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Victoria’s Robinsons Bookshop apologises after owner’s call for more ‘white kids’ on book covers (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 9 months ago by rainynight65@feddit.de to c/australia@aussie.zone
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Victoria’s oldest independent bookshop has apologised after its owner called for more picture books with “just white kids on the cover” and claimed that the chain would stop stocking “woke agenda” content that divided people.

Susanne Horman, the owner of Robinsons Bookshop chain, posted a series of tweets in December where she called for an “substantial shift” in Australian publishing, arguing the focus should be in line with public opinion, requests for books and “for what is good”.

“What’s missing from our bookshelves in store?” Horman wrote in one tweet, before the account was deleted. “Positive male lead characters of any age, any traditional nuclear white family stories, kids picture books with just white kids on the cover, and no wheelchair, rainbow or indigenous art, non indig [sic] aus history.”

Another post read: “Books we don’t need: hate against white Australians, socialist agenda, equity over equality, diversity and inclusion (READ AS anti-white exclusion), left wing govt propaganda. Basically the woke agenda that divides people. Not stocking any of these in 2024.”

In a Facebook post on Sunday night, Robinsons Bookshop said the comments had been “taken out of context” and “misrepresented the views” of the company.

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[–] rainynight65@feddit.de 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

A zero-sum game is a situation where one person's gains must be balanced out by another person's losses. This is usually the case in financial markets - since there is no endless money supply, if someone profits from a market movement, someone else makes a loss. There is no change in the overall amount of wealth in play, hence zero-sum - add up the profits and losses and you get zero.

Reactionaries treat things like diversity, equality, anti-racism and such as zero-sum games in the sense that if someone gets more rights, it must come at the cost of someone else. Which is complete and utter rubbish, but it's very useful to stir up resentments against these efforts. The narrative is that equality for women, people of colour, trans people etc means fewer rights for, respectively, men, white people, cis people.

[–] eatham@aussie.zone 1 points 9 months ago

Thanks mate.