In the New York Times post “Will the Left Survive the Millennials?” written by Lionel Shriver, Shriver points out a current issue with millennials, she questions the “weaponized sensitivity” of the generation as a whole and argues that fiction needs freedom of speech.
Shriver says “Midway through my opening address for the Brisbane Writers Festival earlier this month, Yassmin Abdel-Magied, a Sudanese-born Australian engineer and 25-year-old memoirist, walked out” which Shriver then explains that Yassmin was offended by her speech that it was “cultural appropriation” and that's why she left but Shriver explains her fiction in her opening of her speech was just that fiction, and “thus should not let concerns about ‘cultural appropriation’
Shriver says “Midway through my opening address for the Brisbane Writers Festival earlier this month, Yassmin Abdel-Magied, a Sudanese-born Australian engineer and 25-year-old memoirist, walked out” which Shriver then explains that Yassmin was offended by her speech that it was “cultural appropriation” and that's why she left but Shriver explains her fiction in her opening of her speech was just that fiction, and “thus should not let concerns about ‘cultural appropriation’