Posted on 10/28/2022 8:41:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Even as they claim to oppose censorship, a group of almost 500 people (as of the moment) from the literary world — best-selling authors, publishing industry employees, and others — have signed on to a call for Penguin Random House to drop a forthcoming book by Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Her crime? Signing on to the majority opinion in the Dobbs case, overturning Roe v. Wade, and returning abortion to the states.
You can read the letter and the complete list of signatories, posted to Google Documents, here. It begins:
"Now there will be those who will argue that this could all too easily drift into a form of censorship, albeit self-censorship, but I don't buy that argument. It has to be possible to balance freedom of expression with wider moral and social responsibilities."
— David Puttnam, "Does the media have a duty of care?" (TED Talk)
As members of the writing, publishing, and broader literary community of the United States, we care deeply about freedom of speech. We also believe it is imperative that publishers uphold their dedication to freedom of speech with a duty of care.
We recognize that harm is done to a democracy not only in the form of censorship, but also in the form of assault on inalienable human rights. As such, we are calling on Penguin Random House to recognize its own history and corporate responsibility commitments by reevaluating its decision to move forward with publishing Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett's forthcoming book.
Does none of these people, presumably skilled in the use of the English language, see the contradiction here? They hate censorship, but they want Justice Barrett's book suppressed, dropped by one of the biggest publishers in the country.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
A quick look at the payoff scheme used by the globalist elite, for writings they approve paid through these same publishing shills, tells me all I need to know about this attack on Justice Barrett.
Unbelievable. These people need to lose their positions in the industry if they don’t understand what freedom of speech is all about.
Interesting that someone such as Amy Coney Barrett is just too liberal for you. I wish we had the ability to vote on this site, because I just wonder how many other freepers feel the same way
So....who are the Book Burners again? I get confused.
FWIW, I looked through the list of authors who signed the letter. Every one I checked wrote romance novels.
Wouldn’t exactly call Jack Reacher novels romances, but they are now off my reading list!
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Once again the decision is being framed as a ban on the rights of women (to kill a baby) when in reality the “right” has simply been returned to where its constitutionally supposed to be.....to determine whether its legal or not legal, the state.
Yeah, I didn’t see Lee Child on there. I just made a quick and dirty, random check of the authors.
I’ve already read all the Jack Reacher books, so no problem for me.
You say it's a human right to deprive the most innocent and defenseless of their most basic? Sorry, Lee. No longer a fan.
“We recognize that harm is done to a democracy not only in the form of censorship, but also in the form of assault on inalienable human rights”
Where oh where in tbe Declaration of Indpendence or the Constitution was abortion delcared an “inalienable human right? No where.
The signers of the letter are intellectually dishonest as to what is univerally accdepted as “human right”. Some are well konwn, and some are not in our Constitutions but merely beieved ought to be. The signers do not want freedom of speech. They want debate tp be silenced if one side of a debate disagrees with them. They pretend to speak for society, but that is only due to the intellectual bubble they reside in. They truly only do and only can speak for themselves. That’s something they think should be denied to a sitting Supreme Court Justice.
From the above link:
The list of dissenters who signed the letter include "Rick and Morty" writer Erica Rosbe, employees of Random House, employees of HarperCollins, Barnes and Nobles employees and various other publishers, authors and members of the press.
Well, Erica, that just makes me more glad that I haven't hooked the TV back up. And just where do people get off calling Barnes and Noble employees literary figures?
Funny how all these employees of publishers and bookstores wish to engage in a little figurative book burning of their own. Yes, I know they can cleverly avoid the term censorship since they're not asking the government to stop Justice Barrett, but it's censorship, all the same.
Well, I guess I know where all those fired Twit-Er employees are going to go. These places will be a natural home for their miserable selves.
PING!
It’s a Google Doc. You got a bogus Google Account I can use to sign it, so I can proudly put Jai V. Turkey down?
Because it is not about the book. Someone (in this case Barrett) with whom they disagree, must be punished by isolation, censorship or some other action. That’s the way the Left works and, as in this case, they always wrap it around some “right” that is being “abused’. And whenever possible they will drag in some international “standard” or organization (U.N.) which they routinely ignore when those standards and organizations don’t agree with their Leftist position. And finally, their hypocracy is always blatantly obvious to any thinking person, as in this case where human rights only means the rights of the woman, with the child having no human right.
Not surprised at the length of this list. When I was in book publishing, almost everyone was left-wing—until the right-wing branch departments started up to do conservative books.
There was one guy in Production who was a Republican, and a young woman in Design who had camouflage booties on her cubicle divider for all to see. That was it on a huge floor.
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