Suspending the membership of a WOC for drawing attention to racist content in books and racial bias on the part of acquiring editors is truly a sight to behold
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Unless I’m delirious from anger, this is establishing “don’t call people racist” as an actual RWA ethics standard.
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Also, her book is historically accurate because she says so… but Courtney didn’t provide evidence. Uh, OK.
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My favorite part was the argument of 'the book cant be racist because it sold a lot of copies'pic.twitter.com/h9803hTkwB
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I gasped out loud!
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I couldn’t even finish reading them. The rage was too intense.
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Basically the argument was "she's not racist, she's a nice 60-something white lady with a college education who has won awards!" Yeah, and?
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I literally said to my computer, "you are not helping yourself"
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But she "immersed herself in Chinese culture for six years," Cat! OBVIOUSLY that means she, a white lady, knows more about Chinese culture than a Chinese-American woman!
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If Rudy Giuliani is more Jewish than actual Jewish people, I guess this can be true.
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