On letting the radicals control speech
August 21, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Once we start letting the fear of offending some group of people control what books are published, where does it stop? Books are about ideas. I might viscerally hate the ideas in a book, but I don’t think my hatred of those ideas should prevent the book from being published or sold. Publishers should have the courage to market books wherever they think they might sell.
Trying to avoid offending people is a race to the bottom leading to pablum and mediocrity.
Link to B92 article ganked from Jamie Larue’s wonderful blog.
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