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fandomsecrets2023-08-05 04:52 pm
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⌈ Secret Post #6056 ⌋
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(Anonymous) 2023-08-06 05:03 am (UTC)(link)"There was one popular post on tumblr that said she was racist because her dystopia excluded POC by a brief mention that they were killed or shipped off to camps, and it was triggering for the OP to have to read the book in English class so they should stop teaching it in English class, and OP was a mindreader who knew Atwood wrote it that way because she hated POC (not, you know, because she wanted to show how dystopic her dystopia was toward groups that are already marginalized in the real world).
I do think there is a conversation to be had around using marginalized groups as essentially cannon fodder to prove a point, and the side-effect that it results in, which is that they don't get to have stories of their own in the world the author created. On the other hand, Atwood had no obligation to go into detail and the specific struggles WOC would have faced if they had been permitted to live in that world. (And if she had, she surely would have been torn into for "getting it wrong" somehow.) It's a story from the perspective of one woman, who is white, and that's valid."