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Cancel “Cancel Culture”


Last week Simon and Schuster reneged on a book deal with Josh Hawley, because they apparently did not like the political views of the Senator from Missouri.

To me this was a blatant example of the political correctness of Cancel Culture, and I did not agree with this outrageous decision by Simon and Schuster, who apparently doesn’t really care what 74 million Americans think.

The following is from a Wall Street Journal article by Thomas Spence (president and publisher of Regnery Publishers):

“Some 250 self-described “publishing professionals”—mostly junior employees of major houses—have issued a statement titled “No Book Deals for Traitors,” a category in which they include any “participant” in the Trump administration.

“Readiness to silence someone because of who he is or whom he associates with is often called the “cancel culture,” but I prefer an older term—blacklisting—whose historical associations expose the ugliness of what is going on. Not so long ago, publishing professionals would have been horrified to be accused of it. Today they compete to see who can proclaim his blacklist with the fiercest invective.

“The founder of my publishing house, Henry Regnery, proudly called himself a “dissident publisher.” The conservative books to which he devoted his fortune and career were no more in favor in 1951, when he published William F. Buckley’s “God and Man at Yale,” than they have been during my own 25 years in this business. But blacklisting then, though real, was discreet. Everyone knew it was un-American. No one was proud of it.

“We’re proud to publish Mr. Hawley’s book, which his original publisher has made more important than ever. We don’t have to agree with everything—or anything—Mr. Hawley does. We ask only if his book is well-crafted and has something true and worthwhile to say. The answer is yes.”

My response to Mr. Spence:

Please put me on the list to purchase Josh Hawley’s book, “The Tyranny of Big Tech,” and kudos to you and Regnery Publishers.👏🏻👏🏻

My response to Simon and Schuster . . .👎🏻👎🏻 ( This was the only finger signal I could find!)

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