No appeasement

 I'm pleased that Harpers has published Maggie Tokuda-Hall's account of Scholastic attempting to bowdlerize her book Love in the Library:

There is no appeasing this vocal minority, nor should there be an attempt to do so. This is an existential threat to all of literature, one the publishing industry should be combating, not cowering before. If we cannot depend on the publishers of these stories to defend the truth, if they cave to the political pressure manufactured by the few to the detriment of all, then we are truly lost.

 Not only true of book publishing.