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Originally Posted by Hitch
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
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Now I'm baffled. I completely agree with your first paragraph above, but how do you get from that to the second paragraph? I mean, did you somehow fail to notice who used their freedom of speech to say what they meant, and who tried to force people with undesirable opinions out of RWA?
I'll recap:
- Donald Trump, Diamond and Silk, and others use their freedom of speech to write about (among other topics) concentration camps, ICE raids, and white supremacy.
- Grimshaw uses her freedom of speech to like some of those tweets.
- Davis uses her freedom of speech to write a book.
- Milan uses her freedom of speech to criticise Grimshaw's and Davis' speech, and to criticise Tisdale for employing them in positions where they serve as gatekeepers for what kind of romance gets purchased by Tisdale's publishing house.
- Tisdale and Davis lodges formal complaints with RWA against Milan's speech.
- RWA, directed by president-elect Damon Suede suspends Milan from RWA for a year, and bans her for lifetime from holding office in RWA.
How
on earth to you get from that to being worried that
conservatives are the ones at risk from being banned from RWA?