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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh great, now Lithub is weighing in today and doubling down on the white woman tears. I seriously want to burn down the entire mainstream literary establishment right now. I will go out of my way to tell everyone I know to stop buying their books. So, is it fine for a POC to plagiarize a white woman? It seems a resounding YES. The only issue here is that Dawn didn't quietly oblige.

An excerpt:

"For me, Dorland’s claims conjure memories of white women abusing the legal system to protect their own privilege. As one scholar observed, history contains endless examples of white women weaponizing their tears and feminine fragility. We know some white women abuse the criminal justice system to threaten and intimidate people of color. But we often forget the history of white women abusing the civil system to achieve equally as pernicious ends. Scholars have studied this issue, with interesting research interrogating white women’s allegations of intentional infliction of emotional distress.

Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress (IIED) is a civil claim that provides compensation for the intentional infliction, by extreme and outrageous conduct, of severe emotional distress. In these claims, plaintiffs, like Dorland, must prove that the defendant’s conduct “goes beyond all possible bounds of decency, and is regarded as atrocious, and utterly intolerable in a civilized community.”"

[url]https://lithub.com/dorland-v-larson-on-the-legal-disputes-at-the-heart-of-bad-art-friend/[/url][/quote].

I would not have expected otherwise. LitHub is one of the voices of the literary establishment.

If LitHub does not find this to be an issue of race, it then has to turn a harsh and critical lens on its core audience and supporters, and they just aren't going to do that. It is better for LitHub to throw up a flimsy explanation that everyone sees for the sham it is than criticize LitHub's audience. It was the white Chunky Monkeys who pushed for that narrative, and many POC are angry about that, but LitHub caters to a small, mostly white, literary establishment audience and that's who this is written for.[/quote]

I'm pp and I find this intellectually dishonest, which is why it's so upsetting. But, like Dawn, I'm naive in this probably. I also find it problematic because race inequity is a real issue and when you are dishonest and hypocritical it risks so much harm to people who really are being abused by a white person or system. It's basically creating a double standard: POC can steal from white people, but the reverse is not sanctioned. That message will burn people. [/quote]

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