AVOIDING RACISM FOR WRITERS—COFFEE, HONEY & OTHER COLOR DON’TS

https://www.ylva-publishing.com ^ | May 29, 2018 / / Alex K. Thorne

[ken in texas]

- ... and developing a kimchi addiction. -

So she's lecturing us while being guilty of cultural appropriation. ;-)

[Seruzawa]

[sourcery]

Words are not “racist” just because some fake woke maroon claims they are.

[BenLurkin]

“Most decent, thoughtful human beings are guilty of racism.”

Well, when the term is used as irresponsibly as it is these days.

[antidemoncrat]

Pretty soon there will be only three words that aren’t racist ... “Vote for Democrats”.

[bk1000]

Oh stop it!

Blacks describe each other all the time using descriptive words for various shades of color. Color seems to be a major factor in their culture. Everything is racist, then nothing is racist.

[P-Marlowe]

When is this nonsense going to stop?

[mewzilla]

Thank God for backlists...

[Steely Tom]

I was reading Faulkner's The Sound And The Fury to my wife, but had to stop because of all the n-words.

Same with the collection of Flannery O'Connor short stories, both of which I paid money for on Amazon Kindle. I just didn't feel comfortable constantly repeating that word out loud, even in the privacy of our bedroom.

They going to cancel those books? How long 'till they do?

[Migraine]

This is serious stuff.

I’ll go have some buckwheat cakes while I study up on it.

[mewzilla]

Publishing houses have sensitivity readers now. Often in place of editors.

In case you were wondering why so much dreck is making it to print these days.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Imagine if we compared white skin to after-dinner mints, yoghurt, or boiled rice.

Apparently sugar butt as never read about skin being creamy or pale as milk or white as salt.

Get over yourself.

[DesertRhino]

“it’s usually unconscious, and it’s often hard to keep track of evolving language and social movements, of phrases in the vernacular that were perfectly acceptable ten years ago but are now taboo “

“The term “taboo” comes from the Tongan tapu or Fijian tabu”

Dumbass.

[Red Badger]

I just read Huckleberry Finn...................In the bathroom..............

[Army Air Corps]

The reason is that these words fetishize brown skin. Imagine if we compared white skin to after-dinner mints, yoghurt, or boiled rice. It’s ridiculous. In the same way, to imply that brown people are “edible” objectifies them, which is the last thing you want to do.

I hate to break it to the author, but white skin in literature has been described in food terms. Comparing a woman's skin as being like Devonshire cream, for example. Food colours are accessible because food is part of a common experience - it is useful as a common point of reference.

[Flick Lives]

Thanks to social media, minority groups have voices and are able to talk about what feels comfortable, and how they want to be represented. No one is expected to know everything, or immediately be good at representation.

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Go f*ck yourself.

[Red Badger]

All over her like white on rice!.....................

[bk1000]

“When is this nonsense going to stop?”

Only when it fails to work. In other words, when WE put an end to it.

[Steely Tom]

When is this nonsense going to stop?

Good question. All I can say is there was a hell of a lot of nonsense going around in the late '60s and early '70s, and it just sort of got subsumed in a larger tide of nonsense that took us to Ronald Reagan, after which it subsided for a while.