I don’t think that is happening, that’s not happening anymore”, he continued. “You can’t be that racist on Twitter without people calling you out and having your things cancelled and having your account blocked. Probably much more than a Black woman gets”, he said in response to the claim that bigoted trolls are barred from platforms when they target marginalised groups like Black women. “I get so much crap on Twitter, so much crap on Twitter. Speaking on Channel 4 News in 2019, during the promotion of his non-fiction book 'White' (more on that one in a bit), the author stated: “Kathryn Bigelow would be considered a mildly interesting filmmaker if she was a man but since she's a very hot woman she's really overrated.” He thinks he gets more abuse as Black women The film starred Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman, the anti-hero of the novel who is a materialistic yuppie who leads a secret life as a serial killer. It became a cult hit and reappraised as a black comedy, a satire of Regan’s America, and a postmodern critique of capitalist consumption - especially after the 2000 film adaptation directed by Mary Harron. The book was named the 53rd most banned book from 1990-1999 by the American Library Association, and its sale and marketing in Germany was restricted from 1995 to 2000. Knopf decided to release it as a paperback.īans followed around the world.

The controversy led to death threats, and American publishing house Alfred A. Petitions were signed to ban the controversial book, “a contemptible piece of pornography”, and Ellis was dropped by his then publishers Simon & Schuster because of “aesthetic differences”. Upon its release, it was widely condemned as being too graphically violent, outright misogynistic and got him labelled as a sadist.

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