, the store does have it in stock. Then we waste time looking around for where you hid it. The person still buys the book once we find it. All you've done is make an employee mad, that customer mad, and other customers who actually need help finding books mad. Bad idea. Its pretty childish and serves NO purpose. I doubt it has ever prevented a sale. At worse, you're sending the business to another bookstore. The person will still buy it. All you've done is screw the store not the author. Take it from someone who used to work at a bookstore.

[Liberal Christian]

38. I confess!

I haven't hid the neo-con books, but my sister and I did (temporarily) hide the two new Tamora Pierce books, moving them from Young Adult to travel behind some atlases, just until my nephew was ready to leave the store. We didn't want him to know the new one was out yet. We did put them back before leaving.

I have been known to just turn some faced-out books so they are spine-out, and put the books I would like people to notice so they are face-out, but I don't move them to other sections.

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[scottcsmith]

40. Sounds pretty childish to me

Why hide the books? If I go to the bookstore I'd like to be able to find the books in the section they are supposed to be in. Hiding "neocon" books throughout the store is not very mature. Are you a grown adult? Not to mention the fact some under-paid B&N clerk will have to spend extra time collecting the books and putting them back where they belong.

That's just the sort of stupid action that does more damage to our reputations as Democrats/liberals/progressives than helps, and gives fuel to the right-wingers in attacking us.

[AlFrankenFan]

41. I love doing that!

Very, very fun. :D

[HuckleB]

44. Please don't. There are far more constructive ways to "have fun."

[Cleita]

42. There is a way to do this.

Spine all the conservative books on the bottom or top shelves of the section. Then put the liberal books facing forward on the eye level shelves. I actually used to do this when I worked in a bookstore. It was according to the rules and yet I made a display that was er a little left sided. Of course the conservative guy on the day shift used to undo and reverse the display.

[kodi]

43. friends like you we dont need

other than it is a childish act, it is compounded by broadcasting it as if you have struck a blow for decency.

what a fucking creepy thing to be proud of.

[tigereye]

46. perhaps better to make sure that the other side is represented,

instead of hiding them. I have complained at stores if it seems like there are only "right-wing" books up front( or in the kid's section,even worse), such as Bill Bennett and Dr. Laura (king and queen of hypocrisy). It takes all kinds of thought, though, to make a world. Any form of censorship can be a dangerous place to go. Sometimes you have to read that crap to know what the thought process is and then reject it. ;)

[geniph]

45. The most I'll ever do

is turn them around so I don't have to look at their ugly mugs while I'm trying to look for actual books. I wouldn't ever move them, and certainly wouldn't hide them; it's a tremendous inconvenience to the folks working in the store.

I *have* been known to write to a store's management to complain about them having all the wingnut Regnery screeds out front and center and hiding the more well-reasoned political books back on the shelves...then they tell me that THEY didn't do that, the store's patrons did! So I won't do it myself. But I will confess to having turned them around so I didn't barf on the floor looking at George and Laura: A Love Story, or whatever that pile of steaming goat feces was. I figured a puddle of puke in the stacks would inconvenience the employees too.

[scottcsmith]

48. Why do anything?

Unless you own the store, it's not up to you to rearrange books just because you don't like the covers. What gives you that right?

If the right-wingers are the books that are selling, it stands to reason they'd be featured at the front of the store. Also, chains make arrangements with publishers to feature certain titles in strategic locations. It's not your property, why not just leave the books alone?

[geniph]

65. I don't rearrange them or move them

I don't think you read my post.

[roguevalley]

49. You are my hero!!! --RV, who also does it at Borders.

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[GalleryGod]

60. Thanks,,RV. READ Carville's New Book and See Who's Attitude Matches His?

Pretentious,Whine & cheesey Lacey Libs!

[WWW]

53. At walmart

I put the Dixie Chicks cds and Al Franken's book in front of the republican stuff. And hide Bill O'Reilley and Tody Keith products.

[YNGW]

59. How insecure in your own beliefs do you have to be to hide books?

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm???????????????????????

[GalleryGod]

61. Somebody needs to give you back your crayons

I dare say-you're the one with the My Question mark is bigger than yours Prob-lem.

Be gone,child,who's never had to defend liberty in a foreign land.:puffpiece:

[YNGW]

62. Someone who hides books calling someone else a child....

That's a laugh.

Grow up.