/lit/ - Literature

>>12529213
Just a few more of these outrages and the entire Young Adult industry will collapse in on itself.

>>12529240
I pray that it happens soon.

>>12529213
>If you're woke, you're not allowed to write.
Fix’d.
You can’t lose if you don’t play the game, lads.

>>12529240

Not before I pen a the braap barn anthology where YA authors are absconded to the outskirts of civilization where braap ranchers extracts a most precious commodity from a diverse set of women.

The way to succeed in any art today, is to unapologetically be an "ignorant" man, just writing whatever. If someone calls you on something, just say you don't even understand what they are talking about. Seriously, there is a hole in the market for a strong, silent type of outdoorsy, old-school man to be extremely successful

>>12529531
>I'm sorry I don't know what you're talking about
>Um sweetie, It's not my job to teach you
This actually might work

I think something like this would make a good short story maybe. Something like, an aspiring YA artist writes a book about a utopian society that has moved past racism, and gets hounded out of the industry by people calling his book racist.

>>12529531
>stop being transphobic, you cishet opressor
>I’m sorry ma’am, I don’t understand what you’re saying

>>12529531
I think trying to be successful in art is where you're going wrong. Art for art's sake and soulless mass appeal are the future.

>>12529213
What if anything has John Green said about this?

>>12530004
He gargled his affirmation through the vat of semen he slumbers within

>>12529213
good desu, white men have had their day, greedy to keep other authors out

>>12529574
>I think trying to be successful in art is where you're going wrong. Art for art's sake and soulless mass appeal are the future.

I don't disagree, but that means that art for art's will be self-published or outright banned for hate speech

>>12529213

qt azn is qt. I wouldn't read her book, but I would ask her for a date.

> Asian author Amelie Wen Zhao writes slavery-themed novel


literally why did this happen
why would an asian qt write a book about that

>>12530133
Asian women are nowhere near the sweet, innocent creatures that incels want to believe they are - that's just a surface level ploy

>>12530129
no you wouldn't, you pathetic scared little bitch.

>>12530167
what, you're saying that this >>12529213
qt has a BBC fetish, thus fueling an entire novel about muh slaves

>>12529531
>art

She's a young adult fantasy author. The way to succeed is to write real literature where the brainlets up on a golden pedestal where the plebs can't hear you. You think Tommy P. writing about orgies and rape isn't problematic? No twitter warrior can make heads or tails of Gravity's Rainbow, so he's safe. Even David Foster Wallace is untouchable, because they never actually fucking read Infinite Jest, they just complain about the people who have read it and call them "lit-bros"

>>12530194
i honestly dont think IJ would be praised if it were released today

>>12530177
Maybe the pussy runs from him in fear cuz he got all that grease

> write what you know

https://twitter.com/ameliewenzhao/status/1090706315440242688

what does Wen Zhao know about the black struggle? why did she think she was capable of writing about it? she grew up in China until she was an adult

The more money YA makes, the more this kind of shit leaks into all publishing and becomes the norm. "Literary fiction" publishing is probably already there.

>>12530224

The Latin playwright Terence (himself an African slave from Carthage) once wrote: “I am a human being and I consider nothing human alien to me."

In other words there is no black struggle. There only the human struggle that blacks are a part of.

>>12530224
"Write what you know," is advice - not a categorical imperative. If you do take it as such, almost the entirety of literature and story telling would be taken out and we would be left only with personal narratives. While personal narratives can be a pleasure to read, no sane man would think that they are the sole font of inspiration and creativity.

>>12530561
> u not need to write about what u know

later

> some Chinese woman writes about basketball americans during slavery, is completely inaccurate and insensitive

>>12530224
>she grew up in China until she was an adult
Barely, she spent most of her life abroad and attended international schools. She isn't culturally Chinese at all.

>>12530587
she lived in China until she was 18, she's Chinese. I don't care if she went to one of them fancy private schools

>>12530580

>>12530614
She doesn't even speak Chinese lmao.

>>12530631
how do you know? She looks acts Chinese
Chinese husband
Chinese frens
Chinese clothing
Chinese-speaking instagram comments

https://www.instagram.com/p/BkdjytQHK8d/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BjUyyelhxkd/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BdaeNC5D4fK/

You're telling me that all these chinks at this Chinese restaurant are speaking English with each other?

