Another Sherman Alexie comment: “Self-censorship among writers is a real and serious problem in this era. To believe otherwise either means you live and work in a very small circle of like-minded friends or that you think this self-censorship is a good thing.” Surely people who organize social-media campaigns against wrongthink do indeed believe that self-censorship is a good thing. The point of such campaigns is less to punish already-published writing than to intimidate writers going forward. If writers self-censor for fear of offending someone, that’s precisely the goal of the intimidators.