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Originally Posted by hildea
A thread in the "Politics and Religion" subforum took a turn into this topic. I'll answer a couple of questions from that thread here. I'm paraphrasing the other poster instead of quoting them, to be sure I don't accidentally cross the limits of what can be posted where.
Milan has explained her view at length in her response to Davis' complaint, starting at the bottom of page 2. |
Thanks for the shared link.
Just read it, and what I took from it was that she is arguing that, since is a writer, she should be able to go to Davis personally and tell her she's in the wrong and that her book is showing racism because of stereotyping without it being considered an attack or being confronted by the RWA about it.
In the second part she is showing how she disagreed with Davis and showed how other authors write scenes she approves of by showing the links of the right way to do it.
I get where she's coming from that there tends to be annoying stereotypes in a lot of books - and movies! - about different races, but as Davis responded to her initially she hadn't intended to be insulting when she did write it.
To then take that to Twitter and get people boycotting the author, including issues with her publishing business and past writing career, is some of the Twitter drama I was speaking of.
After this she issues a complaint against Milan for public attack, which gets her more boycotted and RWA under fire even further.
It's a never-ending cycle.
Again, it doesn't help that RWA has had legit issues with racism in the past.