>>12530614
>>12530670
>>12530678
>White knighting on /lit/
The fuck.

>>12530678

no they're speaking esperanto. everybody knows that

>>12530687
yeah, I'm angry that a pack of African gorillas are throwing feces at this qt3.14. I'm also angry that she even thought it was a good idea to write a novel about black people. She should know that in the current political climate, only black people can write anything about black people. Everything else is rayciss

>>12530670

Imagine the snizz boring machine that Han Chad is wielding. Amelie's vag never stood a chance.

>>12530706
>She should know that in the current political climate
She did, she's a massive fucking baizuo, despite your insisting she's culturally Chinese she would've been torn apart in China, ridiculed to death for her social media posts.

>>12530727
no she is not, shut up. She is pure and innocent, and led astray by her editors

>>12530670
>Writing notes to yourself in a foreign language

>>12530670
Fuck bros, Wang is p hot. How can Chad compete?

>>12530751
it's basically Chad, but chinkcore. there's no difference.

>>12530129
>>12530133

It looks brilliant from the outside but once you have a gook gf you'll realise how shallow and empty they really are. Stay away from them or use them as fuck bodies

The absolute STATE of the modern publishing industry.
You can't get published unless you're:
>a black wimminz writing about stronkg poc black wimminz EG "the hate u give"
>a tranny writing about chopping your dick off, much bravery so wow jazzy
>a cunt writing thinly veiled erotic stories or yet another shitty romance
>an underrepresented minority of non-whiteness color writing about how oppressed you are and wrapping everything under a rupi kapur style pseudo-wisdom with vague trappings of some obscure oriental philosophy
>writing YA knockoffs of other shit EG hunger games (ripoff of battle royale)
>writing something with not-Trump getting beheaded and everyone claps
Why do you still buyfag? You're only supporting this pozzing, anon. Don't give them your money until they stop being retarded. Because of this STATE, there are thousands of deserving manuscripts that will forever go unpublished, meanwhile the shelves are overflowing with pozzed-up-neghole tier faggotry.

>>12529502
we're all rooting for you anon

here's some more drama

https://www.npr.org/2017/10/21/559215264/kirkus-changes-review-after-american-heart-draws-outrage-as-white-savior-narrati
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/kirkus-reviews-plight-of-the-problematic-book-review
https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/melinda-henneberger/article198207169.html

>>12530875
>pozzed-up-neghole
Speak english, jesus christ

>>12530943

>Kansas novelist Laura Moriarty’s ‘American Heart’ is no white savior story
>by melinda henneberger
>Henneberger

Every. Fucking. Time.

>>12530486
standpoint theory BTFO

>>12530486
north african was populated by white people back then, it only became non-white after the arab conquest in the 7th century, and it most definitely wasn't black at any time considering it is separated from subsaharan africa by, u know, the sahara...

>Zhao’s depiction of slavery in one scene has been deemed problematic. Reverse racism, lack of genderqueer representation, and a central antagonist with a limp are some of the other criticisms levelled against it

fucking end me

>>12531162

holy shit thats a real quote! book sounds shitty as hell but its not because of lack of genderqueer representation

How do I become woke enough, /lit/?

anyone have the actual except from her book? I want to read it. Did she write wrote slave erotica, white massa fucking his black Sally Hemmings slave?

>>12531162
the school of resentment strikes again

>>12531184
Apparently publication got cancelled after the backlash. There's this tho:

>“The issues around Affinite indenturement in the story represent a specific critique of the epidemic of indentured labor and human trafficking prevalent in many industries across Asia, including in my own home country,” Zhao wrote. “The narrative and history of slavery in the United States is not something I can, would, or intended to write, but I recognize that I am not writing in merely my own cultural context.” The statement continued: “I don’t wish to clarify, defend, or have anyone defend me. This is not that; this is an apology.”

Which of course makes the whole situation exponentially more funny

It's sad. She seems like she really wants to help negros too. It's too bad they didn't embrace her

> Blood Heir, the first in a planned three-book series, began as the ultimate social media–meets–publishing success story. Zhao matched with her agent, Peter Knapp, during a Twitter pitching event for marginalized creators. Zhao immigrated from China to the U.S. at the age of 18.

