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The writer Kazuo Ishiguro's warned that there's a climate of fear caused by the left-wing cancel culture advocates going on:

Nobel Prize winner Sir Kazuo Ishiguro is warning that a “climate of fear” is forcing many young authors to self-censor their work, out of fear of being canceled.

Ishiguro, who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 2017, says that authors may be concerned that an "anonymous lynch mob will turn up online and make their lives a misery." Speaking to the BBC, Ishiguro said that he fears for the younger generation of writers.

The renowned author expressed his concern that less-established writers are self-censoring by avoiding writing about certain topics or viewpoints, or even including characters outside of their immediate experiences in their work.

In recent years, several young adult fiction authors have been forced to cancel their forthcoming books after being attacked on social media for including characters who did not share the author’s own lived experiences. In 2019, author Amélie Wen Zhao canceled her book Blood Heir after she was criticized for the book’s depiction of slavery. The book was a retelling of the Anastasia story involving “a princess hiding a dark secret and the conman she must trust to clear her name for her father’s murder.” Critics who got their hands on the book accused the author of “anti-Blackness” after the death of a particular black character in the book.

Zhao reversed course shortly after, and had her book released. But the most important point that has to be made is that the main authors self-censoring appear to be leftists, which points to a serious problem: that's practically the audience they're seeking and relying upon almost entirely, and has got to be the biggest problem with their whole approach. They don't want avoid partisan crowds that could have nothing but contempt for them no matter what they write, and there's even would-be rival authors in the business who've been involved in the incitement. And the "young adult" segment is where the most awful cases have taken place. Maybe the best thing to do is avoid social media altogether, and certainly on Twitter, because it's such a toxic environment, much like the young adult genre itself. If you're going to write a book, don't make it part of that genre or marketing. Make it generally part of the adventure genre, for heaven's sake. And don't waste time with the leftist crowd, if they're the ones causing all the trouble.

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