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
I'm not sure how someone voluntarily withdrawing their book once it was pointed out that it had racist overtones is in any way an example of the "chilling" and "censorious" nature of our culture
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No possible effect you can think of on the next Asian YA author thinking of writing about slavery in Asian? Or a future publisher of that novel?
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I'm not saying it's not having an effect, I'm saying calling this silencing is a ridiculous overreach. It's equating an unfortunate allusion with laws restricting freedom of speech
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