Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on cancel culture

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has used an interview on Newsnight to celebrate Half of a Yellow Sun winning the title of best Women's Prize for Fiction to talk about cancel culture and people being too scared to say what they really think. Here's the link to Newsnight:

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/live/bbctwo

The BBC News website fails to mention her comments.

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/live/bbctwo

And her hair is wonderful! What a woman.

I thought she was quite guarded in what she said.

Her hair was wonderful. She is very beautiful and I love her dress sense.

She is wonderful. So intelligent, poised, courageous. And her stories are magnificent. Glad to hear she got that prize. Well deserved!

But she said something, Dido, even though she didn't have to.

I remember CNA talked about TW being TW a few years ago and just about got away with it... there were some rumblings but I don't think she got the full cancellation experience.

Her books are incredibly good.

Thank you for posting this OP. I would never have seen it otherwise.

She's on at 30:15 for anyone who wants to ff. She's a gracious and lovely and gives me hope.

@queenofknives

I remember CNA talked about TW being TW a few years ago and just about got away with it... there were some rumblings but I don't think she got the full cancellation experience.

Her books are incredibly good.

This^^ we weren't quite so deep in cancel culture as we are today as this was a few years ago but she still got a little backlash for it. Held her ground though.👊

I remember how this actually showed the hypocrisy of modern day 'activism' of the woke. This is a woman who has done so much for women and comes from a non-western country and has campaigned for actual feminism and womens rights and is being bashed on by a bunch of keyboard warriors because her lived experiance does not follow their ideology.

These are the same type of people who love putting "BLM" in their social media bio's but in reality what they actually mean is "Black lives matter!...unless they don't toe the ideological line so they should be tossed aside!"

That's weird timing. I took a class at uni "worldwide women writers" and I've got new bookcases so am going through everything and just decided to book this book by my bedside to re-read!

These are the same type of people who love putting "BLM" in their social media bio's but in reality what they actually mean is "Black lives matter!...unless they don't toe the ideological line so they should be tossed aside!"

Allison Bailey has been subjected to hugely offensive racial language by people who proclaim their BLM support in their bios. Properly disgusting. https://twitter.com/BluskyeAllison/status/1301116600251297794?s=20

These are the same type of people who love putting "BLM" in their social media bio's but in reality what they actually mean is "Black lives matter!...unless they don't toe the ideological line so they should be tossed aside!"

Ain't that the truth

I love CNA. Highly recommend her books to anyone and everyone!

www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/21/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-nothing-to-apologise-for-transgender-women

www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/identities/2017/3/15/14910900/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-transgender-women-comments-apology

This is what she said in 2017. I wonder if she might have been less guarded if it weren't for the reaction here. CNA's milieu and means of earning a livelihood possibly don't give her the same freedom of saying exactly what she wants compared to JKR or male pundits like Douglas Murray. She has avoided, as far as I'm aware signing any of the recent letters and it's understandable.

I've only read One Half of a Yellow Sun and found a bit of a slog to be honest. I like her a lot more than her writing.

Well, here she says clearly that she thought JKR wrote 'a perfectly reasonable piece'

www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/14/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-america-under-trump-felt-like-a-personal-loss

“Again JK Rowling is a woman who is progressive, who clearly stands for and believes in diversity.”

That's great. Good on her.

I just read this too Hulo - it really cheered me up.

The link didn’t work for me so it found this video where I assume she similar or perhaps it’s n the same video hosted elsewhere.
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I really like her writing and in interviews she is commonsensical, funny, clever and forthright. I saw her interviewed in a huge venue by one of our Queens of TRA Wokedom in Dublin a couple of years ago and oh how I wish the subject had come up because she would've demolished her. It was obvious QoTRWW was deeply in awe of her and did not want that to happen.

I love her books and am so glad she does not subscribe to trans ideology. A beautiful woman in every way.

I just finished her new short story, Zikora -- availavle free on Kindle Unlimited if you have Amazon Prime.
www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B08K942N84/ref=acr_dp_hist_1?filterByStar=one_star&reviewerType=all_reviews&tag=mumsnetforu03-21&ie=UTF8#reviews-filter-bar

It's fantastic -- though I don't generally read short stories and wish this had been extended into a novel.
And I can now state without question that this is my number 1 contemporary author; possibly my number 1 all time author. That she's black and a woman is just icing on the cake.
Do read it! It's about femalehood.

Thanks Malahaha

These are the same type of people who love putting "BLM" in their social media bio's but in reality what they actually mean is "Black lives matter!...unless they don't toe the ideological line so they should be tossed aside!"

And they're the same with women. So it's a double whammy for black women (as in many other things).

Cancel culture works both ways and nobody wants to admit it. So everyone just keeps trying to cancel what they view to be the opposition and on and on we go, asking for other to be cancelled and asking the cancel culture to stop.

Race religion class gender. It's continuous. Anti-semitism Islam black white middle class working class cisgender transgender gender.