Offensive Material Policy

[littlestj]

Why not offer a way to add a disclaimer that an antique or vintage book contains offensive or racially insensitive language or images.  Now that the Dr. Suess gouging frenzy is over a year old, shouldn't this policy be revisited.  Competing selling sites are selling these books.  Couldn't eBay do it more responsibly by adding a warning statement.  Blazing Saddles, Nazi coins and swastikas are now for sale on eBay.   What percentage of eBays current inventory needs to be reported/removed based on their current policy?  There doesn't seem to be a method for sellers to make policy suggestions directly that I could find.

[slnoonan]

People who think that erasing history by deciding for the public what is offensive are working against their own convictions. Imagine that ebay and the rest of the wold decided to erase all references to prejudice, along with all books that promote prejudice... Where would people go to understand the truth about prejudice in the past? Moreover, on what basis does ebay and other history erasers set themselves up as arbitrators of what is offensive or non-offensive. So remove hitler, goering, and the like, from the historical record, how then will we be able to recognize such evil when it pops up in the world?

-- Joe