I think this is a significant missed opportunity. With 153 signatories, Harpers could have led the start of the uncancelled conversation. How do people that have had dire career consequences become uncancelled. It's a conversation that we will need to have as there's a lot of people that have had Bad Ideas that should lose their jobs. However, should they before forever relegated to a jobless future? No, I think even the person with some of the worst ideas might be salvageable in some regard in the future.
Of course, this would have been greeted with its own ridicule because some of the people on the list have recently been cancelled. It may have been viewed as being self serving and it would be to some extent. I think that's OK, because we could equally say "Yes, that person was cancelled should be cancelled and if they did some of those things, maybe I'd consider listening to them again."
Obviously, some people may never allow a given person back into their writers of trust. That's fine. J.K. Rowling probably will never be trusted by the Trans community again - rightly so. However, there could be some action that she takes that may make that would make her palatable to other readers.
We will need to have this conversation at some point.
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Missed Opportunity
I think this is a significant missed opportunity. With 153 signatories, Harpers could have led the start of the uncancelled conversation. How do people that have had dire career consequences become uncancelled. It's a conversation that we will need to have as there's a lot of people that have had Bad Ideas that should lose their jobs. However, should they before forever relegated to a jobless future? No, I think even the person with some of the worst ideas might be salvageable in some regard in the future.
Of course, this would have been greeted with its own ridicule because some of the people on the list have recently been cancelled. It may have been viewed as being self serving and it would be to some extent. I think that's OK, because we could equally say "Yes, that person was cancelled should be cancelled and if they did some of those things, maybe I'd consider listening to them again."
Obviously, some people may never allow a given person back into their writers of trust. That's fine. J.K. Rowling probably will never be trusted by the Trans community again - rightly so. However, there could be some action that she takes that may make that would make her palatable to other readers.
We will need to have this conversation at some point.
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