Books by Cancelled People

themulhern: The author was working as a comedian and stopped being able to get gigs once he was connected with his satirical alter-ego Titania McGrath. This was his first book after that event. https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/january-february-2021/kicked-out-of-the-comedy-club/

themulhern: This book describes the experience of Jack Phillips, who, evidently quite politely, declined to decorate a cake in a way that was antithetical to his moral principles and who has since been persecuted for having taken this stance in a variety of ways. https://thefederalist.com/2022/10/06/the-never-ending-persecution-of-jack-phillips/

themulhern: This book may have been what got Andrew Doyle, the real author, into trouble and lost him his opportunities as a comedian. https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/january-february-2021/kicked-out-of-the-comedy-club/

themulhern: The author was forced out of her job at the University of Suffolk with threats of violence and wrote this book, more or less simultaneously. https://unherd.com/2021/11/kathleen-stock-i-wont-be-silenced/

themulhern: Wade was subjected to much insult for giving his considered and informed opinion on the origins of the COVID virus. See probably ephemeral link: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3890421-house-democrats-denounce-gop-covid-witness-as-having-racist-views/

themulhern: Nicholas Wade's post-retirement interest in human evolution and his most recent book on the subject are still being used as ammunition to suppress his opinions on the origins of COVID. https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3890421-house-democrats-denounce-gop-covid-witness-as-having-racist-views/

themulhern: Union organizer who was fired for being pro-Brexit wrote this book: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-56376172

themulhern: Galileo got himself into serious trouble with this one, as is a matter of historical record: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Galileo-Galilei/Galileos-Copernicanism#ref576727

themulhern: In this book, J. K. Rowling was felt to have commented pretty obviously, about her own experiences of online harassment: https://nypost.com/2022/08/31/j-k-rowlings-new-book-murders-character-called-transphobic/

themulhern: This is a memoir describing how the author was kicked off the comedy circuit: https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/10/12/tough-crowd-the-tragedy-of-graham-linehan/

themulhern: Fatwah declared against the book's author when it was published. He was recently assaulted and nearly killed, having been stabbed in the eye.

themulhern: After this book was published, the Dutch government was compelled to supply the author with around the clock security. She has since moved to the United States. Some of that experience is, I believe, described in a subsequent book, "Nomad". She was placed on a list of some sort by the SPLC (Southern Poverty Law Center). https://www.hudson.org/national-security-defense/a-new-blacklist-from-the-southern-poverty-law-center-marks-the-demise-of-a-once-vital-organization

themulhern: https://unherd.com/2021/12/inside-the-trans-publishing-purge/

themulhern: From "Books that Changed America" by Robert B. Downs: When Paine returned to America in 1802, he found himself received not as a Revolutionary hero, but virtually ostracized by political leaders and churchgoers, due to his authorship of "The Age of Reason" and his radical political theories....After seven incredible years of abuse, hatred, neglect, poverty, and ill health, he died in 1809, at the age of seventy-five. He was denied burial in a Quaker cemetery.

themulhern: Arrested and prosecuted for what (likely) should have been legally protected actions.

themulhern: https://unherd.com/newsroom/picador-cancels-poet-kate-clanchys-books/; https://unherd.com/2022/02/how-sensitivity-readers-corrupted-literature/

themulhern: The author was working as a comedian and stopped being able to get gigs once he was connected with his satirical alter-ego Titania McGrath. https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/january-february-2021/kicked-out-of-the-comedy-club/

themulhern: https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/01/22/the-shameless-campaign-to-silence-jordan-peterson/

themulhern: The author appears to have received death threats when his research was first published because it offended sensibilities. https://news.asu.edu/20201228-memory-influential-anthropologist-christy-g-turner-ii