Thoughts?

Publishers are hiring 'sensitivity readers' to flag potentially offensive content:

chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/books/ct-publishers-hiring-book-readers-to-flag-sensitivity-20170215-story.html

find one of the other 6000 threads that this has been discussed in

Personally, I don't give a shit

>find one of the other 6000 threads that this has been discussed in

Rude.

Personally, I believe free speech is an archaic principle left over from another time. We need the government to tell us what he can and can't say or read.

chicago tribune must be paying commission by click

How much are they paying?

Looks like CTR is out in full force today

A few hundred dollars per book read.

How is this different than the MPAA for film or the ESRB for video games?

I can't write a book about knife raping nuns?! Fuck off!

time is a flat circle

BritBrit is qt

>guys look how dismissive and hyperbolic i am! isn't it just like me haha

I mean, if it's well-written...

are the nuns rapists of knives? or do the nuns rape people with knives?

It's about empathy, marginalised people are hurting, and only we can help

It's a bit different because the sensitivity readers actually help edit the book to make it less triggering for minorities.

It's just a bad sign in general. Where is the arrow pointing? Towards more freedom of expression, or less?

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the fell when to intelligent to read books but not smart enough to read Veeky Forums posts

If leftists get their way, everything even remotely resembling good art is going to be banned, cause it might offend the transgenders. This is why I am for fascism. I think fascism is the ultimate affirmation of life, power, beauty and dignity. Leftists hate life, power, beauty and dignity with a vengeance. They have enshrined weakness as the highest, most noble of all values.

>not putting the link through archive.org
kys

empathy is a two way street. Too much is bad.

Offensive to whom? ZOG?

>fascism is better for art

you need to get out

Nonetheless, the current worship of the weak and the wretched, the constant walking on tip toes, and the substitution of culture for vain marxist pieties has gone to far. It is, I believe, time for the emergence of a radically life affirming force which rejects slave morality. And this force might as well be fascism. We are faced with a choice between fascism and barbarism. And it can't wait.

I think you are right about fascism being the answer, right now, but

> I think fascism is the ultimate affirmation of life, power, beauty and dignity.

I don't agree with. Throughout history there have been different struggles and different demons. Fascism is not always the answer. But with marxism on the rise in the West while simultaneously corporatist globalist (((influencers))) are impregnating western countries with poisonous brown masses, fascism seems to be inevitable at this point.

You need to lose a few chromosomes. Look at the world around you. Which side of the political spectrum is banning symbols, flags and words, and increasingly so?

This is why you don't read books written after the 1950s

The Left on the other side, hates beauty, it hates strength and purity. The leftist worships ugliness, weakness, disease and perversion. Ultimately, the leftist worships death and decadence. Not only art but the very soul of man is at stake. I believe man is not defined by it's lesser exemplars, the weak and the maimed, the disturbed, the primitive savage and the snivelling victim, but by the greatest, the great geniuses, the conquerors, the artists.

Leftist 'art' is twerking and Beyonce. The left kills art before it is born by subordinating it to piety, be it in the guise of the party, or on the newer guises of 'diversity' 'progress' , 'tolerance'. Only fascism can achieve the full expressive realisation of being by demolishing all the constraints between superior man and the realisation of its potentiality.

I don't even read new books so idc

>a few hundred dollars to read a book and highlight "muh trigger words"
Just sent in my resume, wish me luck boys ;)

> publishers employ readers and focus groups to establish if a given product will appeal to a targeted demographic

Color me surprised.

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hamsun was a good writer............that was about it.

capitalism
It just werks

Thanks for this sober-minded post. I nearly got angry for a second. Now I feel silly instead.

> targeting the bed-wetting liberal dollar.....that's a good move.....that's a strong dollar. "Sensitivity readers"....that's a good idea Chuck.

Tony Parsons employs a PR agency to organise focus groups of his targeted readership to evaluate his books whilst he's writing them.
His books are fucking awful.
This is the failing of the PR agencies participant selection methods and has nothing to do with Parsons being a shit writer.

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What a time to be alive.

They want to prevent the dissemination of dangerous ideas. A bestseller could convince millions to take up antinatalism, monism, anti-semitism, etc.

On a whim the world's most brilliant author could decide to spend 4 months writing the work that could cause the collapse of civilization if enough people read it. Without sensitivity readers this work would get distributed to millions. That's the brilliance of online publishing and why unlimited free speech is a bad idea.

