The outgoing president of PEN America resigned due to the hypocrisy of the US's most prominent 'free-speech' group, likening it to the Writers’ Union in the USSR, an institution empowered by the state to project a kind of national and moral superiority, but unable to stand dissent of any kind.
#PENAmerica #FreeSpeech #Palestine
https://www.equator.org/articles/inside-pen-america-dinaw-mengestu
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