Kroger goes into censorship mode in response to a single complaint
It may not be illegal, but it is censorship
"The Rutherford Reader is a family-owned ,family-operated weekly publication that has been in business since August 3, 2000. The Reader, as it is known, is based out of Murfreesboro, TN a city of just over 100,000 people, which is part of the Nashville, TN. metropolitan area. It is a free weekly newspaper published by Pete Doughtie...
The paper is circulated by Distributech throughout the Rutherford County, TN area to various businesses. One of the locations where Distributech has newspaper racks is Kroger, the national grocery chain.
On Monday, May 10 Pete Doughtie received a phone call from Distributech representative, Rodney Barton, informing him that as of Friday, May 14, that they were no longer going to allow The Reader to use their racks.
When Doughtie asked for what reason, Barton’s reply was “because of the hate speech stories you print about Muslims and Islam.” At that point, Barton was asked to show Doughtie one issue containing hate speech and Barton ignored the request....
The bottom line is this, political correctness is rearing its ugly head once again, and fundamental rights of free speech are the casualties. Have we now reached the point that nothing negative can be printed against Islam either, even when it’s the truth? I thought only pictures of Mohammed were “offensive”.
When corporations both large and small start letting one individual dictate what all of us can read, we might as well be living under Communist rule and forget being able to get the truth because that just went out the window when political correctness came in. Kroger, KFC and anyone else who stops carrying newspapers based on whether someone’s feeling might be hurt is setting a dangerous precedent of censorship that will affect us all.
Hell, the Kroger near me had several newspapers this week calling Israel the aggressor over the Aid to Gaza Flotilla, I think I’ll demand that stop carrying all those papers since it was hate speech against Israel.
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If anybody reading this has a Kroger nearby, they might like to check out what newspapers are available there and complain about any Leftist or Muslim hate speech in them. I would be most interested in the details of any response.
5 comments:
Wal-Mart plays the same game with music, magazines and video-games, but from a family-values perspective.
"Bakers" is the Kroger chain here in this part of the Great Plains.
Policital correctness is spreading across Amerika (and other countries) like a freedom-devouring plague. It has already dramatically altered our politics, our sense of reality, our language, and our very way of life, including how our children are being educated. Why? Because generally speaking, the American people lack the will and the brains to stop it. They generally see it as something "cute, trendy", or a sign of someones "intellect". Those perceptions are not only false, but "dangerously" wrong!
PC, like terrorism, is fueled by weakness and ignorance. It has also become one of the most powerful tools of it's creators, the Left. It was/is intended to push people further and further away from reality, and gives the Left an incredible amount of control over how we live our everyday lives. It will continue to fester and spread so long as the people remain weak and oblivious to it's very real dangers.
It's political correctness, not censorship.
Censorship is imposed by a government, and last I heard Islam isn't yet the government of the USA (though with president Soetoro you never know).
PC, in most of it's forms, is pure censorship. And censorship can be imposed by "any" entity that has power and authority over people, including big business. Most large corporations today "mandate" an adherence to political correctness, albeit "unoffically" in some cases. But it's real and non-compliance will get you canned!
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