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Take it a step further. What if people start cancelling authors and publishers after they were triggered by something in a book? Think that’s impossible? Take it further still. What if authors and publishers start getting sued for not publishing trigger warnings, or the right trigger warnings? Think that won’t happen? Look around you!
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“My lawyer says I can’t be sued because everything in my book is true.”
I’m always shocked when I hear this…
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