{"id":2282983,"date":"2024-06-25T06:30:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T10:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/read-the-book-review-amazon-banned-as-hate-speech\/"},"modified":"2024-06-25T06:37:17","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T10:37:17","slug":"read-the-book-review-amazon-banned-as-hate-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/read-the-book-review-amazon-banned-as-hate-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Read The Book Review Amazon Banned As &#8216;Hate Speech&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fread-the-book-review-amazon-banned-as-hate-speech%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2282983&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses a series of issues \u2063encountered with the Amazon listing of the book &#8220;False Flag: Why \u2062Queer Politics Mean the End of America&#8221; by Joy Pullmann. After \u2062its release, the book consistently showed as out of stock, and there were \u2063difficulties in finding the book through Amazon\u2019s search using both the title\u200d and the author&#8217;s \u200cname (despite variants \u2063of the spelling being included in search terms). A review submission by John Lucas\u2063 was initially flagged \u200band delayed by\u200d Amazon for allegedly containing prohibited\u2064 content, though the author\u2064 disputes this characterization, comparing \u200cit to other controversial materials sold\u2064 on\u200b Amazon. \u200dThe review, and others like it, took a \u200clong time to be posted, adding to suspicions \u200dof censorship\u2063 given Amazon&#8217;s known stance and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iran-claims-victory-over-united-states-as-new-nuke-talks-begin\/\" title=\"Iran Claims Victory Over United States as New Nuke Talks Begin\">internal pressures<\/a> regarding books \u2062challenging certain\u2064 ideological perspectives. The author reached out to Amazon\u200b for explanations but hadn&#8217;t received a response by the time of publication.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Since my latest book, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/false-colors-the-flag-of-our-occupation-joy-pullmann\/20707173?ean=9781684515875\">False Flag: Why Queer Politics Mean the End of America<\/a><\/em>, was released last Tuesday, its Amazon page has been acting extremely strangely. Not only was the book out of stock on Amazon for almost the entire week of its release, but friends I gave review copies before release day had a devil of a time getting those reviews posted to Amazon at all. Oh, did I mention people can\u2019t find my book on Amazon when they search for it by name?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the strangest behavior was Amazon\u2019s reply to Federalist contributor John Lucas, who submitted his review of <em>False Flag<\/em> to Amazon on June 18, the day the book came out. Not until June 24 did Amazon send him an apparent autoreply that claimed his review contained \u201chate speech\u201d or a variety of other Amazon no-nos. Here\u2019s a screenshot of the Amazon response email John sent me, timestamped 5:04 a.m. ET on June 24.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Here\u2019s the text of Lucas\u2019 review as he submitted it on June 18. Judge for yourself whether it contains \u201chate speech,\u201d \u201cProfanity,\u201d \u201cHarassment,\u201d \u201cSexual content,\u201d \u201cIllegal activity,\u201d or \u201cPrivate information.\u201d Hint: It doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Lucas\u2019 speech that triggered the Amazon reviewer was his assertion that \u201cthe military is being manipulated to embrace the barbarism of transgenderism.\u201d A full chapter in the book documents the U.S. military doing exactly that. Several sections of other chapters discuss how heinous it is to strip the skin off a teenager\u2019s arm to create fake male genitals and to regularly leave male genital amputees soaking themselves with urine every time they use the bathroom. Love is love, amirite?<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe Lucas using the term \u201crainbow mafia\u201d triggered the reviewer. As others have noted, however, Amazon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s?k=mein+kampf\">sells copies of<\/a>, for example, <em>Mein Kampf<\/em>, Adolf Hitler\u2019s infamous autobiography that celebrates race-based hatred and murder. Amazon publishes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Donald-Trump-Adolf-Hitler-Comparison\/dp\/1530288630\/ref=sr_1_3?sr=8-3\">books that compare Donald Trump to Hitler<\/a>, certainly a more offensive comparison than \u201crainbow mafia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amazon reviews of Matt Walsh\u2019s book <em>What Is a Woman?<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/customer-reviews\/R2B7RLQIKLJVU9\/ref=cm_cr_getr_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&#038;ASIN=1956007008\">claim <\/a>that gender extremists are \u201cgrooming\u201d children and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/customer-reviews\/RQH8RB1G3FUQF\/ref=cm_cr_getr_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&#038;ASIN=1956007008\">use the phrase<\/a> \u201cleftist woke mob.\u201d An Amazon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/customer-reviews\/R248FH3UTUKLD8\/ref=cm_cr_getr_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&#038;ASIN=B084YC53BR\">review <\/a>of Abigail Shrier\u2019s <em>Irreversible Damage<\/em> says trans activists are \u201cbutchering\u201d kids. Seems like \u201crainbow mafia\u201d is within the already published Amazon review norms.<\/p>\n<p>I reached out to Amazon to ask why Lucas\u2019 review was flagged as violating their policy. As of publication, they haven\u2019t responded. I\u2019d also like to ask them about several other fishy things that have happened with this book on their book-selling platform. Here\u2019s a rundown.<\/p>\n<h2>Book Title, Author Don\u2019t Bring Up the Book<\/h2>\n<p>See these images friends sent me. Most people spell my last name incorrectly, with just one \u201cN\u201d instead of the correct two. To help with that, my publisher put the misspelled last name into the Amazon book page\u2019s search terms. Yet still some people can\u2019t find my book when they type my name and the book title into the Amazon search bar.