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August 5, 2010
Amazon Kindle Suppressed by Injustice Department
Posted by Dave Blount at August 5, 2010 1:06 PM
From the Personal Liberty Digest comes a story that makes clear why as a society we are going nowhere but down unless we get the boot of liberalism off of our neck:
It seems that last year Princeton, Arizona State and Case Western Reserve universities undertook an experiment to see if e-book readers would be more convenient and less costly than traditional textbooks. … So the universities set aside a couple of courses under a pilot program with a limited number of students and gave them the OPTION of using the Amazon Kindle. Amazon supplied the Kindle DX for the student's use. But if the students chose to they could opt out and use a standard textbook.
Even libs ought to like this concept. After all, books are made out of paper, which oppresses trees. However…
That idea didn't sit well with President Barack Obama's radical Department of Justice Civil Rights Division head Thomas Perez, who sued the universities for violating the Americans With Disabilities Act. Why? Although the Kindle has a text-to-speech feature that can read a book aloud, it requires sight to operate the menu functions. So Perez assumed the courses were discriminatory to the visually impaired. …
The Civil Rights Division ordered the universities stop distributing the Kindle because if blind students couldn't use the device, then nobody could.
Never mind that no visually impaired students had registered for the classes. Never mind that the idea makes economic and environmental sense. Never mind that the technology was evolving quickly and the text-to-speech capabilities were improving. All Perez could see was that someone might be left behind.
The problem with that school of thought is, when you are so intent on making sure no one is left behind you also ensure that no one gets ahead. But isn't that the goal of totalitarian regimes?
There you have it: the squishy soft tyranny of sanctimonious liberal fascism in a nutshell.
Meanwhile, this same Justice Department has no problem with Black Panther thugs armed with truncheons scaring white people away from the polls on election day. Progressivism isn't about justice or "civil rights." It's about oppression as an end in itself.
They never run out of things they want to take away from us.
On a tip from Jodie.
