![]() Sometimes, one wonders why certain figures have yet to be denounced. ![]() In other cases, as in the denunciation of David Starkey, a foolish and ill-considered statement has cost someone their livelihood, career and reputation. In the case of JK Rowling, the best-selling author living today, it looks as if the forces of cancellation may have met their match as she calmly doubles and trebles down on her original statements, and achieves widespread support, as well as hysterical criticism. Their crimes are the usual: a refusal to accept the doctrine foisted upon them by society, an out-of-place remark or statement that was widely pronounced beyond the pale or simply representing too stale and archaic a form of privilege. There seems to be a never-ending procession of writers and literary figures, living, dead and wishing that they were dead, who are being told that they have been cancelled by a braying and self-satisfied mob. ![]()
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