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are authors only allowed to write books about people with the same skin color?

what about women using male pen names?
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that is not subtle at all

that be like naming yourself Taco Salazar Enchilada
WingsOfGood posted...
lmao Kim Chi

that is not subtle at all

that be like naming yourself Taco Salazar Enchilada
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Super offensive.
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thronedfire2 posted...
are authors only allowed to write books about people with the same skin color?

what about women using male pen names?
Completely different. First video is about a white man from Canada that wanted to write about the racism that black people experience in America. But instead of going around America and interviewing Black people, or writing about research that's already been done on the subject, he decided the best thing to do was to go around America, disguised as a black man. It's weird.
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I mean, you're a writer, not an actor. How does anyone even know what race you are?
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NoxObscuras posted...
Completely different. First video is about a white man from Canada that wanted to write about the racism that black people experience in America. But instead of going around America and interviewing Black people, or writing about research that's already been done on the subject, he decided the best thing to do was to go around America, disguised as a black man. It's weird.

oh alright I did misunderstand. I skimmed the video in the OP and the only person I saw was the asian girl, lol

but...did he experience the racism he was expecting in his travels? It's like Borat. Cohen pretended to be middle eastern and got a bunch of white people to show how much they dislike Jews on camera.
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ReturnOfDevsman posted...
I mean, you're a writer, not an actor. How does anyone even know what race you are?

Because he admitted he wore blackface.

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mercurydude posted...
Because he admitted he wore blackface.

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But, like, why?
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thronedfire2 posted...
what about women using male pen names?
how common are pen names nowadays anyway? not just in this situation but in all situations

I know they're still common in the music industry but for some reason I'd gotten the impression it was less of a thing with writers
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ReturnOfDevsman posted...
But, like, why?

He wanted to write a firsthand account about experiencing racism.

Nevermind the fact that black people don't get to go home for the week and take off their face so anything he learned would be shallow at best.
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Awful thing to do. I don't mind if you want to write characters that aren't your race, but don't fake your race.
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Tyranthraxus posted...
He wanted to write a firsthand account about experiencing racism.

Nevermind the fact that black people don't get to go home for the week and take off their face so anything he learned would be shallow at best.
Oh, I see.

That's really messed up, lol.
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ImAMarvel posted...
It's fucking shitty. It's stealing the spotlight away from real PoC authors. It's also inauthentic as fuck.
Agreed. Plus, there's also this to consider: https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/education/577722-more-than-a-third-of-white-students-lie-about-their/
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Kisai posted...
"Your thoughts on something everyone's obviously going to be against? I want to see some arguments."
Used to be you could post literally anything here and you'd get people supporting it. The last few I can remember before our quarantine were people arguing in favor of landlords raping their female tenants in lieu of rent and another topic where some dude was arguing vehemently in favor of public masturbation.

Now that we're locked down, people are more or less on their best behavior, and the shitposters can't come here anymore you just don't see the wild hot takes anymore.
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A_Good_Boy posted...
Used to be you could post literally anything here and you'd get people supporting it. The last few I can remember before our quarantine were people arguing in favor of landlords raping their female tenants in lieu of rent and another topic where some dude was arguing vehemently in favor of public masturbation.

Now that we're locked down, people are more or less on their best behavior, and the shitposters can't come here anymore you just don't see the wild hot takes anymore.
I remember the landlord one. We had to repeatedly explain why the power dynamics there made it really bad.
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NoxObscuras posted...
I remember the landlord one. We had to repeatedly explain why the power dynamics there made it really bad.
As opposed to all the other, more acceptable versions of rape?
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McMarbles posted...
As opposed to all the other, more acceptable versions of rape?
My soul hurts.
seems like you're trying to make an argument where there isn't one.

no one was discounting or diminishing other forms of rape.

it's just that landlords can often pressure people to do things, including sexual acts, due to the power they have over them due to being able to throw them on the street.
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McMarbles posted...
As opposed to all the other, more acceptable versions of rape?
My soul hurts.
What? I'm not saying "really bad" compared to other rape. I meant it in the sense that the power dynamics between landlord and tenant make it really bad compared to normal consent. Consent through coercion is not consent. I was trying to keep it short as not to derail the topic
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A_Good_Boy posted...
you just don't see the wild hot takes anymore.

Like a week ago we had a guy who thought bestiality should be legal and didn't see anything immoral with it.
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