The porn debate
Sir: Mr Don Peters says I abuse those who don't agree with me, and seems to place me among those who cry "lay down your intelligence and follow me."
I am angry, not with those who argue against me, but with those who refuse to allow my arguments — cool, rational and I hope sometimes intelligent — to exist. The New Statesman, Listener and The Times (I repeat) have not reviewed one of the last seven books I have published on education, culture and psychology. Other leading papers have refused to discuss more than one; some refuse to publish anything by me, or by intelligent journalists seriously and rationally about my work. Some have spoken of 'black lists': others `arrange' replies to my letters, etc.
One major effect is that publishers are now wary of publishing my work, not because I am argued against, but because I am either ignored or blackened. A a professor wrote recently in the 'Times,' the irrationality is all on the 'other' side today — among those who posture as guardians of freedom and toleration. I abuse them for their treachery — and the way they have ignored at least 400,000 words of calm argument, in my larger works, which Mr Peters cannot have read, to speak of me as he does. David Ho!. brook New Farm House, Madingley, Cambridge
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