‘Assault on inalienable human rights’: Literary professionals demand publisher cancel Amy Coney Barr

[libertybele]

‘Assault on inalienable human rights’: Literary professionals demand publisher cancel Amy Coney Barrett’s book while simultaneously declaring they ‘care deeply about freedom of speech’

Over 500 individuals in the literary community signed an open letter this month calling for Penguin Random House to cancel Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s new book.

Signatories included “Rick and Morty” writer Erica Rosbe and employees of Barnes & Noble, Random House, and HarperCollins. Various publishers, members of the press, and freelance writers also signed the letter.

The signatories noted that they “care deeply about freedom of speech,” but they also believe that publishers should “uphold their dedication to freedom of speech with a duty of care.”

The letter started with a quote from a TED Talk by David Puttnam, a film producer and environmentalist, declaring that there should be a “balance” between freedom of speech and “wider moral and social responsibilities.”

The signatories claimed that publishing Barrett’s book would be an attack on “international human rights.” Therefore, they argued, canceling the deal would not be an act of censorship............

https://www.theblaze.com/news/literary-professionals-demand-cancellation-amy-coney-barrett-book

[Hoodat]

When Conservatives don't like your book, they don't buy your book.  When leftists don't like your book, they try to block everyone from owning your book.

[Bigun]

"I may never agree with a thing you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it!"

[GtHawk]

Socialists say, "NO FIRST AMENDMENT FOR YOU SUPREME COURT JUSTICE!" I bet they don't think they are fascists either.

Here is a group phot of some of those literary 'professionals'

[roamer_1]

INALIENABLE rights are rights that everyone - EVERY HUMAN possesses.

Which inalienable rights  are they speaking of?

[mountaineer]

Amy Coney Barrett Line In The Sand
Hundreds of illiberal left-wing literati demand Penguin Random House deplatform pro-life Supreme Court justice
Rod Dreher
Oct 29, 2022 6:53 AM

This story involves my publisher, Sentinel:

    Hundreds of Penguin Random House staffers and other literary professionals are calling on the publishing company to cut ties with Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett and to cancel her upcoming book.

The publishing house came under fire Friday after an open letter bearing 520 signatures was made public. In it, the dissenters call for a better balance of freedom of speech and duty of care, citing Penguin’s $2 million book deal with Coney Barrett as “a case where a corporation has privately funded the destruction of human rights with obscene profits.”

... Oh, bullshit. Of course they're calling for censorship! This is what the Left does! They do not believe that a female Supreme Court justice who believes in the sanctity of unborn human life (as do tens of millions of Americans) should have a platform. They denounce their own employer, in public, in an effort to censor Justice Barrett.

I haven't spoken to anyone at Sentinel about this controversy, but I have every faith that PRH will stand behind Sentinel in this controversy. It would be right of them to issue a strong statement of support on Monday, not only for Sentinel, but for the purpose of publishing books in a liberal democracy. These censorious leftists who have marched through the institutions are a threat to free expression, and to the free exchange of ideas. They don't simply oppose what Justice Barrett stands for; they believe she should not have the opportunity to make her case in the public square.

This is a moral betrayal of publishing, carried out by an unaccountable internal elite who wish to set the boundaries on discourse to exclude even mainstream conservative ideals and beliefs. ...

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