lol anecdata, too bad none of them sunk in

ok can you explain why it's better to have the hero of a story about racism be someone who a) isn't affected by it and b) benefits from it

lol no, the entire point is that she chose to give this book a white hero and that's the reason it's remained popular

because historically speaking, white writers have put themselves front and center of racist narratives and white academics have made their stories foremost in the curricula? like this is 101 level stuff here, like maybe bone up on this stuff instead of serving up this colbert realness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

yes because women writing male characters is exactly the same as a history of white people making themselves the center of stories about racism

or, white dudes can't handle a book they like being criticized for any reason whatsoever

lol let's put lots of words in my mouth because you can't actually respond to the criticism, it's almost like we can promote works written by black authors instead of the same old tired white savior bullshit

lmfao as if schindler's list didn't undergo lots of criticism for having a german protagonist, maybe look up claude lanzmann or smth

how is it idiotic to point out that people who haven't experienced racism and benefit from it are less qualified to tell stories about racism

lol someone gets really mad whenever it's pointed out that there may be better people to tell stories about racism

i wonder if the av club will ever address her racism

also racist as shit

it's almost like there were lots of stories about racism created 50 years ago by authors and featuring characters that actually suffered from the effects of racism

ok let's take the defensiveness down a notch maybe, and stop saying things i didn't say? esp since david crosby did exactly what i described and dismissed the whole genre instead of just saying he didn't like it so yeah people are going to react badly to that

i'll admit abrams doesn't inspire confidence but we've got kasdan and kathleen kennedy always seems to have a firm handle on things. plus abrams lives for star wars so i feel like he might rise to the occasion better than usual

i mean we've seen like two minutes of footage tho

yep, lucas doing is own thing definitely worked out perfectly

Warner Bros. to give that Green Lantern movie thing another try

sorry gerald :(

lol your face