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So… Sally Rooney is a racist now, too?
Blocking her book from Hebrew isn’t a brave political stance. It’s a racist one.
The last couple of years have truly peeled back the layers.
One of those (perhaps unsurprising, as you’ll read in the article) is that Sally Rooney is now basically a racist.
Medium readers of a certain disposition probably didn’t want to hear that.
Sorry y’all.
But it looks like your wunderkind of vanilla sex, bathos and the low hanging fruit of ‘oh, gosh, a certain brand of Millennials have low empathy for others and high ennui’ also really enjoys cultural discrimination.
After all, Ms Rooney, if you’re so pro human rights as you wish to revere yourself, why not block your book from being published in Arabic, US English and Mandarin, too?
Specifically, that cultural discrimination includes actively marginalising Jewish people and speakers of an already persecuted language, and banning religious groups from the right to read her book.
Cynically, her book’s Hebrew translation translation rights “are still for sale”.
