Yeah I’m frankly baffled and hurt. I don’t hate Paul, I have a slightly different definition of what a book ban is, I’m queer and disabled (in a very ableist country btw), and yet here is Ophie accusing me of things, because I don’t agree with them???

You’re putting words into my mouth, and are assigning opinions that I don’t hold. As a queer Person myself, I find this answer insulting. You could have simply stated that we disagree without assign made up stuff to me. It would be nice if you could apologise

Don is an Indie author, and after watching his video, as well as other videos from marginalised ppl, I still call bull on Paul’s claims

Well the store that was targeted by his fans was run by a queer person.
I finally found one of the TikTok creators who got me interested in this whole debacle:

vm.tiktok.com/ZNdTwXAua/

I personally call bull on his claims and call bull on it being a “homophobic” book ban

He never showed evidence for his claims, and given that that particular indie bookstore was very likely run by a queer person themselves (if the bookstore identified on TikTok is truly that store), plus given that another queer author reached out to the store and heard a totally different story 1/

This isnt the definition of a book ban I learned & developed. Plus this isn’t at all what happene in this case. The bookstore didn’t carry the books due to not agree with the message. He tried to wholesale 100+ books to an Indie bookstore and tha simply not what they can afford

Again: Please do some research before posting this stuff. Other Queer, marginalised authors have made excellent videos on TikTok e.g., receipts inc that he’s indeed playing the victim, that a lot of his claims are false, etc. Laura’s vi is clearly an extension of these videos

But he wasn’t banned from the bookstore. Please I implore you to do some research into this situation, before you make these statements. And as someone born in a country, where they burned books by queer authors: A bookstore not selling a book is NOT a book ban, or even remotely close

I’m very surprised that you jumped to not only these conclusions but publicly posted them, without doing some research and going after someone who frankly doesn’t deserve it. This is giving me serious pause to engage with your content, since this isn’t what I know of you

I’m going to disagree big time with you on Laura & on your take of her video. She has always been LGBT inclusive, and in this case hasn’t misconstrued or misinterpreted the situation at hand. This author has a long history of pity marketing, indirectly going after other marginalised people 1/

Ich bin *geschockt*…nicht wirklich

what you really need to do is ask yourself why footage of charlie kirk being all over twitter (and here) is offending you more than the nearly 2 years of kids being executed by israel every, single, day.

or have you not seen that? if not, why not?