I'm glad you liked them! (I don't know if "liked" is quite the right word, heh)
It strikes me that there is this sort of disproportionate reward/back-patting which in many cases gives white writers a gold star for doing stuff they should be doing anyway (like reflecting reality by including non-white characters) and which is expected as a matter of course of non-white writers and also reinforces the idea that we don't need to approach the concept of "good" versus "bad" cultural appropriations as problematic.
It's like... You battled racism today! Go you! And not cheering on the zillions of people who battle it every day and are never acknowledged for it.
To be less flippant, because I don't think the white writers shouldn't get gold stars. I think, instead, everyone should get gold stars.
Um, I got a sense on the panel that there was this feeling, as long as you get permission from someone in the culture, that makes it ok. Obviously, there was a lot of discussion about permission and who has the authority to give permission, but I keep feeling that's sort of going around the point, which is the power differential. Putting aside all question of permission and authority and etc., I don't think any kind of permission can ever make up for the power differential. But, um, I'm not sure if anyone else thinks so.
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It strikes me that there is this sort of disproportionate reward/back-patting which in many cases gives white writers a gold star for doing stuff they should be doing anyway (like reflecting reality by including non-white characters) and which is expected as a matter of course of non-white writers and also reinforces the idea that we don't need to approach the concept of "good" versus "bad" cultural appropriations as problematic.
It's like... You battled racism today! Go you! And not cheering on the zillions of people who battle it every day and are never acknowledged for it.
To be less flippant, because I don't think the white writers shouldn't get gold stars. I think, instead, everyone should get gold stars.
Um, I got a sense on the panel that there was this feeling, as long as you get permission from someone in the culture, that makes it ok. Obviously, there was a lot of discussion about permission and who has the authority to give permission, but I keep feeling that's sort of going around the point, which is the power differential. Putting aside all question of permission and authority and etc., I don't think any kind of permission can ever make up for the power differential. But, um, I'm not sure if anyone else thinks so.