A Politically Correct Apartheid Denies Common Humanity, Possibility of Literature

Epoch Times ^ | March 4, 2021 | Theodore Dalrymple

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A young Dutch writer called Marieke Lucas Rijneveld has recently withdrawn from the task of translating into Dutch the poem that Amanda Gorman recited at President Biden’s inauguration because of public criticism by a black Dutch activist, Janice Deul, to the effect that the task should have been entrusted to “a writer who—just like Gorman—is a spoken word artist, young, female and unapologetically black.”

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A Politically Correct Apartheid Denies Common Humanity, Possibility of Literature
https://www.theepochtimes.com/a-politically-correct-apartheid-denies-common-humanity-possibility-of-literature_3721425.html

[alexander_busek]

because of public criticism by a black Dutch activist, Janice Deul, to the effect that the task should have been entrusted to “a writer who—just like Gorman—is a spoken word artist, young, female and unapologetically black.”

Rhetorical fireworks! Just imagine the outcry had she written, "unapologetically white."

Also, shouldn't the task have been entrusted to "a writer who - just like Gorman - is also American?

After all, isn't being an American also a part of the young girl's cultural background and identity?

Regards,

[bk1000]

Start telling these black “activists” to shut the heck up. They are loud, but not an authority. Be loud back at them. Don’t be afraid. They back down when you stand up to them, just like any other bully.