Post by Amadan on Aug 8, 2017 9:00:57 GMT -5
For those of us still interested in writing 
The Toxic Drama on YA Twitter
I fnd it ironic that on my FB feed, some of the same friends celebrating James Damore's firing at Google are saying "Wow, these YA authors are mean and crazy!"
It's really the same phenomenon, though - a self-appointed cabal of SJ advocates has become powerful enough to go after anyone suspected of badthink, to the point that now, one book blogger who read a passage about a racist character saying racist things has started a crusade against a book that appears to actually be an anti-racist story, with the entire YA twitterverse screaming not just at the author and publisher, demanding the book be pulled before it "hurts teens," but even blasting anyone who posts a review or even admits to reading the book.
It's easy to laugh this off because it's mostly a bunch of teenage girls flipping out over a YA fantasy novel, but it is very easy to see them going from Twitter dogpiles to knitting at the guillotines. This is what our social media sphere looks like today - how much would it take to tilt it towards real-world violence?
The Toxic Drama on YA Twitter
I fnd it ironic that on my FB feed, some of the same friends celebrating James Damore's firing at Google are saying "Wow, these YA authors are mean and crazy!"
It's really the same phenomenon, though - a self-appointed cabal of SJ advocates has become powerful enough to go after anyone suspected of badthink, to the point that now, one book blogger who read a passage about a racist character saying racist things has started a crusade against a book that appears to actually be an anti-racist story, with the entire YA twitterverse screaming not just at the author and publisher, demanding the book be pulled before it "hurts teens," but even blasting anyone who posts a review or even admits to reading the book.
It's easy to laugh this off because it's mostly a bunch of teenage girls flipping out over a YA fantasy novel, but it is very easy to see them going from Twitter dogpiles to knitting at the guillotines. This is what our social media sphere looks like today - how much would it take to tilt it towards real-world violence?
