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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This twitter thread from Joshua Luna really gets at the heart of what bothered me about Larson retreating behind race once she was exposed:

https://twitter.com/Joshua_Luna/status/1446215316011356165

Dorlan wasn't a white saviour. She donated her kidney anonymously and did not choose its recipient. It didn't become a race issue until a white-passing woman made it one.[/quote]

And annoyingly, Larson has basically succeeding in casting this as a race issue and casting Dorland as a white savior even though nothing Dorland has ever actually done justifies this. [b]But I've seen multiple POC writers on Twitter who obviously don't know any of these people personally respond to this story by buying into this white savior narrative, and I think it's really troubling.[/b] I have no doubt that these writers have experienced racism and white saviorism in their own lives, but Dorland is not an appropriate stand in for that narrative. I've seen her called a Karen, compared to to white women who dominate conversations, as being the epitome of "white womens tears", a situation in which white women halt or co-opt conversations about race by weaponizing their emotions. None of that is what happened here at all. Those are real phenomena, just don't apply here. But lots of POC are buying into it and Larson and Ng have effectively convinced them that Dorland is just like all those white women they've dealt with in the past. But she's not!

I have no doubt that something in the way Dorland talked about her kidney donation in that group reminded Larson of white saviorism. But she should have been able to recognize how the situation as different from those past experiences, and to separate them in her own mind. Instead, she just conflated the two and, by writing her fictional story, made them one in the same.

There's no cause of action for this, but I think the worst thing Larson did to Dorland is use her fictional story to make Dorland's kindness and generosity in donating her kidney into something nefarious. Imagine if someone took the nicest thing you'd ever done, the thing you could point to when you were unsure if your life mattered, and someone made it offensive and racist.

Dorland's feelings about her kidney donation must be so caught up with this stuff with Larson now. And why?? Why would you destroy someone's one purely good act just because you find them annoying? That's cruelty, and it's way worse than the plagiarism in my mind. It's like Larson (and Ng, based on those texts) couldn't stand the thought of Dorland feeling proud of this genuinely selfless act she committed. That tells you a LOT about Larson and Ng, and very little about Dorland.[/quote]

I've actually seen way more white women jumping onto the white savior narrative, and the people who are pushing back against that tend to be POC. POC actually know what racism looks and feels like, and can smell the BS.[/quote]

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