Literary critics and public intellectuals have blasted NSW Arts Minister Ben Franklin’s attempt to cancel a talk about bestiality at Sydney’s upcoming Festival of Dangerous Ideas | michaelkoziol
at Sydney’s upcoming Festival of Dangerous Ideas, describing it an overreaction and a throwback to 1950s censorship.revealed on Sunday that Franklin had not contacted or sought information from festival organisers before demanding, through a statement to Nine Radio’s 2GB, that the talk by UK-based professor Joanna Bourke be scrapped.
“If you don’t denounce, you’re taken to approve — and therefore you’ve got to shut everything down as much as possible,” Marr said. “You’ve got to show your virtue by censoring. Feminist writer and activist Eva Cox said the subject might be “fairly tacky” but it should not be banned unless it was seriously damaging.
“I would never say to shut it down ... but the world’s in a bad place, as if this is helping,” she said. “I don’t think the government should come in. It may not be to your taste but the right of art to exist is to be valued and defended.”
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