Being a liberal bookstore means you must pretend Republicans are “banning” books when you’re the one actually doing it. This is true even if the author is a literary titan.
Enter Booksmith, a nearly 50-year-old bookstore in San Francisco that is finished with J.K. Rowling, who wrote the wildly popular Harry Potter series that has dominated entertainment, through books, movies, and an upcoming television series, since 1997. Rowling recently announced a legal fund that would help “individuals and organisations fighting to retain women’s sex-based rights in the workplace, in public life, and in protected female spaces.”
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That was the last straw from Booksmith, run by a self-described “group of queer booklovers.” Those queer booklovers admit that they “don’t know exactly” what the fund will even do, but they don’t want to be part of it, because Rowling holds the wildly controversial view that men are not women. Therefore, Booksmith is banning Rowling’s books from its bookstore, instead offering a whole section in the store of books that are similar to the Harry Potter series.
Just so we’re clear, Booksmith says, “it’s not politics at all.” It’s just a left-wing bookstore taking a totally apolitical stand to say that men belong in women’s locker rooms, and anyone who opposes that must be evil. Not political at all.
Of course, none of this would be complete without a little brazen hypocrisy. Booksmith is one of many collections of left-wing whiners who have wailed about “book bans,” where Republican politicians have sought to remove transgender propaganda books and actual pornographic content out of schools. Those books were placed in schools under the noses of parents by left-wing activists, who pretend it is only controversial to want to remove those books and not controversial to have inserted them into school libraries and curriculum in the first place.
Booksmith is so far down the “book ban” rabbit hole that it even has a promotion on its website, a book drive called “Books Not Bans,” which will last “From now until forever.” The drive consists of people sending donations to help “send crates of queer, affirmative, necessary books all over the country to people who need them.” That is because this is a “lifeline for people whose lives and wellbeing are in danger” in their “book deserts” and we must “directly funnel queer books into the hands of people who need them.” (Emphasis mine).
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Apparently, people will “literally die” without the crates of queer books we must airdrop to them like they are starving Germans in Soviet-blockaded Berlin.
The self-importance is almost as impressive as the hypocrisy, which is par for the course. Crying about fake book bans and then crying about the political views of someone such as Rowling while instituting your own book bans is about what we should all expect from a left-wing bookstore. After all, how can they really know what a book ban is if they can’t even tell what a woman is?