There's no campaign to re-hire people, no investment in a legal fund to defend them, just a ridiculous letter decrying the horrors of "cancellation"
The US only just - in 2020! - made it illegal to fire people for being transgender. But the horrors of a few people being fired unfairly for social media faux pas has prompted such widespread outrage among these powerful writers that they decided to get together and be angry
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And more broadly, the non-Shor examples cited in the letter could quite easily be described not as "chilling silencing" but as "perfectly foreseeable consequences of awful public opinions"
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Are any of these about 'awful public opinions'?: "books are withdrawn for alleged inauthenticity; journalists are barred from writing on certain topics; professors are investigated for quoting works of literature in class"pic.twitter.com/BetMgDIML5
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