I follow a lot of bookstagram accounts and I had finally gathered up the courage to start my own. I love reading other people’s reviews and I love posting about books I read and non of my friends on my personal account seem that interested.

Anyways, today I saw this post about boycotting authors who support Israel or take a neutral stance. Basically this is cancel culture, but we can’t even call it so since essentially there is a genocide going on and it’s pretty shitty that anyone with influence such as big name authors would post things in favor of it publicly (privately disagreeing is one thing, but some things need to be kept to oneself)

I’m personally pro-Palestine. I believe what is going on right now is 100% genocide and inhuman, and most likely fueled by a desire to acquire natural gas reserves in the Gaza strip (a hypothesis so far unproven).

However, being pro palestine doesn’t mean I don’t absolutely LOVE Taylor Jenkins Reid, Alice Oseman, Pierce Brown to name a few.

Not buying their books is easy enough but should I not be posting/ reviewing about their books either? I love their work, and I want to say so, without everyone canceling my account into oblivion.

I’d love to hear what you guys think. I’m sure some of y’all also follow book related social media profiles. How would you feel if a content creator was pro palestine and advocated for palestine but continues to enjoy works of authors such as above? Should authors/ books be boycotted at all?

What’s your take on this?

  • ManyHabit8785@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    A month ago 90% of TikTok users couldn’t point to Isreal or Palastine on a map, and they sure didn’t know fuck all about the history of the conflict.

    Remember kids, if your going to keep getting attention on social media you’ve got to go beyond the what everyone else is doing!!

    Posting a flag, writing a slogan, thoughts and prayers just doesn’t get the attention like before. You gotta call for a boycott of writers that you never had any intention of ever reading, in fact, until pointed out to you, you had no idea they even wrote, let alone their political leanings.

    Gotta get those sweet, sweet, likes!!

    I hate this social media activist bullshit, with every fibre of my being: it’s vapid, fake, transitory outrage, solely to signal to others online that you’re ‘one of them’.

    This time next year it’ll be ‘stand up for Koalas!’ don’t read books by Dingoes!!!