[ SECRET POST #4781 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4781 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[linked for nsfw fanart, Snape/Hermione]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #684.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

03. https://i.imgur.com/nNsyCYe.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

Too tired to argue about this today, sorry

[(Anonymous)]

I haven't read it and it's definitely not my cup of tea so I wouldn't have read it even before the controversy. But what I've heard about it is kind of awful? Like I'm not even sure how people can fall for it awful? I feel the same way about The Secret.

[philstar22]

The big issue with this book is that the author got so much wrong. For all their claims of doing research the things they write about in the book doesn't actually look at all like what real immigrants are experiencing. It is more like what a wealthy white person imagines it would be like. That's why people are criticizing the author, and rightly so.

[tabaqui]

I'd never heard of this, so i popped over to Amazon to read a summary and some reviews. The first review - HUGE - pretty much agrees with you 100 percent, and goes into even more details and examines other issues.

So - not something i'd have read, anyway, but sure not gonna read it now.

[(Anonymous)]

I read this book before I knew about the controversy around it and I couldn't finish it. It's not badly written, but it really pissed me off because it felt like it was romanticizing a lot of terrible shit that shouldn't be romanticized.

[philstar22]

Pretty much. That's what pisses me off about it. And also, the main character has money and can get out of what she goes through in ways my clients can't. Plus, the book demonizes Hispanic cultures and makes America out to be this safe haven and doesn't have any nuance to it. No it is just escaping from a bad place and coming to a good place.

[(Anonymous)]

And it's still going to be a bsetseller. I think that some people just want horrible things to be romanticised. (looks at the Tatooist of Auschwitz, I don't care if it was a real-life story somewhere at the beginning, when you try to read it it has just enough of Auschwitz too keep it "realistic" and just enough of mistakes and romanticism to make it off-putting.)

[(Anonymous)]

Gah. I’m white and have been trying to dissuade people from reading this crap (I work in a library) and explain why it’s offensive/shitty when people ask, but I’m not making much headway mostly because of the Oprah’s book club thing, but also other white people aren’t big fans of being told they should listen to pissed off actual Mexican immigrants over a white lady who wrote the easily digestible baby-food version of the shit they lived through.

It’s especially grating when some of them are the sort to shrug off the horrible treatment of immigrants and asylum seekers by the US government in general and the current administration specifically.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm so glad my library workers don't try to tell me what to read.

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, if the people coming into the library don't ask for your opinion on the book, or open a conversation with you about what sorts of books they should be looking for, it seems pretty obnoxious that you'd take it upon yourself to steer them away from the book they want to read.

Articles on the topic

[(Anonymous)]

https://slate.com/culture/2020/01/american-dirt-jeanine-cummins-mexican-experience.html

https://slate.com/culture/2020/01/american-dirt-jeanine-cummins-mexican-experience.html

[(Anonymous)]

Do you bitch about SJW's and enjoy watching nobullshit too, OP?

[(Anonymous)]

"Performative wokeness" is the FS-approved term, OP.

The comments ITT are a good example.

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, but why does that first image of him look like every creepy incel white guy I have ever met? It's less "terrifying psychopath" and more "pathetic manchild".

[(Anonymous)]

SA
oops, wrong secret. This is for #2!