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" In other words, she says as little as possible, passing on the easy opportunity to defend her right to free expression and anyone’s right to read or not read
by nathan_compton 3y ago
" In other words, she says as little as possible, passing on the easy opportunity to defend her right to free expression and anyone’s right to read or not read whatever they want, both of which are currently and repeatedly threatened in Russia, Ukraine and the United States."
I'd agree with you except for this sentence, which frames the controversy as about free speech.
- soneca 3y agoI disagree. It just says that the essay author thinks there was an opportunity for the book author to do a real act of activism. Yet, they still chose emptiness. It is just there, in my view, to strengthen the argument that it was not the context that made it empty, it was a choice. It doesn’t frame the controversy as about free speech at all, in my opinion.