Self-Defeating Message
Human Events Online has a list of the "Ten Most Harmful Books" ever published. While I agree that the books on the list espouse some rather silly and/or hateful rhetoric, one has to wonder why Human Events Online would link to the Amazon purchase page of each and every book on their list?
Heck, their link even contains an Amazon Associate ID to ensure that the Human Events Online website gets a cut of the proceeds.
If these books are so "hurtful," why encourage people to buy them? Personally, talk of discouraging people from reading certain books gives me the chills (I don't want anybody deciding which books are and are not appropriate for the general public to read, even if they are suggestions), but whatever Human Events is trying to accomplish they're certainly sending a mixed message.
I guess you just can't keep good capitalists down.
Heck, their link even contains an Amazon Associate ID to ensure that the Human Events Online website gets a cut of the proceeds.
If these books are so "hurtful," why encourage people to buy them? Personally, talk of discouraging people from reading certain books gives me the chills (I don't want anybody deciding which books are and are not appropriate for the general public to read, even if they are suggestions), but whatever Human Events is trying to accomplish they're certainly sending a mixed message.
I guess you just can't keep good capitalists down.
