Increasing numbers of Right Wing propaganda books showing up at my Goodwill store

My favorite bookstore in town is my local Goodwill store. I go there at least twice a week since it opened. Occasionally when I see a particularly offensive right wing propaganda title I re-shelve it in the humor section. I have seen the people that buy them and always am too polite and respectful of their privacy to start a conversation with them. I always hope they are just buying them to give them a proper disposal. Anyway, I have noticed a steady increase in the diversity of authors and the number of these titles that have been showing up over the past 6 months. There was always a Rush Limbaugh book or two to be sure, but it is amazing what I am seeing. I thought I should start counting them and graph the results just to see if it was real or imaginary, but I am seeing what looks like a very strong trend upwards. So, my questions are, anyone else out there who shops at thrift stores see this happening and what does it mean? Are companies donating these books on mass, many look new, for tax purposes? It's pretty hard to find liberal and progressive titles. If you donate good books to Goodwill or other thrift stores and get nothing else from this post, then I want to pass on a thank you : )

Delay's 'book' as well as some Coulter and a couple others. Now if most people are like me, they keep thier best books. I never give my faves away. So, what does that say about that crap ending up in the used book store?

and hardly ANY books by liberals--it's like 10 to one ratio.

from the trash... just a thought

I'm sure these books appear not only at your local Goodwill, but also in remainder bins in most bookstores. Liberals and progressives write books that people want to hold onto and reread, because they don't insult one's intelligence.

buy oodles of them to drive up the apparent demand, then dump them on NewsMax at five-for-a-dollar sales. How else would freaks like Goldberg even get a publisher? Or this multimillionaire maniac?

by the RW. I walk over to the display and quietly turn them back wards on the rack. In your case you may be able to bury them under something else.

Take Bertrand Russell's "Why I am Not A Christian", other atheist titles, books about the Christians condoning the Holocaust, taken from the Jewish section, books by ol' Fred Nietzsche, Darwin and such, and stuff 'em in the three or four rows of fundie Christian stuff.


I, of course, would never do such a thing nor would I advocate any one else doing such a thing.

Thanks for the visual!

I sift thru thrift stores for old out-of-print things that might have slipped thru, but generally you can pretty much bet on tons of Conservative drivel parked next to 'The Late Great Planet Earth' and a few of those icky 'Left Behind Books'. Next to those is usually a Gideon bible and a Book Of Mormon. If you're (un)lucky you might spot Dianetics. And if you're really really lucky you might find something worth reading.

I think we liberals, being inveterate readers frequent the used bookstore more, I'm always bringing my excess in for trade. And what I have that is really good, I keep ahold of for later reference. We aren't 'disposable' readers for the most part.

At last, America will find a good use for their "works".

"Hey, Ralph, throw another Coulter on the fire."

One young guy practically pushed me out of the way to get a Coulter title I was standing in front of, I really wanted to move it to the humor section but I didn't have a chance. If I had plenty of spare money I would buy em up myself and enjoy them in the fireplace.