Apparently, Walden / Borders will now be deciding which issues of magazines they’re going to carry based on content. In an effort to placate the savages that have been firebombing and destroying at the mere sight of the cartoons, they won’t be carrying this month’s issue of Free Inquiry Magazine.

A bookstore chain’s decision not to carry a magazine has sparked a debate on what a corporation’s obligation is to free speech vs. the safety of its employees.

Borders, which also owns Waldenbooks, announced last week that it would not carry the April-May issue of Free Inquiry magazine, which contains the Danish cartoons that offended many in the Muslim world. Though there have been no reports of direct threats against stores carrying the magazine, a Borders spokeswoman says the decision was “based on the potential for a compromise of the safety and security of our employees.”

So… All it takes to get a magazine off the shelf at Borders is to make yourself fearsome enough that your offense is their highest priority. Ponder, for a moment, if Borders has ever not carried an issue of a magazine that calls abortion a “choice,” or says that gay marriage is just another thing. Maybe you can ponder if the magazines that loved The Last Temptation of Christ or who routinely assault middle America under the guise of intellectualism.

In the future, if you don’t like an issue of a magazine, firebomb a few stores. It’ll get it off the shelf.

At least at Borders.

(via Brain Terminal)

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