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Anthony Horowitz retweeted GC video!

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HelenaRavenclaw · 26/02/2023 05:27

Horowitz is the bestselling author of Alex Rider, Magpie Murders, Hawthorne etc. and has often spoken out against cancel culture. Now he has retweeted a gender critical account's video of a detransitioner (screenshot attached). Wonder if the woke mob are going to come after him now...

Anthony Horowitz retweeted GC video!
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Holdmypint · 26/02/2023 09:29

Excellent. Children's publishing has been very anti GC views (JKR excepted) - good to hear someone of Horowitz's stature getting involved.

WarriorN · 26/02/2023 08:43

Fab.

I think it's also v hard to dismiss the experiences of detransitioners. For many they've been what's made people sit up and query the ideology. It's hard to be slated as a bigot when you point out these issues.

Of course TRAs dismiss them as rare, but that's definitely becoming harder

KatMcBundleFace · 26/02/2023 07:58

Courage calls to courage.

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HelenaRavenclaw · 26/02/2023 07:54

Horowitz has been speaking up a lot about freedom of authors to write whatever they want without fear of censorship, but I don't think he has previously weighed in on the gender debate or clearly endorsed GC views like this though.

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2Rebecca · 26/02/2023 06:45

I think he's another one who's too big to cancel. I'm pleased he has always opposed cancel culture and am amazed so many in the publishing world went along with the whole fiction genre destroying " you can only write about people who look like you" stuff. He and Lionel Shriver have been amongst the few opposing it and gender woo.
The head of the society of authors has been appalling at actually standing up for the interests of authors in opposing the narrowness, rigidity and ridiculousness of the censorious "right think" group although the activists in most trade unions are more captured by this nonsense than their members as a whole so it's maybe not surprising this union isn't an exception.

Natsku · 26/02/2023 06:16

Well that's exciting!