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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=shan1212][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Imani Gandy needs better friends or something. She is coming  across poorly not only in terms of character but as far as legal and other analysis. Yikes.[/quote]
Like all the others with the wrong take that Sonya is the victim, she hurls a grenade and announces she'll be muting the thread.  I think the content doesn't matter to some people. They know they can mine the outrage for clicks and a few new followers and people will eventually forget. Except there are a number of people (me included) who are completely obsessed with the story so there might be some backlash.[/quote]

I can give Imani a pass because Sonya purposely framed it as a white woman oppressing a WOC; she has a right to be triggered by that. Should she do more research? Sure, but anyone can say anything on Twitter. I stopped following her because she tweets so much, lol. She has over half a million tweets! So I didn't see this. [/quote]
No, I don't give people a pass for actively ignoring new information because it doesn't suit their narrative[/quote]

+1 These are writers for goodness sake. They are supposed to research, not offer blind support. I really think it messes with their credibility.

It seems like there are several race related issues here, that are being conflated, and are also obscuring the real issue for many people: the plagiarism. (And, for many the lying, gaslighting, backstabbing on top of it.)

[b]Race issue #1: Dorland thought Larson was her friend. POC say that too often white women try to latch on to them as token friends. My *guess* is that Dorland was really trying to latch on to Larson and friends for the writing community, and race didn't have anything to do with it. But, lots of women of color can't get past the fact that Dorland thought she was Larson's friend, and ignored the part where Larson egged Dorland on because it's not the POC's responsibility -  or she would be subject to white women tears. [/b]

Race issue #2: Larson wrote the piece with a white-savior character, which means that presumably she thought Dorland was racist, either knowingly or not. Obviously all white women have this issue as we learn about our privilege and what aggressions or microaggressions we have blatantly or inadvertently committed. Many people assume that Dorland went after Larson due to this characterization. To many on Team Larson, this is not her motivation due to the timeline. Also, Dorland   expressed being an outsider - and she was very outside of this group, which she realized and confronted them about, and for many people reading this that fact motivated her.

Race issue #3: Dorland's pursuing this is an attempt to take down a minority writer, which is bad and outright racist. But, many people looking at it with the plagiarism at the forefront have said she behaved exactly as someone being gaslighted behaves. That assumes that she is not doing it due to Larson's race, but that it's an emotional reaction.

Another interesting facet of this being called a race issue is that many people on Twitter are bemoaning the fact that white women are piling on this angle, which the very act of is that placating, or playing, of women of color. It's just virtue signaling. Again, can you untangle that from the fact that we're talking about a very exclusive writing community. You're either in or your out. That really seems to be at the heart of it all.

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Also, if you don't want her to be your friend, don't lie to her and call her your friend???? It's clear from the correspondences that Sonya totally, unforgivably led her on. She was effusive in her communiques with her (that we see), literally using the word friend and friendship multiple times, calling her my dear, praising her, telling her to trust her. That's just straight-up duplicitous behavior. You can reject someone's friendship or advances gracefully and non-controversially. This clearly did not happen here.

Did none of these people go through the phase in high school where being labeled fake was no joke the worst insult ever?[/quote]

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