A few days ago, 216 employees of Simon and Schuster, along with several thousand people from outside the trade publishing house, sent a petition to top executives of the company demanding that they stop publishing anyone who had anything to do with the Trump administration.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the letter insists that Simon and Schuster not treat "The Trump administration as a 'normal' chapter in American history."
It's useless to express outrage at the Simon and Schuster petition, yet another woke attempt to stifle expression in the form of someone's work; futile to point out, for the umpteenth time, the illiberal peril of trying to silence speech you don't agree with.
Perhaps scrutinizing the notion of the Trump administration as an all-purpose exception would be more useful than trying to construct a rational response to the Simon and Schuster petitioners' Thermidorian demands.
No doubt their intellectual unpreparedness explains why the liberal commentating class at first desperately cast about for an historical analogy to Trump.
Even as Trump went about the normal business of governing, he was, by means of some pathological character traits that manifested themselves in his rhetoric, legitimizing the abnormal response of the liberal establishment.
No wonder the Simon and Schuster petitioners put the word "Normal" in inverted commas.
Friday, April 30, 2021
Simon and Schuster Petition's Woke Contradictions
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