I just finished a project on Ray Bradbury and it's fascinating how, from Neil Gaiman to Gary Groth, every single comics guy's terrible opinions on "censorship" emulates Bradbury’s exactly. What a legacy

Bradbury's attitude towards what we now call political correctness (from an essay he wrote in 1979) is indistinguishable from the rhetoric today. He perceived the real threat to free speech to be…minorities, somehow

Immediately he makes a leap from polite fan letters asking about representation to arson and guillotines. Bradbury was totally hysterical

Like I can feel Bradbury's certainty that this essay is full of zings but it's so clear that what he was writing about was never about society, it was about one writer--and now I guess, one type of reader/writer--feeling threatened and territorial

I see a direct line from Bradbury in 1979 to last year, when the CBLDF released that statement on Milo. For me that really underlined how much conversations around censorship are really about this panic surrounding whiteness and maleness

This is a character in Fahrenheit 451 explaining how books got banned. There's a reason the writing is so broad. There’s just no logical explanation for how you get from here to there, for how shunning Milo would lead to the fall of civilization

Anyway Fahrenheit 451 is a terrible book on every level but I love the part where the protagonist has an epiphany about how all books are written by men and his wife doesn’t gaf