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[quote=Anonymous]I went deep on this on twitter last night. I read some of the full text manuscripts and in one place one of the "chunky monkey" testers (named Alison) suggested that Sonya should post her story in the GrubStreet Writers of Color that way if Dawn came after her they would, per the text, "Draaaaaaaaag her." So not only was the plagiarism real, as evidenced before, the deliberate tactics to tinge the plagiarized author's objections with racism is what's shocking. I can't believe that was not front and center in the NYTimes story because it's really terrible. I think it sets everyone back a mile. I have to say, I was curious if DCUM would have more defenders for Larsen because of some of the mean girl shit that happens on this site but you all seem mostly aligned with me. We probably all have a friend like Dawn, we've probably all been Dawn to some degree and we've probably all been Sonya in terms of the mean girl texting - which might start as feeling somehow uncomfortable with a friends' posting, where any social awkwardness, need, or obnoxiousness is just amplified x100000000. And the irritation can turn into a vent, and then the pile on begins and suddenly the injured parties - those who felt they couldn't tell Dawn to her face that they found something "off" about her motives and the way she was expecting congratulations, just became extremely, terribly vicious. That itself crosses a line I feel like most of us (maybe? hopefully?) would not make with someone in our real lives. But then to actually steal her work, post to multiple other authors that you are doing it, and may or may not stop doing it ("I know I should change her letter which I grabbed verbatim, but it was just too [i]good[/I]") I mean that's all there is too it. To write a derivative of someone's life is something that can reasonably be called art but what Sonya did is plagiarism, then encouraged by her friends, many of whom are white themselves, she deliberately positioned herself to look like someone who was injured by white tears. The entire writing group sounds so self-congratulating, insular and just fat off their own quasi famous, it's revolting. Celeste Ng comes across terribly - she's the only one I know of in the group. I have loved literature all my life, but I can't really find literature I like these days and maybe this is why. Who wants to be led on an emotional journey by people with shit for hearts?  [/quote]

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