Let's talk Privilege

[tanndell]

Two rants in a month?  I'm on a roll.  But I believe that I genuinely have something to say about the recent outrage regarding a certain fic set in Haiti in the spn_j2_bigbang.  Again, it's something that's been intensely discussed and fantastic points about privilege, racism and ignorance have been highlighted, but as a FoC there are responses

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[bwinter]

Here from Metafandom, and I appreciate immensely that yous aid it - especially point 2. I've seen far too much of "only people of this culture should be allowed to write this culture", and far too little of people pointing out that this attitude contributes to the problem of "disappearing" minority cultures from the cultural mainstream - after all, most of the cultural mainstream is written by representatives of the majority culture, the simplest reason being because there's more of them. I've gone countless times from picking up a European book set in a far-away locale and culture or a minority culture in Europe to seeking out that culture's books - the textbook example would be going from childhood Kipling stories to books written by Indian writers.

The answer can never be to close our eyes and ignore everyone who is different.

[zorana84]

lol I realised I pimped but never commented but this is the problem with talking out our posts beforehand hee! I'm still waiting for the fandom to post something about the fabulous race!fail in the episode itself tho..I mean come on IT IS FUCKING GANESH