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> How many people don't get a second chance?

The vast majority of people attempting to get published during the "Golden Age of Science Fiction" for starters.

Even reading the autobiographical writings of those that became big names you'll find a seemingly endless runway of rejection before liftoff, cancelled acceptances, demands for rewrites, multiple publisher approaches, etc.

One publisher getting cold feet isn't the end of the world, ask any writer that's made it.

Do you have a right to be published?

Free association is also an important liberal right.

RTFA. He had a contract, which the publisher asked him to cancel. He wanted a transparent explanation for the reasoning behind the cancellation, and never got one. The correspondence was well considered and polite, but the obvious conclusion is that the publisher caved to the woke mob, and didn't want to admit it.

What does caving to the woke mob even mean?

This is just such a weird perspective.

Well, if you look closer, almost none. Controversy sells, and you can become a guest speaker on the "help! In being cancelled!" tour.