[OLA-IF-News] Book retailers pull right-wing extremist titles

[Ellie Avis]

Amazon recently pulled all listings for The Turner Diaries, a 1978 book credited with inspiring white supremacist violence, from the Oklahoma City bombing to the recent  attack on the U.S. Capitol.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/12/22227049/amazon-the-turner-diaries-q-anon-purge-removal-capitol-attack

Oregon's own Powell's Books also pulled right-wing agitator Andy Ngo's book,  Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy, from shelves after local protestors requested its removal, claiming Ngo's rhetoric and doxing practices endangers activists.
https://www.oregonlive.com/books/2021/01/powells-responds-to-protests-over-right-wing-agitator-andy-ngos-book-we-carry-a-lot-of-books-we-find-abhorrent.html

Ellie Avis (she/hers)
Technical Services Mgr
Josephine Community Library
200 NW C St, Grants Pass OR
541-476-571

"My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity."

  *   Malcolm X

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