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Originally Posted by haertig
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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I agree with you. Some cases seem to me people getting bored and wanting to start up drama, or the bloodlust our society has always had transforming itself in a new way. As an example with your last line, some of the book friends I followed on Twitter were putting out calls that they were surprised some of their friends/followers were still following certain people, and that they would start blocking them and removing them from their lists. I'm like fine, I've moved past Junior High School. I saw a few other people state the same, they're like I'm in my 40's and have moved past others telling me who I can follow and be friends with.