When I was in high school, I earned a gold medal at the Wisconsin state Forensics competition for a four-minute speech on banned books. I was proud of that, but I was also a teenager who didn't truly grasp what banned books meant, guided by teachers who — while not as radical as some teachers now — were still Left-leaning and didn't bother to correct my ignorance.
What a difference a quarter of a century makes. With that time, I've come to realize that there are very few books that are truly "banned." Most of them are books that certain schools simply chose not to include in their curricula or libraries. Most recently, those books include a plethora of LGBTQ+ offerings, including ones targeted at elementary school kids, that contain graphic descriptions of sexual behavior, anatomy, or other "queer" topics. One such book about puberty, written by Democrat consultant Morris Katz, almost contained a picture of Katz's genitals, as I wrote about here. This books are so wildly inappropriate that school boards have objected to parents or conservative board members reading them aloud at meetings, yet somehow believe they're perfectly fine for the middle school library.
The Left screamed and whined any time such books were removed from shelves. They called it a ban, censorship, an egregious attack on freedom of thought and gay rights.
But recently, Amazon briefly pulled paperback and hardcover copies of "Camp of the Saints" from its service, citing "offensive content" policies, and I didn't hear a peep from these people. In fact, they defended the decision.
r/BannedBooks celebrates over Amazon banning "Camp of the Saints"
— Reddit Lies (@reddit_lies) April 21, 2026
The comments are wild:
"As a librarian that's not actually a book, I would remove it from my library"
"I don't like book bans, but..."
"It's not a book ban because it's a private company" pic.twitter.com/sHyb5coGsV
"As a librarian, I am against the banning of books," wrote one Reddit user. "The operative word here being 'books' and Camp of Saints is less of a book and more of a racist declamation. It would have wound up on my weeding cart one day or another."
"I don't like book bans, but when the main idea of a book is 'maybe Western society isn't racist enough,' I can make an exception. This book is despicable trash," wrote another.
"You know, I came to comments expecting that it was banned because LGBT or something. I'm okay with banning Nazi rhetoric," wrote a third.
Another defended it as Amazon being a "private company making stocking decisions."
And "Camp of the Saints" has been banned on Reddit for years.
Camp of the Saints has been de facto banned on r/bannedbooks for years pic.twitter.com/cDp33Uqa3Z
— Reddit Lies (@reddit_lies) April 21, 2026
"Camp of the Saints" was written in 1973 by French author Jean Raspail. In that book — and stop me if this sounds familiar — Raspail envisions a dystopian future where French and European society collapses under the weight of unchecked mass migration from the Third World.
The book itself focuses on a fictional flotilla from India called the "Last Chance Armada" that heads towards France while French leaders grapple with the guilt of colonialism, racism, and "universalist compassion."
Gee, that sounds eerily familiar, doesn't it?
Those elites fear being called intolerant even when the invaders overwhelm infrastructure, commit crimes, and cause societal breakdowns, including riots, cultural erosion, and interracial conflicts.
In a desperate attempt to preserve Western culture, a few characters make a last stand against the destruction of their society.
In short, Raspail's book was prescient. And the Left's reaction to Amazon's brief ban proves his novel's hypothesis correct. I have long argued that the Left believes racism and "intolerance" are worse "crimes" than rape, murder, robbery, and the destruction of Western culture. They, after all, want the destruction of Western culture because they despise it and the wealth and power it's afforded us.
It's also the reason why parts of the world are civilized and functional, as opposed to the nations from which the Left imports millions.But that's a topic for another time.
Right now, it's clear that the Left is perfectly fine with — nay, encourages — actual book bans of works that make them uncomfortable, ones that hold up a mirror to their toxic empathy and reveal their plans to destroy the West, or ones they simply don't like. Remember, the people who scream about Nazis everywhere routinely burned Harry Potter books because author J.K. Rowling doesn't bend the knee on trans ideology.
I ordered a copy of "Camp of the Saints" for my bookshelf because preserving these works is vital to a free society, and even if they ban it elsewhere, I will still have a copy.
There's a word for people who ban and burn books they don't like. We call them fascists. The Left knows this word, because they accuse everyone of being fascists while ignoring their own behavior.
And that's what this is: actual fascist behavior.
It's not enough for them not to read these books. They have to actively make it impossible for others to read them, too. I wonder what they're afraid of.
