for people that hate the theater kids, antis would fit right in with their intense theatrics
Reminder that neil gaiman once told a story about how his aunt risked her life for a book, during a time and place where getting caught reading would have gotten her and her family killed.
Yeah, I think maybe there’s possibly a reason why the guy is so staunchly anti-censorship, even of fiction that is disgusting to you personally. And no by the way, lolicon is not connected to real predators. It’s actually more correlated to victims of real child exploitation, which really puts this unhinged rant at the end into perspective, doesn’t it?
If antis put half their energy into the right place, we could have an entire group of Ashton Kutchers saving thousands of real people from human trafficking!! Doesn’t that sound like a fucking utopia?? Instead we have them threatening an established fiction author because he doesn’t want fiction banned due to personal distaste. Ugh.
Anyway, go support neil. His sense of humor created this website in the first place, and he’s good at writing fiction too. 👍
I went back to find the quote, and I misremembered, it was his cousin not his aunt, but it’s on the importance of storytelling;
“My cousin Helen, who is in her 90s now, was in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. She and a bunch of the girls in the ghetto had to do sewing each day. And if you were found with a book, it was an automatic death penalty. She had gotten hold of a copy of ‘Gone With the Wind’, and she would take three or four hours out of her sleeping time each night to read. And then, during the hour or so when they were sewing the next day, she would tell them all the story. These girls were risking certain death for a story. And when she told me that story herself, it actually made what I do feel more important. Because giving people stories is not a luxury. It’s actually one of the things that you live and die for.”
Stories, including the ones you don’t like, have their place. You cannot ban media on the basis of offense. We’ve all seen where that leads. Neil has seen where that leads.
We’re not eager to see a repeat, thanks.
People arguing for fascististic censorship don’t get to call themselves antifa. What the fuck.
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