What we’re seeing happen everywhere, at warp speed, is not merely a push for equity but a push for dominance, punishment, and more than that, seizure. New rules being written and re-written on the spot. Without wading into the TERF debate, look at the convo around JK Rowling 1/
A recent argument from the left: stories belong to the people and cultures who create them and shouldn't be appropriated.
Now from the left: JK Rowling, "Give the Harry Potter books over to those to whom they have meant, and continue to mean, so much" /2
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
Now from the left: JK Rowling, "Give the Harry Potter books over to those to whom they have meant, and continue to mean, so much" /2
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
The takeover’s coming not just for institutions but for your own body of work and your very ideas. You will get onboard or you will be asked, with increasing authority and decreasing patience, to relinquish your own work for the common good. I’m astonished at the pace of this. 3/
@jk_rowling is probably big enough not to be able to be forced to cave, but man oh man, I fear for the rest of us.
