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EricCWelch
EricCWelch
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Last activity: 2013-10-17 13:42
Posts: 7
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Do Independent Bookstores Really Reflect the Myth They've Created for Themselves? Do Independent Bookstores Really Reflect the Myth They've Created for Themselves?
Taking Offense Taking Offense
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Do Independent Bookstores Really Reflect the Myth They've Created for Themselves? Do Independent Bookstores Really Reflect the Myth They've Created for Themselves?
Taking Offense Taking Offense
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GR Policy with Regard to Author Personal Morality GR Policy with Regard to Author Personal Morality
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date: 2013-10-19 03:04
group: Do Independent Bookstores Really Reflect the Myth They've Created for Themselves? Do Independent Bookstores Really Reflect the Myth They've Created for Themselves? discussion: In my experience...
Hi Wade; I wish you luck with your book, however, I was hoping for a discussion centered around the issue of my post, i.e. your first couple of paragraphs. While I don't seem to mind as much as my colleagues, some participants here and Goodreads believe promoting ones book belongs on discussions d... more »
date: 2013-10-17 19:18
group: Taking Offense Taking Offense discussion: Self-inflicted
Absolutely right. A lot of adolescent behavior. I really loved GR but was dismayed by their over-reaction. They could have fixed things much more gently simply by hiding content except from friends. I have no intention of abandoning GR as I have too much invested there, but did export all my revi... more »
date: 2013-10-17 18:19
group: Taking Offense Taking Offense discussion: Self-inflicted
Excellent comments. Where I'm leading, of course, is to the recent spates of deletions and removals of books, comments, posts, etc., by Kobo, GR, et al. What should be our response, i.e., behavior, to those over-responding to folks taking offense when they have suffered no harm? more »
date: 2013-10-17 17:25
group: Taking Offense Taking Offense discussion: Self-inflicted
So what role does intent play in deciding whether something is "hurtful" or not. If I were to call you a name in a foreign language that you did not understand, my intent would be to be hurtful, yet you would suffer no "harm" since you would not understand the context nor the language, so there is ... more »
date: 2013-10-17 14:55
group: Do Independent Bookstores Really Reflect the Myth They've Created for Themselves? Do Independent Bookstores Really Reflect the Myth They've Created for Themselves? discussion: Reposted - Sorry if you see this twice. Experimenting
So-called independent bookstores want us to support them. They argue they represent a locus of civility and literacy not available from the chains, and certainly not from online distributors like Amazon. I argue they are dooming themselves to irrelevancy and hurting the very business they purport to... more »
date: 2013-10-17 14:31
group: Taking Offense Taking Offense discussion: Self-inflicted
It's my thesis that nothing is intrinsically offensive, that we personally decided whether to be offended or not and we can choose not to be. We can decide not to see something, not to expose our children to things we dislike. I think we've lost the distinction between what's offensive and those ... more »
date: 2013-10-17 13:46
group: Do Independent Bookstores Really Reflect the Myth They've Created for Themselves? Do Independent Bookstores Really Reflect the Myth They've Created for Themselves? discussion: In my experience...
So-called independent bookstores want us to support them. They argue they represent a locus of civility and literacy not available from the chains, and certainly not from online distributors like Amazon. I argue they are dooming themselves to irrelevancy and hurting the very business they purport ... more »
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