It’s not outrageous and I’m not offended. It’s pure stupid and it’s ridiculous and helps nobody and protects nobody from any real harm or even pretend racism. It’s just religious dogma and genuflecting.
"Pilkey was forced to issue an apology for his 2010 book 'The Adventures of Ook and Gluk,' over “harmful racial stereotypes” about Asians, who are the latest rock-stars of the race identity political movement targeting white people."
I'm unclear precisely who I'm supposed to be angry at. You didn't specify WHO forced Pilkey to apologize. Was it his wife (if he has one)? A child reading his book? His publisher? An irate parent? The NEA? Someone else?
It's kind of hard to do anything about the nebulous "woke scolds" as long as they are this under-specified, fog-like entity, who are so diffuse to be unable to earn a place as the subject of a sentence, instead being forced to hide out in the dark recesses of the passive voice.
Also, speaking as a white man armed with the greatest apparatus for finding and consuming culture in the history of humanity, the only limitation that I'm feeling with respect to my ability to create or consume culture is the limited attention to give to a rapidly-growing menu of choices. If you feel like you're being hemmed into some kind of cultural reservation, that might be a personal problem as opposed to some kind of grand conspiracy on the part of "Woke-O Haram".
It was a single book. Not an entire series. Nobody has said anywhere that I have seen that Pilkey is being cancelled. The published pulled the book because of its' insensitive content. You are choosing not to see the difference and instead make your own sweeping generalizations to push your own narrative.
Is Pilkey in the clear now? I don't think so. He has produced racist material and although that book has been withdrawn, he produced racist material. Good to see the material go, but Pilkey remains problematic.
Who forced him? Was he going to be fired? Have his whole catalog pulled? Was this his decision or his publishers? Because what I read is that this was his decision. And he came to that conclusion not because of some vague "woke-o-harem bullsnot you and the trash Erick Erickson use to avoid looking in the mirror. It was made after he received complaints from asian readers. Do their feelings not matter? Are you the only one who gets to count? You and the other whites.
One book out of dozens. Author made the decision himself. Very little online pressure added to the decision. Funny how nobody is a bigger victim than an old white man.
It’s not outrageous and I’m not offended. It’s pure stupid and it’s ridiculous and helps nobody and protects nobody from any real harm or even pretend racism. It’s just religious dogma and genuflecting.
"Pilkey was forced to issue an apology for his 2010 book 'The Adventures of Ook and Gluk,' over “harmful racial stereotypes” about Asians, who are the latest rock-stars of the race identity political movement targeting white people."
I'm unclear precisely who I'm supposed to be angry at. You didn't specify WHO forced Pilkey to apologize. Was it his wife (if he has one)? A child reading his book? His publisher? An irate parent? The NEA? Someone else?
It's kind of hard to do anything about the nebulous "woke scolds" as long as they are this under-specified, fog-like entity, who are so diffuse to be unable to earn a place as the subject of a sentence, instead being forced to hide out in the dark recesses of the passive voice.
Also, speaking as a white man armed with the greatest apparatus for finding and consuming culture in the history of humanity, the only limitation that I'm feeling with respect to my ability to create or consume culture is the limited attention to give to a rapidly-growing menu of choices. If you feel like you're being hemmed into some kind of cultural reservation, that might be a personal problem as opposed to some kind of grand conspiracy on the part of "Woke-O Haram".
It was a single book. Not an entire series. Nobody has said anywhere that I have seen that Pilkey is being cancelled. The published pulled the book because of its' insensitive content. You are choosing not to see the difference and instead make your own sweeping generalizations to push your own narrative.
Is Pilkey in the clear now? I don't think so. He has produced racist material and although that book has been withdrawn, he produced racist material. Good to see the material go, but Pilkey remains problematic.
Who forced him? Was he going to be fired? Have his whole catalog pulled? Was this his decision or his publishers? Because what I read is that this was his decision. And he came to that conclusion not because of some vague "woke-o-harem bullsnot you and the trash Erick Erickson use to avoid looking in the mirror. It was made after he received complaints from asian readers. Do their feelings not matter? Are you the only one who gets to count? You and the other whites.
One book out of dozens. Author made the decision himself. Very little online pressure added to the decision. Funny how nobody is a bigger victim than an old white man.