Originally Posted by Hitch
As someone else said--the readers can decide. If THEY want to storm the publisher's house, pitchforks drawn, great. Am I the only one pondering, if the passages are so offensive, how come that hasn't happened previously? WHY did this all happen, out of the blue? Oh, wait, right--she liked some tweets. Cancel Culture to the rescue!
What next? Should Twitter storm Amazon, to demand that all the Twains be removed or "fixed?" How about all the other tens of thousands of books, that probably have something in them that someone won't like? Or are they safe, because their authors won't do something STUPID, like liking a tweet?
Oh, no. No, no. In today's world, the chilling effect is very real. For all intents and purposes, it may as well be "real" (official) censorship. When people cannot utter their views for fear of losing their livelihood, not due to a massive consensus of the entirety of the public or the citizenry, but through the tyranny of a few loudmouths on social media and a news media all too eager to take up the PC drumbeat, there is no appreciable difference.
I don't believe I said that. I did say it was equivalent in many ways to the Salem Witch Trials, in the sense of the utter lack of evidence, no indication as to the realiability of the complainants, and most importantly, the mob mentality of it. The "pile on." Honestly, it's like watching chickens in the hen house decide to peck another to death and it's not pretty--in Chickens or people.
Say what you will, the Twitterverse is the modern-day equivalent of the Witch Trials. It's part of Cancel Culture, in which people lose jobs, their livelihoods, possibly their families and so on.
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