Mick Hartley

The American Booksellers Association is grovelling:

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— American Booksellers Association (@ABAbook) July 14, 2021

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What appalling book are they referring to? Mein Kampf? One of the Marquis de Sade's more explicit works?

Of course not. There's only one kind of book that could provoke such a reaction nowadays, and it's certainly not a fascist rant, or explicit violent pornography – they'd probably be falling over themselves proclaiming the glories of a free press, and the importance of not censoring such works. The only book that could provoke such cringing, humiliating, pathetic abasement is one that goes against the ruling trans ideology, and thereby offends those who must under no circumstances be offended. Yes, it's Abigail Shrier's excellent and important Irreversible Damage: Teenage Girls and the Transgender Craze.

If there were a Hall of Fame for capitulations to Woke bullies, the American Booksellers Association is hereby inducted.

The "serious, violent incident" they perpetrated? Including my book in a large box of new book samples sent out to independent booksellers. https://t.co/SgnKvPy4AU

— Abigail Shrier (@AbigailShrier) July 15, 2021

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Given that "apologies are not enough", I wonder what type of concrete steps they'll be taking to address the harm they caused? Having already mentioned the Marquis de Sade, it's worth pointing out that he had some very interesting ideas on punishment which tie in nicely with themes of abasement.

Meanwhile they're preparing for Banned Books Week, under the slogan, "Censorship Divides Us, Books Unite Us". Ironic, I think, in the circumstances.