Yep! Just mentioned this upthread. White people used to being entertained by black pain, and walking out of it feeling good about themselves.

Well now, lets remember that White people are used to going to see entertainments about black pain and trauma their ancestors helped to cause, and walking out of those entertainments feeling good about themselves as people, thanks to that ol’ White Savior Narrative, that gets stuck into every story dealing with White…

White people love to do that false equivalence shit, and still don’t get how ridiculous they sound.

“To go to Slave Play and expect to walk out with her feelings unbruised and unbothered”

“I don’t wanna hear that white people are the fucking plague all the time!”

“How the fuck are you not a marginalized member of this goddamn society?” Well the fact that you walked into a play directed by a black man, decided to lambaste him and walked out with your teeth kinda shows this. Oh the fact no matter how many fucked up things happen to you, not one white person will deem you a…

The motherfucking precious stones on this woman ...

“She then notes that she’s been a victim of rape, false arrests and being told that “as a single woman I’m not good enough to fucking raise [my kids]” after having her children taken away, then adds, “How the fuck am I not a fucking marginalized member of this goddamn society?”

“So why did you leave your last job?”

This is how you know it’s pure racism in it’s most potent form. No typical movie theater employee has the time for that nonsense with the usual stuff they have to deal with.

From: Adam Tucker

Please don’t overlook the possibility (probability) that Adam is stupid, lying, AND racist.

There are only three reasons that anyone would conflate blackness with undereducation, laziness, unemployment or dope dealing:

This is some beautiful shade from Nelson:

That these people took this remark as a disamplification of women’s genre fiction or whatever is hugely indicative of their egos. There’s plenty of value in YA fiction. There is no reason adults can’t or shouldn’t read it. However I don’t think there’s much place for it as a book to spark discussion and critical…

Jennifer Weiner has always made me uncomfortable, like she was an immature, self absorbed mean girl hiding in plain sight. I never understood the appeal or the acclaim. So her behavior in this incident did not surprise me, sadly. At least her apology was not the worst of the bunch.

I rarely read YA and made a note of all these names to make sure I never touch any of theirs. Excellent repping of their genre. A+.

I haven’t read any books by Dessen or any of the female YA authors listed. Now I will never read their books. Congrats ladies. Who’s the “fucking bitch” now?

She couldn’t even name the person she bullied. I’d give it a C-.

In my experience, mean girls are mean girls for life.