Cancel culture backfires on kneeler publisher: after canceling a poetry author over Twitter allegations, they had to remove their tweet and private their Twitter account. - Kotaku In Action 2

Cancel culture backfires on kneeler publisher: after canceling a poetry author over Twitter allegations, they had to remove their tweet and private their Twitter account. (archive.is)

posted 4 years ago by AntonioOfVenice 4 years ago by AntonioOfVenice +21 / -1

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– coke501 6 points 4 years ago +6 / -0

thanking all my teachers in my mfa thesis EXCEPT dean young, who refused to meet with me on campus yet hung out and drank with my male classmates

Took the Pence-rule to heart I see. Good man.

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– Kalamander85 3 points 4 years ago +3 / -0

Good idea in this day and age

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– AntonioOfVenice [S] 5 points 4 years ago +5 / -0

Glenn Greenwald:

Read this thread on how a book publisher, @brokensleep , announced on Twitter it has canceled the contract of poet Dean Young based on a completly unverified tweet-thread of banal complaints against him from a grad student. No confirmation, due process, nothing. Just destruction:

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1293519242294448129

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