Sally Rooney. Photo: Erik Voake/Getty Images “We have reported Sally Rooney to the Terrorism Police,” is the type of thing you’d imagine reading on Twitter in 2020, hours after the Hulu and BBC adaptation of Normal People dropped and everyone was reckoning with Paul Mescal’s thighs for the first time. The sentiment, however, is not born out of pandemic horniness or even frustration with the Irish author’s refusal to use quotation marks, but an ongoing escalation in the conservative media battle against Rooney for speaking out in favor of Palestine Action, a U.K.-based direct-action network founded in 2020 that takes...
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