Re:Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring ...
by dragonwriter on Monday March 01, 2021 @03:43PM
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> This is just an awful argument. It's basically "things used to be worse, so you shouldn't say it's still bad".
No, the argument is “things used to be more extreme in this precise area, so the argument that the present situation is a new and unique historical threat is false”.
No, the argument is “things used to be more extreme in this precise area, so the argument that the present situation is a new and unique historical threat is false”.