Why Everyone’s Talking About American Dirt - Oprah's new book club pick that she'll regret

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stuffandthings dijo:
I love watching wokeness witch burnings. There's nothing they love more than eating their own.
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The author seems to have some SJW tendencies, but I loathe this attempted trend in fiction (that seems to have taken hold in YA fiction and a couple of other sub-genres) to restrict what an author can or can't write about due to their immutable characteristics. They're at race and gender now, they're demanding books only tell the 'right' narratives about minorities and historical times. They're right on the borderline of asking for any LGB characters to be written by an author who has submitted a picture of them sucking cock/eating muff for proof that they have the 'authority' to do so.

It's all so very tiresome, it highlights just how divisive indentity politics and its most vocal adherents are, and it tries to deny any idea of shared humanity by instead claiming that there's absolutely no way a human can exhibit enough empathy to understand what it's like to be specific people of colour/a woman/trans/everything else they want to add on. And considering the people doing the most complaining, it seems clear it's a massive case of projection over their inability to consider the world from anyone else's point of view.
 
A couple of observations:

1. The same people criticizing the author for identifying as white four years ago are probably the same people who have no problem with women who identified as men four years ago.

2. The phrase people seem to be latching onto is the author’s use of the phrase “faceless brown mass” in the afterword. This same afterword, according to the article, has the author wishing that the book was written by someone browner than her, which is just a stupid statement to make as all it does is open the door for people to agree with you. It sounds like she used the afterword to justify her authorship, and if she didn’t do that, the controversy around this book wouldn’t be nearly as strong.
 
The writer could've easily watched one of those shows on National Geographic about border hoppers lol, because if your entire family is killed by a cartel, you can claim asylum lol
 
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I thought for sure this thread was going to be about American Dad and thought people were finally elevating it as art, but I guess not. :(
 
She mentioned in an interview her husband was an undocumented immigrant and that that is her personal connection to writing it.

"I dont even know how to divorce that from the person who I am. It's been such a big experience in my life that it influences the way I think about everything. But my husband is from Ireland, and so his experiences as an undocumented immigrant, while terrifying, were nothing compared to what they may have been were he Latino or Muslim. He's white. He's educated. He is super handsome. [Laughs.] He is a member of the most beloved ethnic immigrant community, arguably, in this country. People love the Irish. I mean, they can't get enough of them."
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So he's an even bigger asshole for coming over illegally and flouting the law because it would have been a lot easier for him to immigrate legally, is what I'm getting from this. Unless he was also a convicted felon in Ireland and she conveniently left that part out.

Considering I know people who have gone through the expense and paperwork to come over legally, including some of those oh so hated and discriminated browns who don't speak English as a first language, I'm not sympathetic.

Every so often we get these stupid polls and articles about how Dems ackchyually totally don't want open borders, but then we have countless instances of them defending and celebrating illegal immigration and wailing and gnashing their teeth over any kind of immigration law enforcement.

Spoiler alert: if you want no consequences for illegal immigration, you are a de-facto supporter of open borders. It doesn't matter if you don't call it that, that's what you fucking want.

The typical cannibalization by the woke crowd is just the cherry on the top of the propaganda shit sundae.
 
“faceless brown mass” lol as if everyone in Mexico is brown, has she ever even been there? People in a town like Acapulco who own bookstores and get a nice paycheck for being journalists aren't your typical illiterate, tortilla munching, fence-hopping mestizo wetbacks.
 
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Los Angeles Times on Twitter

“'American Dirt' publisher vows to increase Latinx staff, published authors https://t.co/2sKvyrXsLu”
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Lol so she lied

- A group of Latinx activists met on Monday with officials at Macmillan, the international parent company of Flatiron Books, which published “American Dirt,” to deliberate over steps the publisher could take to increase Latino representation in the industry.
- Among the meeting attendees were Bob Miller and Don Weisberg, presidents of Flatiron Books and Macmillan, respectively; Amy Einhorn, the editor of “American Dirt”; representatives of Oprah Winfrey; and authors and #DignidadLiteraria founders David Bowles and Gurba.
- #DignidadLiteraria and Presente.org, an online Latinx organizing group, released a statement detailing the “unprecedented commitments” Macmillan made after the two-hour meeting. (see tweet in cut)
- The publisher made commitments to “substantially increasing Latinx representation across Macmillan, including authors, titles, staff and its overall literary ecosystem” as well as “developing an action plan to address these objectives within 90 days.”
- Macmillan also said it would “regroup within 30 days with #DignidadLiteraria and other Latinx groups to assess progress.”
- According to Bowles, Macmillan officials conceded during the meeting that Cummins had not received death threats. When Flatiron Books President Bob Miller announced in a statement that they were canceling the book tour, they cited “safety” concerns over “threats of physical violence.”
 
Jesse Singal wrote an article (and some tweets) about the kerfuffle, and the general cancel culture bullshit of publishing nowadays.

Would you be surprised at all to find out that numerous critics apparently didn't read the book, or read so poorly they missed entire plot points they then used to attack the author and her work? I sure wasn't!
 
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