The company then turns around and says, "See, they're selling; there's demand for these books! Taking them off the display would be telling our customers what to think" and their circular argument begins again. They don't care that it empowers bigoted customers to spout their hatred in public [3/5]

or that it makes marginalised customers feel unsafe and unwelcome, or that their own employees feel degraded and unsupported. They boast of being "cultural tastemakers" when it suits them, and claim to be perfectly apolitical and powerless when it doesn't. They care about profit, not people. [4/5]