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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So what is the line between just being terrible and plagiarizing?[/quote]

Funny you ask that. I am one of the published authors who posted above and i just so happened to be turning in a MS this week and I ran this by my editor — what would you think if i included a verbatim private FB post in my book, and didn’t tell the original author? Would that be cool.

She laughed hard, and then said, “But seriously, no. Don’t do that.”

No legit author in their right mind is confused about this.[/quote]

But then why are SO many writers on Twitter brushing this off or justifying it? It honestly blows my mind. I thought plagiarism was like the number one thing to NOT do, as writers?[/quote]
Because they are all connected in some way and/or they have similar shitty skeletons[/quote]

This, plus the race angle. So many people engaging in a knee jerk response here where they side with a woman of color over a white woman. This was especially bad right after the article came out, especially when Ng was pushing this angle hard and several other prominent writers (including Roxane Gay) made this into a narrative about race. Which it really, really isn't. There are race elements and class elements and status elements and they are all working in interesting way. But this is not a situation where a white woman imposed on a woman of color. At all! It's offensive to anyone who has actually been in that dynamic to interpret it that way here.

I have seen several writers I follow say something along the lines of "I would like to remove myself from all aspects of the kidney gate situation please" in the last couple days. Because they jumped on the bandwagon early, then more info came out to make those initial reactions look rash at best, and then as it drags on a lot of people have realized this is really not something anyone should have been debating casually on Twitter at all. A real collective fail here.[/quote]

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