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[caparrucia]

Here's a scorching hot take for you:

If, in a public space (or a private space that you personally do not control/moderate), conversation turns towards depiction of oppression in fiction, and you are not a member of that oppressed group, but discussion of it makes you uncomfortable, particularly if people are bringing up and platforming oppressed voices in the name of more nuanced, genuine representation?

If you then wade in to yell about how you don't do that, you don't even try to write that because what if you fuck up, haha, it's so difficult to include Those People, so better if someone like you doesn't even try...

You are an unmitigated dipshit and I hope you step on Lego, forever.

Look, if conversation makes you uncomfortable, you don't have to participate. But it is gross as fuck to try and derail and make it about you.

And you know it's the white folk doing it. It's always the white folk doing it. White folk are always profoundly uncomfortable when everything isn't about them, always.

Just.

Your inability to handle even the barest discussion of FICTION makes all your grandstanding about activism fucking suspect.

It's gross. Be fucking better about it.

[caparrucia]

I love her, your honor.