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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Grimshaw is the apparent cause of the ruckus, being hired as acquisitions's editor at Tisdale's current company.
There was no issue until after Grimshaw surfaced there and got on twitter. Then they went after her, Tisdale, and the book. In that order, apparently.
Did you check this above?
http://teachmetonight.blogspot.com/2...nce-buyer.html
I'd quote more but it gets very political very fast.
Which is why it all smells of non-literary. A bad historical characterizarion doesn't by itself start a mess now watched on both sides of the Atlantic.
This is not about an author complaining about a review. |
I
did read it, and it's patently obvious that the bottom line is that it's not PC to be a conservative, or to "like" a tweet or video from anyone who's paid by Fox (in this case, two black women "Diamond and Silk."). That's the bottom line. I can find NO example, at all, of the woman being remotely "racist,"
other than being a Trump supporter and conservative. (Mods: yes, I know, this is about RWA, but evidence is evidence and lack of it is lack of it. I'm doing nothing but discussing the evidence in the case.)
Did anyone here--anyone at all--see
anything other than that? (Happy to read anything with actual evidence of the alleged act, if it exists?) Because I don't. I see an accusation (I read the
entire RWA submissions and
everything that the RWA ethics committee reviewed as evidence, which consisted of screenshots of the "racist" liking the D&S tweets, a tweet from Trump and then, wait for it, accusations from other people that she WAS a racist, citing the "evidence" that yes, she liked those tweets), and then I see the RWA with their damned hair on fire taking
wholly inappropriate action (and then reversing themselves) when they shouldn't have done a damned thing in the first place.
The
egregiousness of what's happened here is horrific. This really is right out of
1984. Frankly, this level of ineptitude and the fact that an entity comprised of WRITERS would ignore the First Amendment like this is nauseating--they
deserve to crash and burn for it.
What next? If someone applies to be an RWA member, will their social media be analyzed, first? Will they have to take a loyalty pledge or "purity test" so that only non-Conservatives need apply?
Writers.
WRITERS are doing this. OMG, just think about it.
/rant
Hitch