Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
This morning (Januay 27, 2020) on NPR I heard a white female novelist describe her difficulty in getting her novel published. The problem was not that her novel was uninteresting or badly written. Her problem was that one of the characters was black. Unbeknownst to her, it is now considered cultural imperialism or cultural trespassing—some such term—for a person with white skin to write about even fictional people of color.
Publishers liked her novel, but were afraid to publish it. They told the novelist that publishing her book would bring them charges of insensitivity toward blacks and be regarded as a sign of their disrespect of the maxim that only blacks can know about blacks. Her problem was not that she was writing insensitively about blacks, but that it is now considered insensitive for a white person to invade black culture by having a black character in a novel.
The novelist seemed to agree with this perspective. Her defense was that as she had lived with a black man for many years, she was familiar with blacks and thereby qualified to have a black character in her novel.
Another woman on the program said that the way publishers are dealing with this new problem is to send the manuscript to a “sensitivity checker” who can make suggestions that if implemented gives the book a “sensitivity approval.” She did say that even with this safeguard, the subjective nature of what is considered insensitive can still rise up and bite the publisher.
Thinking about this new constraint on the creativity of white writers, I realized that little of the great literature that we have could have been written under this rule. For example, Shakespeare could not have written Othello.
One wonders if this is a two-way street. Are black writers banned from having white characters in their novels? Would this also be cultural intrusion, trespassing or imperialism? Probably not. This seems to be yet another offense of which only white people can be guilty.
The program brought to mind what I had recently read about white professors and administrators at Cambridge University in England being assigned a person of color as their monitor to make certain that language, lectures, reading lists, and university policies did not offend a sensitive student of color.
The report did not say whether black professors and administrators at Cambridge have white monitors to prevent blacks from calling whites “racist,” “white supremacists,” and so on. If so, there will be big changes in “black studies” programs.
All of the constraints seem to be for whites only. They alone are marginalized and have their voices muzzled and creativity limited.
One assumes that feminists will want to get in on this and that this road also will be a one-way street. It will be gender imperialism or gender trespassing for male novelists to have female characters.
Just as whites are not blacks and cannot be trusted to write about blacks, men are not women and can’t be trusted to write about women.
University faculties punish whites for “insensitivity” toward people of color and punish white heterosexual males for “insensitivity” toward females. This happens whether the insensitivity was intended or simply in the mind of the offended. These same faculties host “women’s studies” and “black studies” in which white people are routinely described as “racist” and white heterosexual males as misogynists and rapists. I assume there are now “transgender studies” which has its own epithets to throw. What we are experiencing is the marginalization of the majority by minorities.
What will be the result of giving protective status to the violent language of anti-white, anti-male minorities while muzzling the majority? Why is there no public discussion of this dangerous fomenting of social disunity?
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The wife and I thoroughly enjoy a BBC production called “Midsommer Murders”, about a police detective who solves an unbelievable number of murders in a mostly rural fictional British county.
In the latest season, a staggering number of rural Brits are gay and/or black, East Indian, or Arabic. I doubt this reflects demographic reality much, but it certainly reflects the wokism PCR is talking about. It’s just nuts. The writing is still good, but this may be the last season for us.
It MAY be the last season? What are you, a Simp or an idiot?
my mother watches that show and when i was home for christmas i watched a few random episodeds from various seasons as well as the similar show Vera. murders has been around 20 years or something. as you say the first 10 years are all british people. but now every character is a trans-nigger homosexual drug addict. thoroughly distasteful and disgusting.
You better get your rayciss on because that’s what is being used on you.
With me, it’s not a racist issue. I remember being a kid back in the sixties thinking it was stupid to see Chuck Conners playing an Indian in a Western show when there are plenty of Natives who would be happy to play a part. I grew up around a lot of them and thought the Whites playing them on TV came across like buffoons. Likewise, I thought “Slumdog Millionaire” was an awesome movie – it would have been greatly diminished if Caucasians were playing the parts of East Indians.
It’s a wonderful world, or it used to be. It’s really sad that people have to make up shit because they can’t see that. Even worse is when they want me to believe their fantasies too.
the show(s) takes place in predominately rural england. so you would expect the characters/actors to be white (at least european). the fact you like to see injuns played injuns and punjabs play punjabs is a different point entirely.
All one has to do is observe “who owns Hollywood” and that they fear white gentile male power…
Let’s look at American “popular culture” and see how the white gentile heterosexual American male is portrayed and treated.
Today’s popular culture and the culture going back forty years or so has portrayed us white gentile males as bumbling idiots, controlled and insulted by, a know-it-all domineering “wife”, with snotty and bratty children insulting him at every turn.
