Yes. Note that the letter doesn't use the word 'cancel'. The word it uses is 'censoriousness', defined as: 'an intolerance of opposing views, a vogue for public shaming and ostracism, and the tendency to dissolve complex policy issues in a blinding moral certainty.'
Well, to be fair they are such general statements that they could refer to literally anything, but they seem to relate to recent incidents (such as books being withdrawn from publishing due to Rowling's public comments) that are indeed related to such opinions
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I think again you're missing the context - it's about YA books and diversity/sensitivity: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/31/books/amelie-wen-zhao-blood-heir-ya-author-pulls-debut-accusations-racism.html …. There was an author sacked for tweeting a Rowling hashtag, but no books withdrawn yet AFAIK, and certainly not over 'inauthenticity': https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/scots-author-sacked-backing-jk-rowling-2904530 …
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Lol, if that's the situation they're referring to it's even more absurd. As if someone voluntarily withdrawing their book over perceived racist overtones is horrifying silencing of the worst order
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