America’s tiresome bore?

Why agree with the patronising, self-righteous turd? Even if you do dislike your father he/she/it is being incredibly rude.

Most trafficking is a myth. Those that are ‘trafficked’ are almost always voluntary illegal immigrants. There are desperate and depressed people in all industries and people with drug problems and abusive backgrounds in all walks of life. Your view of strippers (most dancers don’t take their clothes off) and…

Yes, I watched it. We had to go (a mixed group of men and women, young and old) to see it at a secret location, escorted by security for fear of attack by feminists. This was the third venue, the two others had pulled out due to intimidation and pressure from feminist action.

If you want to write about anything specific research is a good idea if you want it to seem lifelike. If that isn’t your goal you can ignore that. There are no hard and fast rules.

Fiction writers invent stories to amuse themselves and other people. They don’t appropriate anything and they don’t speak for anyone other than themselves, even if they appoint themselves as a spokesman for a group. They can use any raw material they want to create a story without reference to anyone or without the…

Given that you believe in cultural appropriation I have a strong suspicion the paper isn’t quite what you say it is.

How the hell is someone wearing something you like to wear connected to generational trauma, missing and murdered women, toxic water and inadequate housing on reserves, addiction and suicide. Do you honestly have no idea how hysterical you sound?

“I don’t necessarily think that white authors should refrain from writing about people of colour, or other marginalized peoples, but there is definitely a disconnect from said people of colour’s actual, real-life experiences. If you’re white and you want to tell these stories, you had better do your research, get…

“It’s okay to write about people that are different from you. It’s not okay to pretend that in so doing you are making the world a better place.” Why not? Surely few writers think they are making the world a worse place by their efforts. They hope that the enjoyment they give to readers will make the world better in…

“MORE IMPORTANTLY, people of Indigenous descent can come over and tell you ‘Hey, you’re a dick’,” you can tell them to fuck off.

So, if they produce the ‘wrong’ sort of art they should be silenced? Sounds like intimidation and censorship to me.

“Somewhere along the way the writer’s mantra of “Write what you know” seems to have been lost.” Because it is a bad mantra. Art is more imagination than reality.

“White people, by stealing these cultures, erase the people they belong to.” Nonsense. You can’t steal a culture any more than you can steal a language and writing about a group from the outside doesn’t stop that group writing about themselves from first-hand experience.

“White people steal the culture and art of racialized communities and make money off it while gaining critical acclaim for cultural practices that white people punished and forbade in the recent past.” You cannot steal a culture. Cultures don’t have owners. You are getting dangerously close to racism and trying to box…

“From Kylie Jenner being praised for box braids while Black girls are suspended from school for wearing them. “ Jenner is not at school. At worst that could be racism. That doesn’t mean Jenner should be prevented or even criticised for wearing her hair like that.

What creative input? The writer is the creative one and can write about whoever he or she wishes.

“Assuming we’re talking about writers with comparable talent and access to being published, the white conceptualization of the Black experience will always rely on sensationalism.” Why?

“cultural appropriation is just as fundamental, and an equally damaging influence on the world, but it manages to exist in this massive blind spot.”

“This is my concern too. How accurate can a White person’s imaginings of Black experience be? And isn’t the risk of misrepresentation of that experience important in deciding who should write about what?”