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Old 07-10-2020, 12:35 PM   #34
haertig
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I don't choose what to read based on what someone else tells me I should or should not read. I do ask for suggestions of good books, but I'm not looking for suggestions based on ideology, politics, agendas, wokeness, or anything like that. I may read a book that is offensive to someone, but not to me. And I may set aside a book that is offensive to me, but not to someone else.

The problem with cancel culture is that it creeps. There was just an article in todays newspaper about someone of a certain ethnic group having the audacity to actually speak to a different person not of that ethnic group. There were calls to boycott his companys products because of that conversation. I can't go into more detail than that, because someone here would probably be offended if I mentioned a name, since one of the parties is indeed a well known politician, and this post would be deleted for anti-wokeness or some other such silly thing. But the whole affair was cancel culture run amok, as it is obviously doing these days.

So while someone may yell in your face today, "How could you possibly read a book written by a pedophile?!", in not too long that will have crept to "How could you possibly read a book written by someone who spoke to another who had a different political view?" I don't believe in cancel culture for books. Wokeness had its beginnings in being better informed and less ignorant. But then it morphed. And then it morphed again into cancel culture. Now, being demonstrably woke is the butt of many jokes (not from the woke themselves, of course). Wokeness crept and morphed from something good to something bad. When it gets to the point of shaming you based on what books you choose to read, that's bad.
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