tl;dw: Johnson and Johnson is using a legal loophole to extend a patent on a life-saving drug, preventing generics from being made. Scientists estimate this will lead to 6 million more people dying of tuberculosis over the next four years, because they cannot afford the high-priced name-brand drug.
Who would've thought that the company that knew and hid info about asbestos in their baby powders for decades so they could dominate the market unimpeded could be so monstrous.
Fuck Johnson & Johnson
And fuck John "[Anne Frank] just died of illness like most people" Green too
Can you elaborate on this? I don't know the context
This covers it plus extra drama.
thanks
Honestly, it sounds like John got "canceled" for something his character said in an inner monologue in a fictional book. In my opinion, it's okay to write characters that are immoral and do immoral things. Just because a character says or does something immoral, that doesn't mean the author is a bad person, but that's just my take.
Pretty sure that was taken out of context to generate rage-bait clicks. If you are trying to "concern troll" people into thinking John Green is pro-Holocaust... you're barking up the wrong tree. John Green and his brother Hank have donated millions of dollars to help poor women in Sierra Leone get free access to healthcare. Not to sound glib, but the Green brothers have literally done more mutual aid and direct action than everyone on this website combined... Unless anyone here has also built a free women's hospital un Sub-Saharan Africa.
Mercury: "Why did you decide to throw in the story of Anne Frank alongside these fictional young women whose lives are also cut short?"
John Green: "Anne Frank was a pretty good example of a young person who ended up having the kind of heroic arc that Augustus wants—she was remembered and she left this mark that he thinks is valuable—but when he has to confront her death, he has to confront the reality that really she was robbed of the opportunity to live or die for something. She just died of illness like most people. And so I wanted him to go with a sort of expectation of her heroism and be sort of dashed."
Still shit in full context.
Nowhere does anyone say he is pro-Holocaust but you don't have to be pro-Holocaust to be an insensitive, anti-Semitic prick.
Also your last point is exactly the same talking point that liberals use to defend Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, George Soros, etc. and I cannot take that seriously in a leftist space.