Bravo! "The elite literati claims this month to “stand with Salman,” but it feels forced after years of their craven surrender to activist extortion in academe and publishing, to demands that creative writers tailor their work to imagined or artificially inflamed audience sensitivities or to Procrustean ideas of cultural or racial identity dreamed up by professors steeped in Marxist and fascist theorizing and then spread on social media by half-literate adolescents." That is a pearl.
Bravo! "The elite literati claims this month to “stand with Salman,” but it feels forced after years of their craven surrender to activist extortion in academe and publishing, to demands that creative writers tailor their work to imagined or artificially inflamed audience sensitivities or to Procrustean ideas of cultural or racial identity dreamed up by professors steeped in Marxist and fascist theorizing and then spread on social media by half-literate adolescents." That is a pearl.
A wonderful appreciation and assessment. Stalwart in both moral and aesthetic judgment.
Thank you!