“But whatever I agree with or don’t in Perez’s discourse, I take pleasure in hashing it out. We find no such pleasure in the ‘cancel’ mentality, the all-the-editors-resign and please-pull-my-story mentality, which, to be frank, merits only contempt from anyone who ever wanted to live in a free or pluralist society. A literary journal in the internet age is not a workplace and should not be governed by workplace rules. A different opinion than your own, even pungently expressed, doesn’t endanger you. And if official literary institutions continue operating this way, they only hasten their probably inevitable irrelevance.”
“But whatever I agree with or don’t in Perez’s discourse, I take pleasure in hashing it out. We find no such pleasure in the ‘cancel’ mentality, the all-the-editors-resign and please-pull-my-story mentality, which, to be frank, merits only contempt from anyone who ever wanted to live in a free or pluralist society. A literary journal in the internet age is not a workplace and should not be governed by workplace rules. A different opinion than your own, even pungently expressed, doesn’t endanger you. And if official literary institutions continue operating this way, they only hasten their probably inevitable irrelevance.”
Word.