"I'm not interested in more stories for the sake of more stories, I'm interested in better stories for the sake of a better world."
As a writer, I can't understand how people could not want literature in general or your favorite reading genre to be better. Who is in favor of more bad books? Or otherwise good books maimed and made less effective by bias?
From what I can tell, Charles Tan and some others in this conversation are conflating the natural insecurities of any writer with white guilt. One of the problems is that it shifts the conversation back to white people's feelings; it also has the effect of conflating people with privilege, especially race privilege, with writers, a much larger group--because if that's who you mean when you talk about "writers," and those are the other writers you talk about, the unspoken implication--that other writers aren't out there or don't matter--grows and grows.
Thanks for posting about this, and bringing this argument to my attention; there are some brilliant responses amid all the fail, like deepad's and delux_vixens's Adonis quote.
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"I'm not interested in more stories for the sake of more stories, I'm interested in better stories for the sake of a better world."
As a writer, I can't understand how people could not want literature in general or your favorite reading genre to be better. Who is in favor of more bad books? Or otherwise good books maimed and made less effective by bias?
From what I can tell, Charles Tan and some others in this conversation are conflating the natural insecurities of any writer with white guilt. One of the problems is that it shifts the conversation back to white people's feelings; it also has the effect of conflating people with privilege, especially race privilege, with writers, a much larger group--because if that's who you mean when you talk about "writers," and those are the other writers you talk about, the unspoken implication--that other writers aren't out there or don't matter--grows and grows.
Thanks for posting about this, and bringing this argument to my attention; there are some brilliant responses amid all the fail, like deepad's and delux_vixens's Adonis quote.