"Writing is not the federal parliament or a company’s board of directors. Improving its representativeness will not improve its quality qua literature. There is no guarantee that a novel written about racism by a black author will be better than one by a white author, because “better” in fiction is not a matter of who tells the story but…
"Writing is not the federal parliament or a company’s board of directors. Improving its representativeness will not improve its quality qua literature. There is no guarantee that a novel written about racism by a black author will be better than one by a white author, because “better” in fiction is not a matter of who tells the story but how the story is told."
The more I read of Helen Dale, the more I love.
It's one thing for dreary Marxist racialism to infect philosophy and politics, those are more battlegrounds and are fertile fields for all kinds of nonsense—but trying to strap art onto some Procrustean bed to better showcase your ideology renders the work stillborn and suffocates real creativity.
Fuck the thought police! No segregation of the imagination!
"Writing is not the federal parliament or a company’s board of directors. Improving its representativeness will not improve its quality qua literature. There is no guarantee that a novel written about racism by a black author will be better than one by a white author, because “better” in fiction is not a matter of who tells the story but how the story is told."
The more I read of Helen Dale, the more I love.
It's one thing for dreary Marxist racialism to infect philosophy and politics, those are more battlegrounds and are fertile fields for all kinds of nonsense—but trying to strap art onto some Procrustean bed to better showcase your ideology renders the work stillborn and suffocates real creativity.
Fuck the thought police! No segregation of the imagination!
Thank-you kindly.
Cheers!