While individual authors might well improve their writing by learning from older works, IT DOESN'T FOLLOW THAT A READER'S EXPERIENCE MUST ALSO BE IMPROVED BY DOING THE SAME THING. But when schools teach The Canon above all, they're not helping writers. They're training READERS -
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- it's thanks to active pushback and monumental acts of will, most often by marginalised creators, who expend their time and energy making space for themselves and their peers within an industry that often, still, tries to push them out.
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(For an example of such bias, we need look no further than Cluess saying a WOC doesn't deserve her job as a teacher for daring to question The Canon and probe it for racism - a statement she then tries to gloss over by claiming Calm And Rational Concern For Literature
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Like far too many industries, publishing is very one step forward, two steps back when it comes to diversifying, which is why we can't rest on the non-existent laurels of Modern Publishing Is Fixed Now You Guys, Bias Only Happened In Ye Olden Dayes.
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