Victoria’s oldest independent bookshop has apologised after its owner called for more picture books with “just white kids on the cover” and claimed that the chain would stop stocking “woke agenda” content that divided people.
Susanne Horman, the owner of Robinsons Bookshop chain, posted a series of tweets in December where she called for an “substantial shift” in Australian publishing, arguing the focus should be in line with public opinion, requests for books and “for what is good”.
“What’s missing from our bookshelves in store?” Horman wrote in one tweet, before the account was deleted. “Positive male lead characters of any age, any traditional nuclear white family stories, kids picture books with just white kids on the cover, and no wheelchair, rainbow or indigenous art, non indig [sic] aus history.”
Another post read: “Books we don’t need: hate against white Australians, socialist agenda, equity over equality, diversity and inclusion (READ AS anti-white exclusion), left wing govt propaganda. Basically the woke agenda that divides people. Not stocking any of these in 2024.”
In a Facebook post on Sunday night, Robinsons Bookshop said the comments had been “taken out of context” and “misrepresented the views” of the company.
The context where the person reading them is also a bigot?
I agree, it was incredibly clear that no one should support “Victoria’s favourite bookshop” anymore. The one that really got me was the line about children’s books needing to have more white people, nuclear families and less indigenous art on the covers. Sure, white kids don’t have any media to look to for role models except for 95 fucking percent of media out there.
I really hope this business crashes and burns and we stop seeing cultivation of this kind of hate in this country.
I mean, it mentions “socialist agenda”
That’s a buzzword for “I’m a dumbass”
Same goes for Anti-Woke.
Funny how those people tend to be the same who tell the ‘sheep’ to ‘wake up’.