Then afterwards you tell people the character was Black. Or Asian or gay.
It worked for the Harry Potter lady with Dumbledore.
Unless you were trying to do something else ...
... which you probably shouldn't be doing ...
Posted on 06/14/2017 1:07:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Author of Alex Rider novels was disturbed to be advised against creating a black character because he was white
Bestselling author Anthony Horowitz has said he was warned off including a black character in his new book after being told by an editor it would be inappropriate.
Horowitz, best known for his Alex Rider series of novels, said he found it “disturbing” that he was being advised against a white writer creating a black character.
He told the Mail on Sunday: “This is maybe dangerous territory but there is a chain of thought in America that it is inappropriate for white writers to try and create black characters.
Sign up for the Bookmarks email Read more “That it is actually not our experience and therefore to do so is, by its very nature, artificial and possibly patronising.
“Therefore I was warned off doing it. Which was, I thought, disturbing and upsetting.”
The creator of Foyle’s War added that taking this train of thought to the extreme, he would be forced to solely write about characters who were 62-year-old white Jewish men living in London.
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I would imagine there are VERY FEW producers and directors in Hollywood who are black.
They should use NO black people in their movies!!
It’s raciss.
Who’s going to be the smartest one in the room?
White male writers can only write white males into their stories.
Black male writers can only include black male characters.
The same for Asians, etc, and for females of each race. And the same for each of the 71 “gender options” on Facebook. Literature, movies, and TV are going to be even worse than ever.
Note: I will not be watching any love stories that follow this guidance from the Ctrl-Left.
Ok, so black authors and screenwriters are no longer permitted to write about white characters, correct?
Female writers are no longer permitted to write about MALE characters, yes? At least that means the crappy novel “The Handmaid’s Tale” and the movies based upon it must be withdrawn and tossed in the cultural scrap heap, yes?? Because Margaret Atwood had no business at all writing about male characters.
/S (need I say it)
So this is the world “LIBERALISM” wishes to create?
Sounds like a KKK’s and Black Panther’s wetdream.
Can women sue Bruce Jenner for culturally appropriating their sex?
Only the Black Panther part. They’re certainly fine with women and “people of color” writing in the voice of their white male oppressors if they feel the need.
Stop referring to it as "political correctness." "Political correctness" simply does not describe what the ideology of progressivism produces. Such a totalitarian bit of rubbish as that spouted by "progressive" regressives of the past several decades produces nothing but ignorance and infantile thinking among those propagandized by its elitist leaders.
In a free society, readers must be able to read, and writers must be able write. With Jefferson, we must be able to declare that "the rights of conscience" we never gave to them (political representatives in government).
George Washington on the Baneful Effects of Political Parties
“Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the Spirit of Party...”
Excerpts from George Washington’s Farewell Address
September 19, 1796
“... One of the expedients of Party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions & aims of other Districts. You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies & heart burnings which spring from these misrepresentations. They tend to render Alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal Affection.
...
“All obstructions to the execution of the Laws, all combinations and Associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, controul counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the Constituted authorities are distructive of this fundamental principle and of fatal tendency. They serve to Organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force — to put in the place of the delegated will of the Nation, the will of a party; often a small but artful and enterprizing minority of the Community; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public Administration the Mirror of the ill concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the Organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common councils and modefied by mutual interests. However combinations or Associations of the above description may now & then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the Power of the People, & to usurp for themselves the reins of Government; destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.“... in a country so extensive as ours, a Government of as much vigour as is consistent with the perfect security of Liberty is indispensable — Liberty itself will find in such a Government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surest Guardian. It is indeed little else than a name, where the Government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction ...
“I have already intimated to you the danger of Parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on Geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, & warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the Spirit of Party, generally.
“This Spirit, unfortunately, is inseperable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human Mind. It exists under different shapes in all Governments, more or less stifled, controuled, or repressed; but in those of the popular form it is seen in its greatest rankness and is truly their worst enemy.
“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissention, which in different ages & countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders & miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security & repose in the absolute power of an Individual: and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty.
“Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight) the common & continual mischiefs of the spirit of Party are sufficient to make it the interest and the duty of a wise People to discourage and restrain it.
“It serves always to distract the Public Councils and enfeeble the Public Administration. It agitates the Community with ill founded Jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot & insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence & corruption, which find a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country, are subjected to the policy and will of another.
“There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the Administration of the Government and serve to keep alive the spirit of Liberty. This within certain limits is probably true--and in Governments of a Monarchical cast Patriotism may look with endulgence, if not with favour, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in Governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public opinion, to mitigate & assuage it. A fire not to be quenched; it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest instead of warming it should consume."
“This is maybe dangerous territory but there is a chain of thought in America that it is inappropriate for white writers to try and create black characters.”
Yet every movie and TV show must be redone with a black as the lead character. Hey white America: Stop bei g afraid of the negroes.
Then afterwards you tell people the character was Black. Or Asian or gay.
It worked for the Harry Potter lady with Dumbledore.
Unless you were trying to do something else ...
... which you probably shouldn't be doing ...
What else is there to say except “liberalism is a mental disorder”?
sounds like the editor is an Anglophobe. Include the character and sue the editor for bullying, intimidation and racial harassment if he rejects the manuscript because of characters
Meet your new masters: the dictatorial fascists who tell you how to think.
Understand why they love m*slims so much? Both are dictatorial fascists.
“Black male writers can only include black male characters.”
no no no!
ONLY white hetro males are culturally and racially insensitive. Everyone else can do whatever the eff they want
Nick Cole’s experience already confirmed that the major publishers (Harper Collins in this case) are already converged. This is just another “logical” leap the converged take. Eventually it will be he can’t be published at all because he is a white-man....then because he is a man.
Who would they make into the bad guys? Certainly wouldn't make the bad guy a Big Business black guy....unless they really Uncle Tom'ed him up.
No black characters in your novel? Racist!
Black characters in your novel? Racist!
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