I don’t think it’s that deep, she’s trying to defend her client any way she can.  

Josh is close to Jared, and it’s been a financial windfall for Josh to have his brother in the White House. As per the NYTimes:

Or, if the person I’m in love with has some toxic family members, I say so. When my brother went through a phase that flirted with some real misogyny I called him out to his face and to other people.  And if I were a public figure, you can be damn sure that I wouldn’t stick to anodyne “we disagree about some things”…

Clearly, your reading comprehension and analytic abilities are somewhat lacking. Bless your heart.

Oh hi, Kathryn Lynn Davis. Glad you could make it to the comments section.

You’re the one assuming facts not in evidence. For the most elementary point, calling a book racist is not the same as calling a person a racist. But I doubt there’s enough grasp of nuance in your limited worldview to allow you to get that.

WOW, you are your own follower - kind of self-indulgent.

If you read the passages from the book that Milan cites, the passages are objectively racist — and, at a minimum, stereotypical. Claims of immersing oneself into a culture does not protect/prevent you from writing something racist. Racism does not need to be intentional to be racist.

Lighten up, Francis.

a person who was born and raised of another race can just claim to “immerse” themselves into another race/culture for “six years”  and all of a sudden be free from criticism from people who were actually raised within that culture/race??

Co-signed, I came here to say this specifically.

None of this surprises me. My wife and are friends with a couple of RWA members, and were friends with another. As writers ourselves (non-romance) we’ve been to a handful of RWA events with our RWA friends and there is an odd sort of toxic pleasantness that the writers seem to exhibit towards one another. The way they…

Old and white here. I wanted to crawl under the desk when I came to the realization that they choose the side of a silly bitch that “immersed herself” in Chinese culture over a person of Chinese ethnicity.

This was a very good read. Thank you, Kelly.

“immersed herself into the Chinese culture for six years before she even began to write the aforementioned novel.”

I can’t help it. I just can’t.

he now apparently doesn’t even have to register as a sex offender.

And if their hymens were intact, this shit-stain-in-a-toilet would be saying, "Their hymens were not intact so we have no idea who else they had sex with. There's no evidence to say THIS man sexually abused them."

As researchers have put it, “An examination of the hymen is not an accurate or reliable test of a previous history of sexual activity, including sexual assault.”

Reading this sincerely hurts my stomach. You guys, I know this is a non murder blog - but if anyone touched my daughters I would straight up murder.