Us adult white gentile males are not looked upon as leaders and protectors of society and their families as they once were, but are relegated to the lowest level of humanity, to be used and abused by everyone else.
It doesn’t stop there, Hollywood’s negative portrayal of white gentile males, with minorities being in positions of power and responsibility, the (inferior) white gentile male is always answering to a black superior, supervisor or leader, despite reality dictating otherwise.
The “education system” is no better, being geared for females, who have totally feminized the system, relegating boys to the status of being dysfunctional, to be drugged and even ostracized, just for being boys.
The condemnation and marginalization of us white gentile males is almost complete. It is long overdue to take back our rightful place in society. Start out by boycotting Hollywood and letting program sponsors know why…
Duly noted, but one example that goes against the trend is Last Man Standing, with Tim Allen, as a conservative white male businessman and father of three young adult ladies.
His original network dropped him and the shows writers like a politically incorrect hot potato.
Fox was wise enough to pick the show up and air it.
But yes, it’s a rare exception to the rule.
“Idiot box” for a valid reason.
Use with caution, especially with children.
Don’t forget WGN! Wait for it! WGN is in Chicago! LOL!
Another “you can’t make this shit up article”. Sensitivity? These niggers can’t fix a broken tail light – so Minneapolis will help them. From the Minneapolis Red Star newsrag:
Minneapolis police officers will no longer ticket motorists for broken headlights or turn signals, instead handing out vouchers to pay for vehicle repairs under a new department policy unveiled Wednesday.
Under the new policy, instead of writing a ticket, officers will now have the option of issuing drivers a voucher from the Lights On! program
partners with local organizations to promote economic self-sufficiency among lower income residents, according to its website. The vouchers can be redeemed at participating auto shops to cover the costs of services such as replacing a bulb from a rear taillight
“Fixing minor issues such as a broken brake light can go a long way toward breaking the cycle of poverty — individuals who ignore a fix-it ticket are at risk of having their license suspended,”
A 2018 Hennepin County Public Defender’s Office report found that more than half of motorists stopped citywide for equipment violations were black, even though blacks make up only about a fifth of the city’s population. The disparity was particularly glaring in the ethnically diverse neighborhoods of north Minneapolis, where the study found that 80% of drivers pulled over were black, compared with 12% who were white
http://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-police-to-no-longer-ticket-for-equipment-violations-under-new-policy/567406922/
Stupid fuckers would rather spend 400 bucks on a pair of shoes or a fucking sports team jacket instead of upkeep on their shit boxes on wheels. That or $2000 rims on their $1000 shit box. But yeah, it is because of racism and shit.
If they cannot keep an auto in working order they should not be on the street….just as if they cannot take care of themselves as adults why should they have their children fed in schools paid for by the rest of us……
It’s outrageous, next, they will be citing white couples for not having kids. The cop will have the option to impregnate the wife free of charge or pull the guy’s man card if she is not preggers by the citation court date.
Everyone should thank their lucky stars they don’t draw a gay cop.
Yes, it’s difficult to get a gyno to give a guy a pregnancy exam, much less get a letter for the judge. Ricky Gervais’ joke was too funny.
I think there will be some population control regulations put into place soon.
Let me know when they start fixing rust holes, transmissions and engine repairs. My ride is showing its age. Now on the real side. This crap has to stop. Unless I missed something, there are NO free rides. Someone out here is paying for this nonsense.
Good God, can’t we let darwinism thin the fuckers out.
All a “Fahrenheit 451” ploy to ban/destroy much of the great literature from our past. Just think of all the books that would never have been published. Even some of the great works of literature that HELPED the abolitionist cause, would never have made it to print.
Mark Twain in particular is a target.
He has been a regular target for decades….despite the fact that his portrayal of Jim as a decent guy just trying to get his freedom back, along with the efforts of a white kid to make that happen, most certainly DID influence lots of folks regarding the institution of slavery. And all because he uses the word “nigger.”
This is total bullshit. Don’t any of these people or entities have names? Pure work of fiction
Who is kidding who here, publishing company? The black protagonist isn’t going to offend the 15 “people of color” who read the novel. They’re worried about their main demographic who will buy this novel: Karen in suburbia who “needs to talk to the manager” and is perpetually offended on behalf of oppressed people everywhere. If they change the character to white and it does well enough to get a movie option, they’ll cast the character with a black person anyway. Obscenely clown-world behavior.
BTW? Lincoln Rhyme is a white man. I’ve not met a Jeffery Deaver fan that thought otherwise from reading his Rhyme novels, but Hollyweird cast him as black for movies and TV.
