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As someone not from the US, this fingerpointing and the " i don't care 'their' books are being banned as long as 'my' books are being banned" is so weird to me.

You guys should care books from either side of your political spectrum are being banned!

Not everyone has the money to buy whatever book they want to read and it's wrong no matter who does it.

This is an example of "DARVO" [0] – Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender. Readers will notice that the post itself literally follows each of the instructions in order.

IMHO it doesn't make for particularly interesting or pleasant discussion. But you're free to not care about what you don't care about, and free to provide (or not) any explanation or pretext for it.

0 – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARVO

It's also incredibly sad because it's falling into the all-too-common pattern of ascribing the actions of corporate authoritarians to "the left", thereby framing "the right" as some kind of alternative when it's really that same corporate authoritarianism but without even the pretense.