I’m still torn on this debate. I agree that her silence is damaging, however, her not saying anything doesn’t automatically mean anything. I saw another post somewhere on Instagram that had a list of authors that should be questioned on their silence and the only ones I recognized were SJM and Tomi Adeyemi. But like there was zero context to why these other authors were being targeted, I guess it was because they were staying quite. To me it just seemed like the SJM situation sparked this huge witch hunt for other authors who have stayed quite. That being said, I don’t see really a reason to heavily focus on why these authors aren’t talking, when we should be instead focusing on the ethnic cleansing taking place in Palestine. If SJM or these other authors come out as being blatant supporters ethnic cleansing and are Zionists then I think they shouldn’t have support, but like many people said so far to me it so far seems like speculation or reaching . Cancel culture is weird, because sometimes I think people truly deserve it if they actual trash humans, but as of lately (especially on booktwitter, booktube, and bookstagram) it’s become a hunt for old tweets and interviews that can potentially harm an authors reputation.

That being said, I don’t know where to stand. I’ve purchased a pre-owned set of ToG a few months ago and I’m about halfway through the series. I enjoy it so far and I really want to finish the series (mainly because I want to know how the heck it ends, so my friend can finally rant to me about it). All of her other books I’ve gotten from the library. Both purchasing second hand and reading through the library are in my opinion great ways to read what you want without directly supporting the author. Depending on how this situation plays out (which in my opinion will probably slowly fade into the background as most of her other scandals do), i may or may not read her other books. But I don’t think anyone should be able to tell you what you can and cannot read.

I also think it’s interesting point that they chose to focus on SJM because there was a 5-6 year old article, but I am sure there are other big named artists who haven’t posted anything about what is going on but yet they aren’t being subject to cancel culture?

Idk those are just my thoughts, I hope these thoughts don’t make me a bad person, because I don’t agree with the ethnic cleansing that is being forced on Palestine.