"...Shriver was widely criticized for her tone and her insensitivity to the exquisitely fragile feelings of those young people whose expensive educations have not accustomed them to robust debate."

Lionel Shriver Is Out of Line

And thank God

JONATHAN FOREMAN / NOV. 16, 2016

"What was more disturbing was that the literary and media mother ships in New York and London did not automatically take the side of an author arguing for the freedom to create characters of any age, character, color, and ethnicity. Instead, Shriver was widely criticized for her tone and her insensitivity to the exquisitely fragile feelings of those young people whose expensive educations have not accustomed them to robust debate. Many of those who admonished Shriver seemed to believe that someone of her skin color should have known better, or at least shown more awareness that she was axiomatically more privileged than her interlocutors."