/One time I went into a Border's bookstore in a mall and couldn't BELIEVE the ridiculous number of witchcraft books available, placed in a very prominent spot./
Unless those were Harry Potter books, you're making stuff up. I've been regularly shopping in bookstores for years, and as far as I've seen, the Wicca/pagan/astrology/New Age sections are never in the forefront of the stores.
/Outraged, I stepped to the cashier's counter and asked them why Border's was carrying such DARK, DARK material./
Dark? Please, I bet that you think that "Winnie the Pooh" is dark and full of witchcraft because it's full of talking animals. I bet that none of those books that you (supposedly) saw were anywhere near as dark as the Bible.
/I promptly got brushed-off./
*deadpan* I am so surprised. Not.
/The clerk didn't even look me in the eye, but kept her head lowered over the cash register and mumbled something about not being able to help what books management ordered./
That poor clerk. I can only imagine what she must have been thinking.
/I told her to tell "management" it was NOT appreciated for them to stack those kinds of books (The Satanic Bible, for one) in a prominent spot, so that every teenager that walked in would see it!!!!!!!!!/
First of all, why do you need all of those exclamation marks? Second of all, not appreciated by whom? You? Well, sorry, but you're not their only customer. Borders has thousands of customers per day and some of them DO appreciate the fact that Borders has those kinds of books. Otherwise, Borders wouldn't sell them. Third of all, of the bookstores that I've been to, I have NEVER seen "The Satanic Bible" in a "prominent" spot. So, there is no way that "every teenager who walked in would see it." The only people who would see it would be the people who were already looking for it.
/I told her they shouldn't even ORDER those kinds of books because it is influencing the younger generation!!! She just basically ignored me./
I don't blame her. Who the heck are you to say which books should and should not be sold? Do you work in Borders? Are you the manager? The CEO? Did you create the company yourself? No? Then how is it any of your business? You are just ONE customer. Some people like "The Satanic Bible." That's it. Not everybody who reads it believes in it, just like not everybody who reads the Bible believes in what's written in there. There are a multitude of reasons why a person could choose to buy it. But that's the thing, they CHOOSE to buy it. You have no right to deprive them of that choice or of the bookstore's choice to sell that particular book.
Besides, it's not the clerk's fault that Borders has those books. She has no control over which books are ordered and shipped in. What did you want her to do, tell the manager to remove all of the copies of the books from the store and destroy them in a bonfire? Do you realize that they could be fired or sued for that? Do you even care?
/So long as IT SELLS, they don't give a hoot!!!!!!! The Almighty Dollar is what counts!!!/
Welcome to capitalism. Strange, I thought that fundies were for capitalism and that anything remotely resembling socialism or communism was the devil's work. What gives?
/I wish MORE people would complain and/or boycott those stores selling GARBAGE./
Once again, this time in all capital letters: YOU ARE NOT THEIR ONLY CUSTOMER. YOU ARE NOT SPECIAL. YOUR WISHES DO NOT OVVERIDE THE WISHES OF OTHERS. STOP BEING SO SELFISH AND NARROW-MINDED AND GET ON WITH YOUR LIFE!
There are some books that I really don't like, that I believe are pure trash, and that I believe contain negative, disgusting messages, and yet they're sold in bookstores everywhere. Does that give me a right to march up to hapless store clerks and demand that those books be immediately and permanently removed from the shelves? Even though other people may enjoy them? No, because I recognize that there are such things as freedom of speech and freedom of the press, you twit. Also, there is such a thing as different tastes. What may be a person's favorite book may be a book that, for another person, should be thrown with great force.
/Honestly, when I was a teenager (okay, back in Prehistoric Times, lolol), if a store carried a book like that, there would be a Lynching Party!!!!!!!!!!!/
I am not black myself, but (there shouldn't even need to be a "but") the careless glee and facetiousness of your last sentence utterly disgust me. Lynchings were and ARE not a joke. Many African-Americans today have relatives who were lynched. I don't know if it is true of any of my black friends, but I do know that at the very least, their parents and grandparents had to live with the reality that they COULD have been lynched, that the vicious, bestial white mobs of monsters, who brutally murdered innocent African-Americans for the "crime" of being black, could have turned on them. The fact that you would joke about such a horrible thing and use it in reference to a bookstore that committed the "crime" of selling a book that you didn't like only shows how insensitive, culturally tonedeaf, boneheaded, and isolated you are. For shame.
