Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring out of 'fear'

Re:Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring ... by whimsicalism on Monday March 01, 2021 @02:03PM (#26306710)

I erroneously thought the critic in the article was Japanese, although the "sir" should have been an obvious giveaway.

In the states, just off the top of my head: the McCarthy era, the reaction to the 1968 Olympic raised fist incident

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Re:Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring ... by jimbokun on Monday March 01, 2021 @05:58PM (#26309670)

> the McCarthy era, the reaction to the 1968 Olympic raised fist incident

Aren't those examples of the kinds of things we want to stop doing?

So you are agreeing Cancel Culture is bad and we should find better ways to peacefully disagree with each other?

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Re:Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring ... by lainga on Monday March 01, 2021 @02:36PM (#26307231)

I guessed as much :)

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