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Originally Posted by Thasaidon
Thank you for that information. That changes my view of the situation.
I was not aware of this and perhaps I am a little too sensitive about the "cancel culture" that is so prevalent at the moment.
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I too am sensitive about the cancel culture, especially initiated on Twitter, and am hesitant to jump on the banning bandwagon in general with this. Reminds me of bored people doing modern day witch hunts in SOME situations.
However, sometimes atrocious things come to light that just taint your image of the author to a destroying degree. MZB I never read, and don't plan to now, just about of what I now know and find it uncomfortable. Also not my genre.
The JK Rowling stuff going on does not make me want to "cancel" the author. I will not agree with every author politically, religiously, or socially. We are all different with our views so I do not "cancel" over this. Stephen King is very liberal, as an example, and I don't agree with everything he and his son Joe Hill tweet either, but I still like them as people as authors. I'm not threatened by different views and try to learn from them. An exception is hate filled messages or purposeful attacks/damage, which I don't think JKR is doing, despite a lot of Twitter disagreeing with me.
I cannot recall the name, but I remember years ago when it came out a published children's author was a pediophile imprisoned. I get not wanting to buy more children's books for this author and give him money for writing children's books considering he was a repeat offending of molesting children. It's just wrong on multiple levels. So, I get some of this.
I do think the cancel culture can go too far in other directions. When the Netflix show came out on the prosecutor for the show, When They See Us, the prosecutor, police, and several people associated with the case said the show was exaggerated and downright false in many aspects. I'm very against injustice and find false imprisonment one of the worst things imaginable. I think everyone this happens to should receive buckets of money to at least help, although it couldn't come close to making up for missing out on their life. That said, I also know that in a profession mistakes may be made, the show is likely not fully accurate, there are things the DA and police cannot tell us to explain decisions due to legal issues tying their hands, and I was against destroying the former chief of sexual crimes unit's current career of being a writer and wanting her removal from charity boards. It'd be different if she were still in the legal system and found to be making mistakes (with proof), then I can get her removed from that position, but she was retired from that position for quite awhile and her writing had nothing to do with making money off any former cases, whether errors were made or not in that career field.
There have been others I've felt bad for as well, especially when it was a bad day or small mistake. It really differs based on the crimes and intent of the author.