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[–]MarkTwainiac 24 insightful - 3 fun24 insightful - 2 fun25 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

I saw some tweets saying no one who signed the letter has ever been subject to censorship or silencing themselves in recent or living memory. Which ignores that Publisher's Weekly has reported that many independent and "feminist" bookstores in the US are now refusing to carry JKRowling's books, and that another one of the signatories is Salman Rushdie.

[–]kuronekochan 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Also ignores the fact that only powerful people can sign this letter, and many artists, writers, and academics who are less well-situated would be afraid to. Those who are proactively suppressing their point of view for fear of reprisal are invisible. Self-censorship is still censorship, when it is coerced.