The woke mob at Simon & Schuster
A new martyr for free speech! Not really martyr, since he’s not dead, but you know. Martyrish.
He wasn’t really representing his constituents by pretending to believe Trump’s lies about the election; he wasn’t leading a debate about voter integrity, because that’s not what the pretend debate was about; it does look like sedition to try to overturn an election by lying about voter fraud; big publishing companies are not “the Left.”
And, crucial point, it’s not “canceling everything we don’t approve of” to resist efforts to steal an election.
Sounds very Gamergate – “just about integrity in gaming journalism” or some words to that effect. Everyone opposed to the coup was working for voter integrity.
As a Simon (Carly) would say “He’s so vain, he probably thinks this coup is about him” And yes, she is related to Simon & Schuster.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carly_Simon#Early_life
Clearly the first sentence (“This could not be more Orwellian”) refers to all the subsequent sentences.
The piece is beautifully written aside from the minor error of ending that first sentence with a period rather than a colon.
@Skeletor – very apt
An entertaining thread about a publisher’s hell for Hawley.
https://twitter.com/peterwsinger/status/1347355483582181378
KB Player, as a writer, I have to say ouch. That’s exactly how my major professor did with my thesis. She sent corrections on one or two pages at a time, and I think, okay, that wasn’t so bad. But I must have gone through more than 20 revisions because of that sort of thing. So I can appreciate the hell that would be. And in my fiction? Actually, I’m probably the biggest hell for me in terms of notes, but at least those are mine.
Oh, great! Hawley providing ‘evidence’ for the next instalment of PZ’s regular bouts of there is no cancel culture, it’s just privileged right-wingers being told ‘no’ for once, while ignoring the real examples of those being shouted down and shut down for holding the wrong ideas.
@iknlast – Death by a thousand cuts – and amendments – and re-writes – and re-casts – and re-indexing – and footnoting…