I don’t know why they would be offended – probably 80% of the blacks are illiterate anyway – they never pick-up a book.
blacks don’t read anyway so who gives a shit?
They can shove their sensitivity up their bung holes. Negroes ain’t numinous.
13/52
“…men are not women and can’t be trusted to write about women.”
Reminds me of this funny clip.
it won’t stop with marginalization.
Should mass violence start in the future, it will originate with the non white / darker population. If things get chaotic where the police / military aren’t handling the savages, as during the LA riots, then the white and probably Asian populations will slaughter them.
That would be payback time for the decades that especially the white population has put up with their shit and had the privilege of paying for their sorry asses to survive.
BTW – I do not include the many decent black and other minority populations in the description except to say they will also be slaughtering the savages because they’re just as sick and tired of their shit as other decent folks.
“many decent black and other minority populations in the description except to say they will also be slaughtering the savages because they’re just as sick and tired of their ”
I don’t see that happening. overall they cohere too well, and those that don’t cohere are few and far between and are mightily villainized by the vast majority of their population groups. when senate advisors tweet “we don’t have any room for blacks that don’t act black!” and are not deprecated in any manner that’s a good indicator of near universal cultural compliance.
People with things to protect are going to protect it themselves if all else fails to do the job.
Skin color has nothing to do with protecting what’s yours when some predator is trying to relieve you of your property. I know I’d shoot a white guy trying to steal my stuff, so why wouldn’t a black guy do the same?
I’ve put a gun to 2 thieves heads in the past and the only thing stopping me from blowing their brains out was the trouble I’d get into from the shit system. If they handed out awards for knocking off the shit in the society we wouldn’t be in this mess.
“I know I’d shoot a white guy trying to steal my stuff, so why wouldn’t a black guy do the same?”
you’re projecting your own ideas onto other people who as a group demonstrably don’t share those ideas. it’s common.
Are you black? If not, then how do you KNOW what they think. You keep making assertions that are pure bullshit.
What a fuck!!ng moran you are!!!!!!!!According to you I can’t understand anyone who isn;t exactly like me??!!
“I can’t understand anyone who isn;t exactly like me?”
more specifically, for some, understanding anyone who is not oneself is just irrelevant and null and void. human relationships are black box interactions – walk up, input in, output out, walk away. extreme rightists and libertarians and soloists are the best examples of this kind of thinking – observe that they find government of any kind completely irrelevant to anything that is important to themselves, because for them it is. also observe my reply below.
“how do you KNOW what they think”
by how they act.
“If they handed out awards for knocking off the shit in the society we wouldn’t be in this mess.”
sure, we wouldn’t be in THIS mess. we’d be in some other mess. what happens when someone decides you need to be knocked off?
In my entire life I’ve never harmed or cheated anyone. I give no one a reason to knock me off, so I’m not afraid of going without the completely useless gov’t service the cops provide.
You come up with the most inane shit.
SAO says…
“In my entire life I’ve never harmed or cheated anyone.”
Donkey says…
“Bullshit bitch.”
“”I give no one a reason to knock me off”
(to “Anonymous”: this, for example.)
and that makes you safe?
If you’re white, they want you dead because of that alone.
“If you’re white, they want you dead”
for many, that’s about the extent of their interracial relations.
I will not deny that this would be opening a persons self up to a huge risk. However, I have had three major incidents in my life where a black man has had my back and I respect them to this day. I would rather judge a person on his actions and personal value set than his color, nationality, looks or what ever. I’m not saying there aren’t cultural issues. I feel we must be careful to not let these elite ass wipes divide us like they have been.
Absolutely agree. I focus on predators, not skin color, but let’s be real – the black population is way more violent and with a much shorter fuse than anyone else I’m aware of. They will riot at the first sign of not getting their ‘entitlements’ or if they are inconvenienced in any way.
Stereotypes exist for a valid reason. They are created via observation of the real world.
“I would rather judge a person on his actions and personal value set than his color, nationality, looks or what ever.”
sure, you would. and some that you personally know might act similarly. but as a group they won’t, and you’ll have to respond accordingly.
So what is the solution to the division? It is not just a black/white issue. It may start there but, it will most likely mature to the point it includes other groups. What we are seeing in the system does not seem to be working. I see most of this ill will being created by a narrative and welfare system that is now feeding on itself. Cut out the snap card, bridge cards and price subsidies, guilt trips of slavery and see what happens. Let individuals stand on their own merits. Those that want to do violence to other folks threat them according.
Homogeny.