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The misspelled last name <em>does<\/em> sometimes, however, bring up my previous book. That means Amazon knows \u201cJoy Pullman\u201d and \u201cJoy Pullmann\u201d are the same person and tied to the book titled <em>False Flag<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, people who typed in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-fans-the-flames-labels-trump-supporters-domestic-terrorists-video\/\" title=\"Biden Fans the Flames, Labels Trump Supporters \u201cDomestic Terrorists\u201d (VIDEO)\">false flag<\/a>\u201d saw \u201cjoy pullman\u201d in the Amazon search bar\u2019s autofill, but then when they clicked on that autofill, it brought them to the page above, which, of course, does not show the only book that fulfills those search terms.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h2>\u2018Out of Stock\u2019 Almost Entire Week of Publication<\/h2>\n<p>A few hours after my book was released on June 18, Amazon listed it as \u201cout of stock\u201d and continued to do that for the entirety of release week. Here\u2019s June 18\u2019s screenshot.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Here\u2019s June 19. Still out of stock.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Here\u2019s June 20. Still out of stock.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<h2>No Ship Date or Delivery for Two Weeks<\/h2>\n<p>Amazon is famous for fast shipping. They can get me nail clippers from Germany in a day or two. Usually, Amazon can even deliver books that people preorder on the same day as a book\u2019s release day. But people who ordered <em>my <\/em>book on release day got an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/protesters-who-issued-sos-signal-across-u-s-ontario-border-slapped-with-criminal-charges\/\" title=\"Protesters Who Issued \u2018SOS\u2019 Signal Across U.S.-Ontario Border Slapped With Criminal Charges\">email telling<\/a> them they wouldn\u2019t get the book for about another two weeks.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Some people who ordered the book in the days after it was released were given no ship date at all.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Slow Review Posting Time<\/h2>\n<p>Lucas was one of several dozen friends who volunteered to help other people hear about my book by reading an early review copy I shared and posting their honest opinions about it on release day. It took almost the entirety of release week for most of the reviews those friends submitted on Tuesday to go public. Some submitted on release day are still not publicly available, a week later.<\/p>\n<p>There may be completely non-nefarious explanations for all this. Reportedly Amazon\u2019s website and fulfillment can be extremely clunky, especially on the back end for sellers. They do route millions of products all over the globe, after all. But I\u2019m getting emails and texts about this from dozens of people because they\u2019re aware that Amazon and other Big Tech websites have a growing history of suppressing non-leftist speech, especially about sexual politics.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon employees tried to get the company to refuse to sell Shrier\u2019s book. The Seattle Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/business\/amazon\/amazon-overrules-employees-calls-to-stop-selling-book-questioning-controversial-treatment-for-transgender-youth\/\">quoted<\/a> internal messages from employees demanding the company sabotage <em>Irreversible Damage<\/em>, based entirely on its questioning of extremist queer ideology.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Times, the company has a Books Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion group that advocates for choking books that question queer ideology out from the world\u2019s No. 1 book-selling platform. A member of Amazon\u2019s Books DEI team told the Times they fought to defenestrate Shrier\u2019s book from the platform \u201cfor months.\u201d That same year, 2021, Amazon refused to serve customers who wanted to buy Ryan T. Anderson\u2019s W<em>hen Harry Became Sally<\/em>, banning that gender-critical book from its online shelves.<\/p>\n<p>So it wouldn\u2019t be surprising if some Amazon employees were sabotaging another book from the same publisher as Shrier\u2019s that even more harshly criticizes an ideology that legitimizes child abuse, such as carving lifelong open wounds into children\u2019s chests. You can get <em>False Flag<\/em> at <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/false-colors-the-flag-of-our-occupation-joy-pullmann\/20707173?ean=9781684515875\">multiple other retailers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p>      Joy Pullmann is executive editor of The Federalist. Her new book with Regnery is &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/false-colors-the-flag-of-our-occupation-joy-pullmann\/20707173?ean=9781684515875\">False Flag: Why Queer Politics Mean the End of America<\/a>.&#8221;  A happy wife, and the mother of six children, her ebooks include &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/payhip.com\/b\/R1JL\">Classic Books For Young Children<\/a>,&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/payhip.com\/b\/a2Jzp\">101 Strategies For Living Well Amid Inflation<\/a>.&#8221;      An 18-year education and politics reporter, Joy has testified before nearly two dozen legislatures on education policy and appeared on major media from Fox News to Ben Shapiro to Dennis Prager. Joy is a grateful graduate of the Hillsdale College honors and journalism programs who identifies as native American and gender natural.     Her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/professor-banned-from-christian-campus-for-criticizing-identity-politics-settles-case\/\" title=\"Professor settles case after criticizing identity politics on Christian campus\">traditionally published books<\/a> also include &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Education-Invasion-Parents-Control-American\/dp\/1594038813\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1486730068&#038;sr=8-1&#038;keywords=education+invasion\">The Education Invasion: How Common Core Fights Parents for Control of American Kids<\/a>,&#8221; from Encounter Books.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since releasing my latest book, &#8220;False Flag: Why Queer Politics Mean the End of America,&#8221; last Tuesday, its Amazon page has behaved oddly. 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