This is What Censorship Looks Like
Amazon removed the paperback edition of French writer Jean Raspail’s 1973 novel "The Camp of the Saints" from its U.S. listings Friday, citing a violation of its offensive content policy.
Vauban Books, the publisher of the 2025 English edition, made the announcement Monday after the dystopian novel was flagged for "offensive content."...
The novel is dystopian fiction that examines what happens when mass immigration meets a society that has lost its self-preservation instincts...
Raspail’s book has become a cult classic, especially among the right, who view it as a parallel to our current societal changes brought about by mass immigration to the U.S...
Raspail sees the host society as the villain because of its impotent surrender. He is warning us that a society that treats its own survival as immoral will not survive...
Retired U.S. diplomat Alberto Miguel Fernandez criticized Amazon for removing the novel while continuing to sell books written by or about communist leaders, and demanded that the company reverse its decision.
"Crazy, foolish action by [Amazon] that must be reversed. Meanwhile you can still purchase the works of murdering communists Lenin, Mao, Stalin, Castro, Enver Hoxha and Kim Il Sung. I find that content deeply 'offensive.' So they removed a fifty-year old novel but not them," he said...
Those leaders oversaw systems that produced roughly 100 million deaths through famine, purges, labor camps, and executions...
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