A lot of injustice occurs below Franzen's threshold for caring:
“There’s a chilling of nuanced discourse…but I also think, until people start being sent off to Lubyanka for having said the wrong thing to the wrong person, the risk is probably overblown”
lithub.com/why-jonathan-f…
“There’s a chilling of nuanced discourse…but I also think, until people start being sent off to Lubyanka for having said the wrong thing to the wrong person, the risk is probably overblown”
lithub.com/why-jonathan-f…
He seems to overlook the fact that he is one of the very few writers big enough to ride out the type of mobbing and slander he himself has faced. He'd have been cancelled several times if he weren’t in a particularly privileged position.
Unlike Malcolm Gladwell or the other big names who signed the letter, it's pretty disappointing someone of his stature and talent doesn't want to think harder now about this issue or from a different vantage point.
It seems like there's a growing elite fatigue in being bothered about this stuff. A desire not to think about it anymore (and then it will go away?) until it *really* gets out of control. But that would be a rather late point at which to begin drafting the open letters, etc.
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