> they

"They" want to make money.
YOU want to get your panties in a twist as it suits YOUR agenda.

Oh. I didn't know we had Chinese posters here too.

Not an argument

>"They" want to make money.

Civilization is man's greatest invention. At their core, alpha males want to fuck as many of the hottest women in the widest variety. Living in a clan of not more than 100 people, a handful of which are hot females. With


King Solomon did have that many wives and they were all super hot. Jesus fucked as many women as he could in his lifetime, same with Muhammed, peace be upon him.

You know what was truly special about these figures though? They helped maintain civilization. They fucked like mad, but they ensured that no one after them would do the same. Christianity cemented monogamy and the concept of love as central components of western cultures.

This is the result of mixing commercialism with art. The world's wealthiest artists are bullshitters with the wealthiest clients.

muh leftists are the real fascists, but also fascism is Actually Good, btw.

As callous as this may come off, there is a very fundamental difference between humans descended from enslaved African's who originated from tribal cultures and humans who are descended from civilized humans.

Westerners lost their tribal nature a long time ago, they evolved to thrive as civilized humans. This is why because we are the descendants. In the same way, African-Americans today are evolved to thrive in non-civilized societies. It would be better for us all to cut our losses and emancipate black people from the oppression of civilization on their uncivilized bodies.

Also the result of it being near impossible to make a living from literature.

>the result of it being near impossible to make a living from literature.

Yeah, that's why you befriend a rich guy, explain to him why you're right about everything and then bum off him and his trust fund. Literally what I'm doing until I decide to do something else.

>As callous as this may come off, there is a very fundamental difference between humans descended from enslaved African's who originated from tribal cultures and humans who are descended from civilized humans.
>white Americans
>the people too poor to live in Ireland, Scotland, Spain, Italy, or Norway
>Africa was all tribal
>when Southern manners were noted by every English visitor to sound rather like their nannies had taught them Gold Coast Court etiquette
>when the Ashanti Empire is built on the slave trade
>and still wasn't as big as Mali under Mansa Musa
Are white Americans too dumb to read anything other than fairy tales, or do they teach you this bullshit as "history" like the USSR used teach people history?

Do you have to let a patron "have his way with you" or is your anal virginity left intact.....otherwise I might try this.
>Are Americans dumb
> being this new to planet earth

Unless I missed it somewhere, that article says nothing about publishers hiring these people, or any flagging of offensive content. It seems to be about authors hiring people to help them write characters in a 'sensitive' way, whatever the fuck that means.

So I'm definitely less outraged that it's the authors hiring these people of their own accord, but I'm still outraged that our society has forced them to do this sort of thing. But the authors that do this are progressive shits who believe that crap anyway. Normal people would stand up to or ignore that kind of criticism from the left, but these authors actually believe the criticism so I guess it serves them right. But it's still sad to see.

? Why do you keep saying leftists are fascists? Fascism is exclusively right wing authoritarian, left wing authoritarian is not fascism.

>when Southern manners were noted by every English visitor to sound rather like their nannies had taught them Gold Coast Court etiquette
sounds interesting. anything I can read on that?

Leftists are the real fascists, while fascists are the real freedom fighters and also the most oppressed minority in present day america

I don't think you understand what you're saying. Fascism is a branch of right wing authoritarianism, what you are saying makes no sense.

Chuckled

Yes, national SOCIALISM had no liberal aspects at al, just mechanical monster wiping and devwering its citizens

It wasn't very libertine if that's what you mean, but it had strong elements of populism and social welfare

He's suggesting that the actual actions of the dominant left ideology today are fascist in their essence. Stop getting hung up on labels, it makes it really easy to see your postmodernism.

Were the means of productions in the hands of the proletariat in Nazi Germany?

Stop projecting. Call it what it is, left wing marxist authoritarians.

>Stop projecting. Call it what it is, left wing marxist authoritarians.
haha wtf. you are so dumb

#woke

lel my book will never get past this garbage

guess it's vanity publishing for me

>you're so post modern XD XD

Shitposting aside, most 20th century art is based on fascist ideology. Marinetti's Futurist Mannifesto kind of lays it all out and showed the direction modern art was going to go.

Ironically, Eliot and Joyce bungled it all for literature by resorting to using reference in their works and becoming enshrined in canon for it.

Celine, Mishima, Knausgaard, Norris and Lawrence to some extent as well.