“It is not just a black/white issue. It may start there but, it will most likely mature to the point it includes other groups.”
actually, the rest of the world pretty much lives that way. “us. just us. only us.” is not just a jewish thing, it’s an almost universal tribal thing from baboons on up. “por la raza todo, fuera la raza nada” expresses it best, but the han and japanese live it best, and the indian hindu tribes are right behind them.
“So what is the solution to the division?”
there isn’t one. we western white americans have our “we hold these truths to be self-evident” but most of the rest of the world lives by “por la raza todo, fuera la raza nada.” and those who insist on tribal identity set the terms of engagement because they refuse any other mode of interaction. for example listen to modern american blacks – “justice is nothing more than a white construct meant to keep the black man down.” not only do they really truly think that, they determinedly insist upon it. there’s no answer to that but to respond accordingly.
the problem oldtimer is probability
In order for this to work blacks need to get their heads screwed on straight. This is a good start: http://www.wethoughttheywerewhite.tumblr.com
This racial shit is getting to the point of absurd. About 70 miles down the road from me is Syr. University. They have been going through this nonsense for a couple of months. A couple of months back there was supposedly some racial graffiti,and some paper or something circulated on social media. The latter was found to be false,and the responsible party for the graffiti was never caught. Low and behold the blacks raised holy hell,and demanded all sorts of financial and just because we are black other shit. The administration caved on every demand. Who is to say that is was not a bunch of blacks that did this? As they laughed at how the white administrators once again capitulated to their crying. Well….Shazam it has just happened again. With of course no idea of who did it. Must be what they got on behalf of us was not enough. We are our own worst enemy.
Jews do the same thing-vandalize their own facilities, and when they are caught, make excuses for their behavior stating that it can still be a learning experience. EVERY instance of vandalism at a synagogue has been perpetrated by their own people-jews.
So are books that have different genders (men and women) as characters to be written by tandem writers?
What about michael obama’s new book?
“but that it is now considered insensitive for a white person to invade black culture” Why the fuck are white people still allowing blacks and other undesirables to invade our goddamn culture? Sick of this shit
Looks like I stuck my finger in the socket on this one!
And if she didn’t have a black character in the book she’d be called a Nazi and white supremacist. White people can’t win on the left’s terms, it’s time we stop trying.
Does this mean Joos can no longer write scripts with white characters on them?
No? Let me guess, this new rule they have made up doesn’t apply to them, yet again.
“this new rule they have made up doesn’t apply to them”
more precisely, the purpose of everything on earth, including every rule, is to serve them.
(this is why (((alinsky))) writes in his rules for radicals, “make the enemy live up to his own rules”. he knows his fellow jews will understand his meaning.)
The more they push Whites and Asians down, the greater the mud puddle of liberal’s asses someday.
This is simply preposterous. I went to Kent School in Kent CT. One of my history teachers was William H. Armstrong Newbery award winning author of ‘Sounder’ a movie that starred Ciceley Tyson. It is the story of an African-American boy living with his sharecropper family. Mr Armstrong was a Caucasian gentleman who grew up in the south.
“Protective status” has already been granted to blacks. There are few crimes left which they are held to account. Short of murder, no bail is required and they are released to continue committing crime with impunity. Thanks Demoncrats.
law enforcement reflects the culture of its citizens.
After realizing yet another story about the devasting loss of a basketball, wait, a humanitarian legend named Kobe Bryant was on the news, my husband and I had a little fun seeing if it is as offensive as I bet it is.
“Nothing Compares 2 Kobe”
It’s been seven hours and too many days
Since you took Kobe Bryant away
I go out every night and sleep all day
Since you took Kobe Bryant away
Since Kobe’s been gone I can do whatever I want
I can see whomever I choose
I can eat my dinner in a fancy restaurant
But nothing
I said nothing can take away these blues
‘Cause nothing compares
Nothing compares to Kobe
It’s been so lonely without Kobe Bryant here
Like a bird without a song
Nothing can stop these lonely tears from falling
Tell me, Kobe, where did we go wrong
We could put our arms around every ballplayer we see
But they’d only remind us of Kobe
I went to the doctor and guess what he told me?
Guess what he told me?
He said, “Girl, you better try to forget Kobe Bryant no matter what you do,”
But he’s a fool
‘Cause nothing compares
Nothing compares to Kobe.
All the flowers that you planted, Kobe, in the back yard
All died when Kobe went away
I know that living with me, Kobe, was sometimes hard
But I’m willing to give it another try
Nothing compares
Nothing compares to Kobe
Nothing compares
Nothing compares to Kobe
Nothing compares
Nothing compares to Kobe
And I’m ashamed.