PRE-BANNING terrifying new trend?

You've got to be one hard son-of-a-bitch and fight these fucking fools to the end. It's the only way.

NEVER apologize. That was her first mistake.

Authors who are naïve to the current political landscape and these bullying tactics will be caught completely off guard and immediately bow down and kiss the earth their aggressors walk on. The shock will be so sudden and significant that they'll think they themselves are in the wrong, and not the political activists.

The same thing is happening in the anime industry with shows like Goblin Slayer and Rise of the Shield Hero, the last of which radical feminists were in an uproar over because the main character is the victim of a false rape accusation, something that does not compute in the delusional world they inhabit.

This is happening in every corner of the entertainment industry. And you're right. It's scary. But most people on here have laughed at me, been actively in support of it, or are apathetic. Good on you for caring.

It's sad that something as potentially wonderful as social justice has been turned into something so vindictive and spiteful that people will aggressively seek the ruin of others for the most innocent of reasons. Never apologize to people who overreact; they won't forgive you anyway, so they don't deserve the effort.

There's always someone who has said what I want to say better than I can do it myself. Like this:

“It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what."

[I saw hate in a graveyard -- Stephen Fry, The Guardian, 5 June 2005]”
― Stephen Fry

I should also add that this is hardly a new phenomenon. I have before me a book entitled Law in Action, An Anthology of the Law in Literature, published in 1947. It includes a copy of the federal court decision, in 1933, ruling that James Joyce's Ulysses should be allowed to be distributed in the United States, dismissing an action banning it brought by the U.S. government as obscene.

^That was a wise decision. Good book? (Law in Action, I mean)

Not especially. I "inherited" it when the federal judge I worked for (a different one) died and his family told me to take any books I wanted from his library. It's mostly of interest to legal scholars and the like, though some things are interesting and worth reading. Others are written in ye olde language and more trouble to read than they seem to be worth.

Yes, there’s a lot of censorship these days against people who offend our woke overlords. I’m a poet (Joshua C. Frank, published mainly at the Society of Classical Poets website), and few places will even consider my poetry (even if it isn’t controversial) because of the published work of mine that they’ve already seen. But, still, I write, because the truth needs to get out there.