| re: Irony incarnate | |
| Posted by: ryhog 10:46 pm EDT 08/26/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Irony incarnate - Chromolume 09:50 pm EDT 08/26/20 | |
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| I can only speak for myself (obviously) but I took the comment to be related to what Lynn said about her perception of what the work celebrated then and now, not to the work itself. In other words, I took it to mean that she was describing the show from a white perspective that did not (and could not) articulate how it was perceived by POC. That, to me, is what the notion of white privilege is all about: assuming that one can say what "we" celebrate etc. (And I think the same thing can and does happen with other groups that are not racially described.) Now to the broader point, I think a writer writes what they want to say, and puts it out there. Others can then react to it from whatever experience they bring to the table and that reaction, by definition, will evolve over time. I think some could have a discussion about the substance you are looking for, which would not necessarily exclude some who don't think that a white person can write about the POC experience (or a straight person about gays, or a gentile person about Jews, or Danes about the Portuguese, etc etc). But I also don't think a white person can dismiss a POC's comments as "totally off and uncalled for" in that discussion. |
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