[ SECRET POST #2637 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2637 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT, but yes, it seems odd to me, and yes it is a dichotomy. However, it is essentially how the original race!fail discussions began, way back in metafandom. The original spark that set off the discussion was a write author saying that she wrote POCs just as she would any other characters; out of the avalanche of opinions that followed, there was a strong undercurrent of white authors have not lived the POC experience, therefore they cannot understand, therefore they should not write it.

But yes, I agree, it is ridiculously odd and surreal.

[(Anonymous)]

anon the previous anon was replying to!

Until RaceFail it never occurred to me that it might be 'wrong' for me, as a white person, to write a character of colour (though the situation had never actually arisen). I think that the world (of fandom) is now moving towards a place where it will soon be acceptable for white writers to include persons of colour in their stories, but we're not there yet, and I'm not there yet (given RaceFail), and I won't risk it yet.

IMO, that's more about self preservation than racism.