Opinion
Whenever an anti-white race furore erupts — which is almost daily — I have a simple formula for evaluating whatever its central claim is: flip the script. If, instead of “white”, the subject was any other race, would it be considered racist? Then it’s racist, end of story. If it wouldn’t be considered “racist” about blacks, then it’s not racist.
Case in point: if a bookstore called for more books with Aborigines on the covers, and fewer books about white people, would it be considered “racist”? Of course not. We know this for a fact, because the “anti-racist” left are bellowing exactly that, day in, day out. “Muh reprezentayshun!” is the horking seal chorus used to justify even the most ludicrous blackwashing of everything from The Little Mermaid, to Cleopatra and Hannibal, to supposed black female “Vikings”.
Yet, when a bookshop calls for a halt to the nonstop barrage of divisive “muh diversity”, the race-baiting left erupts in foaming fury.
Susanne Horman, the owner of Robinsons Bookshop, Victoria’s oldest independent bookshop, caused the outrage on social media when a series of tweets from her X/ Twitter account were uploaded to Instagram by the account coffeebooksandmagic. The post has since received hundreds of comments condemning Horman’s views.
Never mind that, as per standard practice with the left, coffeebooksandmagic lied about what Horman had said, claiming she had “vowed not to stock diverse reads” when she had said no such thing at all. But what’s a lie or two between leftists, when they’ve got a fake outrage to stoke?
Here’s what Horman actually said:
In tweets from early December, Horman said books with “any traditional white family stories” and those with “no wheelchair, rainbow or indigenous art, non indig aus history [SIC]” were missing from bookshelves in stores.
“What’s missing from our bookshelves in store? Positive male lead characters of any age, any traditional white family stories, kids picture books with just white kids on the cover, and no wheelchair, rainbow or indigenous art, non indig aus history,” Horman wrote.
As for what Horman supposedly “vowed not to stock”:
“Books we don’t need: hate against white Australians, socialist agenda, equity over equality, diversity and inclusion (READ AS anti-white exclusion), left wing govt propaganda. Basically the woke agenda that divides people. Not stocking any of these in 2024. #weneedbetterstories,” Horman wrote.
Once again, flip the script. Would any lefty have complained about a store vowing not to stock books which promote “hate against black Australians”?
And of course, the gravy-train-jumping box tickers were on it like flies on a possum turd.
Award-winning Yorta Yorta writer and radio host Daniel James said the comments by Horman were shocking and a result of a damaging national conversation that took place during the referendum […]
James also said there were plenty of books written by white authors.
Horman said her buying team at Robinsons have noticed publishers were releasing an overflow of similar books with “little variation of themes” in the past two to three years, which has caused what she said was an “imbalance” in the market.
That’s because the race-baiting industry has strong-armed quotas for this stuff — quotas which are wildly divergent from actual demographics. As (black) scholar Wilfred Reilly has pointed out, blacks and “LGBTQ” characters are vastly over-represented by the media (except when it comes to crime shows, where whites as perpetrators are represented in direct inversion to the actual proportion of crimes committed by blacks rather than whites). Such mendacity has consequences: as Reilly also shows, opinion polling shows that Americans wildly overestimate the actual prevalence of blacks and “LGBTQ”s in the population.
And readers are getting fed up with it.
“For one reason or another we have various categories of books not being written or published in sufficient quantities to meet customer demand,” Horman said. “Some genres are overflowing on our shelves and others are noticeably bare. Positive stories with men and boys as the hero are almost missing from the mix.”
The Age
There’s a reason — an agenda — for all that.
So, if you’re looking for a bookshop worth supporting with an online order or two, well, now you know where to find it: Robinsons Bookshop.