According to the Associated Press, Salman Rushdie has been stabbed at an upstate New York event.
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Update 20:00 EST :
Hours after he was attacked and stabbed, author Salman Rushdie was on a ventilator, with a damaged liver, severed nerves in an arm, and an eye he was likely to lose, his agent said.
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Extremely bad take. Every reply is an even worse take.
Writing a book in the '80s that's just 550 pages of hate speech is totally the same thing as being visibly queer in public.
Who in their right mind considers The Satanic Verses as hate speech? lol.
Considering it's banned for being hate speech in 11 countries, was widely protested for being hate speech, and resulted in a fatwa for that reason, a fair number of people consider it to be hate speech.
It's not protested for being hate speech. It's protested for being blasphemous. These things are not even remotely the same. You have to be pretty fucking fanatical to think that some historical fiction novel is worth the amount of death and disaster that the book has provoked.
