UPDATE: I had multiple sources for this post, none of which, apparently, were accurate. Plus, the announcement above appears to be false. At this link, the paperback version of the book is indeed available at Amazon. I’m going to wait a bit, and leave this post up until I am confident that the whole thing is a hoax, or figure out what is going.
I apologize for the confusion. Right now I hate everybody and everything.
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See, all you Jeff Bezos haters and Amazon boycotters? There wasn’t anything to get upset about after all. Jeff still cares about your values and the Democratic party, and Amazon is on the right side of the angels after all!
Amazon just censored “Camp of the Saints,” first published in 1973,that portends the destruction of the West as a result of third-world mass migration. Yes, it’s apparently a “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory book.
Never heard of it. However, for Amazon, the most popular and easily accessed book merchant, to refuse to sell a book like “Camp of the Saints” is undeniably viewpoint censorship. Yes, yes, I know, the First Amendment only applies to government censorship. That’s been the go-to rationalization by progressives to control the distribution of ideas they don’t like and find “dangerous” on social media, at college campuses and in the news media for a long time now. But freedom of speech, communication and thought is a core value in this country, or is supposed to be.
All my Trump-Deranged Facebook friends who announced they were boycotting Amazon, and the Washington Post staffers who resigned in protest when Bezos, the owner of the D.C.-based Democratic Party propaganda mouthpiece, refused to endorse Kamala Harris for President, should beg his forgiveness. Bezos is part of their club: he just didn’t want a paper he publishes to look ridiculous by endorsing an idiot.
By the way, I find Kamala’s ghost-written memoir of her run for President to be “offensive content.”
One wag writes on X: “I’m sure all the people who whine about ‘book bans’ when a school board prevents 6-year-olds from reading about gay sex” will be just as upset about this development. Funny, but I doubt it.
This also looks like an excellent opportunity to demonstrate to the unschooled how the Streisand Effect works. As I just noted, I never heard of the book, and wouldn’t have read it I had been aware of it. However, for the real defenders of democracy and our individual rights as Americans, making this book, whatever it says, into a runaway best seller now might teach the totalitarian Left a lesson. Here is what it looks like:
Nah, what am I thinking? The totalitarian Left hasn’t learned anything since it memorized Big Brother’s mottos—you know, like “IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH,” which explains the state of both our educational institutions and our journalism.
Ethics Alarms 
“Yes, yes, I know, the First Amendment only applies to government censorship. That’s been the go-to rationalization by progressives to control the distribution of ideas they don’t like and find “dangerous” on social media, at college campuses and in the news media for a long time now.”
That is their go-to rationalization when they and their allies are doing the censoring. When the same institutions do that when a Republican administration is in office, it’s all censorship.
If they didn’t have double standards, they’d have no standards at all.
Some would argue this is no different than an Islamic bookstore refusing to sell books that promote atheism.
If Amazon didn’t have such an outsized presence in the book selling industry, I could see that. But someone who goes into an Islamic bookstore expecting to find a book promoting atheism is pressing their luck. There is a huge difference between the two.
I just ordered the book from Amazon, and it will arrive in early May. The book is still available at Amazon, and I do not see any evidence of this book not being available at Amazon. Maybe this book is not available in the UK or France, but in the USA it is still available.
Here is the link:
What???? Two websites and blogs informed me that the book was no longer being sold on Amazon. The notice I posted from the publishers states that, as you can see, the book is no longer being sold.
I’m sick of this. I can’t trust anybody. Do I pull the post now? That’s another hour I’ll wish I had back on my deathbed.
Is it possible that the pull was temporary? Amazon may very well have stopped sales of the book until it became public knowledge and quietly restored them.
Another source I read stated that paperback copies had been halted, so it may be that they didn’t get all of the versions of the book.
I agree that it’s hard to know who to trust.
I did buy the paperback. It is not halted, at least not in the USA. But Nathan Pinkoski who wrote the introduction to the book also states that the book has been banned. So we do not know what exactly is going on here. I will see if the book arrives.
https://pinkoski.substack.com/p/alert-amazon-has-banned-camp-of-the
looks like Amazon quickly realized that censorship isn’t popular anymore and backpeddaled:
https://notthebee.com/article/amazon-removes-1973-novel-about-the-destruction-of-western-civilization-through-mass-migration-from-the-third-world
Amazon indeed relented. Amazon admitted an “error” after first communicating to Vauban that the book was removed from Amazon due to “offensive content”. Am I wrong to conclude that Amazon’s conduct is like that of a weasel?
Speaking about “offensive content”, Mein Kampf from Adolf Hitler can still be bought at Amazon. Being a First Amendment absolutist I have no problem with that of course; I just want to note that Amazon has no principles, no spine, and no consistent policies.