{"id":395137,"date":"2019-02-04T17:27:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T16:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-return-of-book-burning-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2019-02-04T17:27:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T16:27:07","slug":"the-return-of-book-burning-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-return-of-book-burning-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"The Return of Book-Burning &#8211; LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-702394\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- amazon_content\/96a293b4f90b755c93eec20a36206247 Cache -->\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"blog-subtitle\">The Twittermob\u2019s fury with un-woke novels has sinister echoes of the past.<\/h3>\n<div class=\"clearfix post-info\">\n<p class=\"attribution\">By Tim Dawson <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiked-online.com\">Spiked Online<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"date\">February 4, 2019<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"blog-content clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Non-Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Book Community has jumped the shark. Who are the \u2018Book Community\u2019? Well, they\u2019re the nebulous group of super-woke flakes who bullied young-adult (YA) fantasy author\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ameliewenzhao\/status\/1090706315440242688\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amelie Wen Zhao<\/a>\u00a0into pulling the publication of her debut novel,\u00a0<em>Blood Heir<\/em>. While it wasn\u2019t slated for release until June, some review copies had been sent out. Apparently the book has already shaken some readers \u2013 and some people who obviously haven\u2019t read it \u2013 to the core. Zhao\u2019s depiction of slavery in one scene has been deemed problematic. Reverse racism, lack of genderqueer representation, and a central antagonist with a limp are some of the other criticisms levelled against it, and Twitter is fuming. Zhao has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ameliewenzhao\/status\/1090706315440242688\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">issued an apology<\/a>\u00a0and agreed with her publishers to cancel publication.<\/p>\n<p>The novel is probably terrible. I\u2019m not particularly into sword and sorcery stuff \u2013 though the fact that it has upset so many flakes has naturally piqued my interest. But you don\u2019t need to like, or even read, a book to defend its right to be published. Of course, Amelie Wen Zhao halted publication herself. You could argue that she has \u2018listened to feedback\u2019 and acted accordingly. But the line between listening to feedback and being bullied by very angry zealots is a thin one, and this incident seems to have crossed it. Zhao relies on these people for her income and is scared. That\u2019s understandable. And really, really bad.<\/p>\n<p>Our cultural landscape is increasingly controlled by the permanently outraged. Books \u2013 even trashy fantasy novels \u2013 are a key component of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2019\/02\/no_author\/the-return-of-book-burning\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Twittermob\u2019s fury with un-woke novels has sinister echoes of the past. By Tim Dawson Spiked Online February 4, 2019 The Book Community has jumped the shark. Who are the \u2018Book Community\u2019? Well, they\u2019re the nebulous group of super-woke flakes who bullied young-adult (YA) fantasy author\u00a0Amelie Wen Zhao\u00a0into pulling the publication of her debut novel,\u00a0Blood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-395137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}