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Okay, I think what a lot of people fail to understand is the Freedom of Speech is not actually, "I can say whatever I want and you have to give me money, pay attention to me, and believe whatever I say."
It literally means nobody can send you to jail for having an opinion.
It literally means nobody can send you to jail for having an opinion.
Bloomsbury did well to pull a book after a pretty much unprecedented public outcry.
The book still got commissioned - this means, someone thought it was good, convinced the company to publish it, ran it through legal, sales and marketing and all those people thought: Why Not.
The book still got commissioned - this means, someone thought it was good, convinced the company to publish it, ran it through legal, sales and marketing and all those people thought: Why Not.
It's India's Milo Moment, I suppose -- Simon Schuster had to do something similar in Canada when Milo Yiannopoulos, a notoriously right-wing maniac was pubbed with them.
But why do these horrible, harmful, unhinged books reach these stages at all??
Who says yes?
But why do these horrible, harmful, unhinged books reach these stages at all??
Who says yes?
This is a publishing problem.
Publishing as an industry has a problem, because it is overwhelmingly full of Upper Caste, Upper Class Usually Hindu people.
This is what happens when your organisation hasn't got a single person there who can say, "Hold on, this is insane."
Publishing as an industry has a problem, because it is overwhelmingly full of Upper Caste, Upper Class Usually Hindu people.
This is what happens when your organisation hasn't got a single person there who can say, "Hold on, this is insane."
This doesn't end because Bloomsbury pulled one book. Go thru their archives, pick out the section in nonfic about news and public affairs, and note what happens after 2016.
I'm not saying this to be a Debbie Downer, but just because -- this cannot end here.
I'm not saying this to be a Debbie Downer, but just because -- this cannot end here.
