This is largely a criticism of 'the Left,' but the Right has caught up and is burning (so to speak) books - and authors - regularly.

https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/activist-witchfinders-still-rule-the-book-world-c96t9trq9

In 2021, when lockdown was driving people insane, (author Kate) Clanchy’s 2019 book about working with children, Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me, was suddenly derided on social media as racist, because she used physical descriptions like “chocolate-coloured skin”. The charge was led by three women: Monisha Rajesh, Sunny Singh and Chimene Suleyman, all middle-aged, middle-class writers, like Clanchy. Pan Macmillan, Clanchy’s publisher through its Picador imprint, abjectly apologised to them and parted ways with its writer. But apologies never satisfy witchfinder generals like Rajesh, Singh and Suleyman because, as one children’s author (who is still too scared to give her name) said to me last week, “They don’t want to fix problems, because their entire brand is outrage. That’s how they promote themselves.”

Another excerpt:

Clanchy’s story is now told in the BBC podcast Anatomy of a Cancellation and her career is back on track — but she is the exception. Because she was far from the only author whose career was turned into roadkill by online bullies.

Philip’s books for kids were so popular that she had done international tours. In 2020 she tweeted her support of JK Rowling for questioning gender ideology and was subjected to a barrage of abuse. Her publisher and agent knew Philip’s husband had died the previous month, but they dropped her anyway, saying it was inappropriate for her to tweet political opinions, “although they didn’t mind when other writers wrote anti-Trump tweets”, Philip notes. Realising that her writing career was over, she passed her HGV (truck driving) test the following year: “And my bosses here are fantastic. Publishing could learn a lot from trucking.”

Ursula Doyle, an editor who felt hounded out of her job in 2024 after publishing Kathleen Stock’s feminist book Material Girls, says: “There had been highly political issues in publishing before — cultural appropriation, Brexit, MeToo, Black Lives Matter. But never anything before like the trans issue, where even to question it meant you were an evil person.” She settled with her former employer, Hachette, in June this year.

The last line says it all about the 'race,' 'gender,' and feminism industries, and has since the '70s. When the Left turns from equality, the needs of the working class, and anti-war aims to suppression of 'disapproved ideas,' it's as bad as the Right, IMO.