{"id":1516953,"date":"2022-06-15T10:19:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T14:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1516953"},"modified":"2022-06-15T10:19:32","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T14:19:32","slug":"the-left-has-forced-their-beliefs-again-author-james-patterson-apologizes-for-comments-on-racism-against-white-men-fans-react","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-left-has-forced-their-beliefs-again-author-james-patterson-apologizes-for-comments-on-racism-against-white-men-fans-react\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Left Has Forced Their Beliefs Again\u2019: Author James Patterson Apologizes For Comments On Racism Against White Men, Fans React"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-left-has-forced-their-beliefs-again-author-james-patterson-apologizes-for-comments-on-racism-against-white-men-fans-react%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1516953&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Some fans are not pleased that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/entertainment\">best-selling author<\/a> James Patterson apologized for his comments on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/racism\">racism<\/a> against white men, which they claim were accurate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy goodness it\u2019s become so you can\u2019t even speak, text, post without someone attacking you, there is no \u2018let\u2019s discuss the difference of opinion in a civilized manner,\u2019\u201d one person wrote in response to Patterson\u2019s apology, which she shared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JamesPatterson\/posts\/10159905513738468\">Facebook<\/a>. \u201cYou don\u2019t need to apologize. Your history and character speak for you, and you have nothing to explain to those who wish to twist it up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think you need to apologize for saying the truth. Seems like someone will always look for a reason to be upset,\u201d another chimed in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWay to bend to pressure. The left has forced their beliefs again,\u201d a third agreed.<\/p>\n<p>The 75-year-old author had initially faced backlash after expressing his opinion that white men had a harder time getting opportunities in modern times with such a focus on diversity in most industries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Patterson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/james-patterson-white-male-writers-are-victims-of-racism-bzqj50fj3\">told<\/a> the U.K.\u2019s Sunday Times that \u201cwhite older male writers\u201d aren\u2019t getting hired for \u201cwriting gigs in film, theatre, TV or publishing\u201d currently. He said this was \u201cjust another form of racism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s that all about? Can you get a job? Yes. Is it harder? Yes. It\u2019s even harder for older writers. You don\u2019t meet many 52-year-old white males,\u201d the author continued.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the interview, Times writer Sarah Baxter said it was \u201castounding to think\u201d that Patterson\u2019s \u201csuccess as a young white author was founded on the character of a black detective,\u201d while referencing his popular Alex Cross series.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just wanted to create a character who happened to be black,\u201d Patterson replied. \u201cI would not have tried to write a serious saga about a black family. It\u2019s different in a detective story because plot is so important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t long before Patterson issued a formal apology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI apologize for saying white male writers having trouble finding work is a form of racism,\u201d the author <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JP_Books\/status\/1536741013695385603\">tweeted<\/a> and posted on Facebook Tuesday. \u201cI absolutely do not believe that racism is practiced against white writers. Please know that I strongly support a diversity of voices being heard \u2014 in literature, in Hollywood, everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While speaking with the U.K. Times, Patterson had said he\u2019s opposed to celebrities \u201cspouting off ignorantly about subjects they have gleaned off the internet.\u201d The author clarified that he\u2019s still \u201calmost always on the side of free speech.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some fans are not pleased that best-selling author James Patterson apologized for his comments on racism against white men, which they claim were accurate. \u201cMy goodness it\u2019s become so you can\u2019t even speak, text, post without someone attacking you, there is no \u2018let\u2019s discuss the difference of opinion in a civilized manner,\u2019\u201d one person wrote &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1517007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1516953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1516953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1517007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1516953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1516953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1516953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}