Dreher Is Finally Getting It: "ABA: We're Book-Banners, But For The Left"

I mentioned this in April. There are no right-of-center books mentioned on the Banned Books Week page. 

This is the way the left operates. "Politically correct' means correct from the leftist perspective. "Social justice" means just from the leftist perspective. "Change" means change leftward. Suppression of expression is awful if the expression is leftist. Censorship is awful if it's censorship of the left. These things are all so well-established among progressives that I doubt they ever even notice--the organization that runs banned books week doesn't even bat an eye at labeling a right-of-leftist book as "violence."  And, of course, hyperbolically apologizing for inflicting book-sales violence on unknown snowflakes. 

Dreher:

   Let me remind you that this is the trade association of independent booksellers, yet they believe that simply mentioning a popular book that offends against woke dogma is “a violent incident.” They are abasing themselves FOR MENTIONING A BOOK THAT IS FOR SALE!
   These are the same people who squawk on self-righteously about Banned Books Week. They are advocating banning books (“banning” by their standard). You can’t make this up.
   See, this kind of thing is why I’ve become more radicalized this summer. I don’t believe that the leading voices of the Left have any confidence in traditional liberal principles anymore. They — or at least their organizations, like ABA — are illiberal leftists. I would like to be wrong, but this is a perfect example of what Wesley Yang says of wokeness: that it’s the “successor ideology” to liberalism. A liberal American Booksellers Association would never have put out that kind of cringe, disgraceful tweet. Woke ABA would, and did.

Go read it, I say, and follow the links to several disgraceful, groveling, shitty, stupid, anti-liberal statements by the ABA. They deserve endless ridicule for this stuff.