> “Set out with good intentions,” Zhao wrote in March 2018, in a post advising other writers on how to navigate social media. “Be enthusiastic, be positive, be supportive, cheer people on — all those things you’d want to find in a real-life friend, be those things online and in the writing community, too.”

> A scroll through her Twitter history shows that Zhao generally followed her own advice in the year after she sold her book, boosting fellow authors and writing about the issues she faced as part of YA’s nonwhite minority.

> In one tweet, she mused: “I’ve been asked several times why I didn’t write a Chinese #ownvoices novel. I don’t want to be boxed into the permanent ‘Other;’ I want diverse books written by PoC to become part of the mainstream.

People are saying that Amelie is a bully

> Early last week, however, influencers within the YA community began tweeting vaguely about an unnamed person engaged in bad authorial behavior:
> targeting book bloggers for harassment over negative reviews,
> "shit talking other authors of color.”

> The villain’s identity was initially a mystery and source of fascination, but elsewhere, a woman who tweets under the handle @LegallyPaige wasn’t being so cagey about naming names:
> “I’ll tell you which 2019 debut author has been gathering screenshots of people who don’t/didn’t like her book and giving off Kathleen Hale vibes: Amelie Wen Zhao.”

> Previously, Zhao had butted heads with YA queen bee Justina Ireland in May 2018. After Ireland wrote a (since deleted) tweet that some readers interpreted as exclusionary gatekeeping of the “POC” label, Zhao launched a long thread asserting that Asian women are, indeed, women of color, including some pointed language about those who would suggest otherwise.

>>12531232
> It’s impossible to say whether this eight-month-old beef helped spark a retaliatory campaign by Ireland’s supporters, or perhaps primed critics to focus on Zhao’s alleged insensitivity to the history of African-American slavery.

> What is clear is that the current controversy speaks to a larger, ongoing debate in YA about marginalized identities, “own voices,” and who is and isn’t entitled to tell certain kinds of stories.

>>12531213
I try not to think about this because it does make my blood boil, but, yeah, comfortable and tenured SJW's in the United States are making the lives of the poor and disenfranchised elsewhere in the world hell in the name of the poor and disenfranchised. It's frustrating when someone is so focused on their goal (in this case, justice) that they disregard all other avenues of human accomplishment, but it's goddamn maddening when someone is so focused on that goal that they end up sabotaging that goal itself. It's beyond hypocrisy, it's sheer short-sightedness and ignorance.

>>12531232
manufactured controversy for marketing purposes

>>12531247
she has no book to sell, what would be the purpose of such marketing

It's only a problem if you try to sell to the woke crowd, but only black people and trannies should try that since everyone else is at least one step up the privilege ladder

>>12531221
Reading this is kind of fascinating. The people in the SJW community have morals that are so different that this is kinda like reading about a fantasy world.

>>12529213
>Koch shill
fuck off to >>>/news/

>>12531221
Reading this is entertaining. The people in the SJW community have morals that are so different, so weird, that this is similar to reading about a fantasy world.

>>12531141
Shh...geography is racist. Uneducated liberal swine can't tell the difference between mediterranean period north africa, berber north africa, and the literal spearchuckers stuck south of the massive fucking desert of death and hopelessness. Pitch black savanahmen occupied Egypt, didn't you know?
Celebrating different cultures and races is RACIST. Everyone was everything. Black people were napoleon and pharoes and celtic warriors under bouddica. And everyone outside europe is BROWN. Hurr what's the caucasus? What's bactria?
Not to mention north africa was settled by proto-greeks in the age of the seafarers...

>>12531288
yeah if you ever meet egyptian copts most of them look like fuckin greeks, and a small percent look brown and thin like light-skinned Ethiopians or something, sure as hell no zulu lookin mfs running around the magreb

Meanwhile

https://youtu.be/PhhaHVOEy8Y

>>12529213

>Twittermob
>young-adult
>woke
>deemed problematic

Y'know, you could be reading Plato instead of filling your head with garbage.

>>12531476
And you could be out there having fun with a girl who loves you, but you're wasting away on /lit/.

>>12529213

>Our cultural landscape is increasingly controlled by the permanently outraged.

This is the sort of sentence that gives you the idea that something really bad is taking place, but then you have to realize that the culture that is being controlled is american YA fiction. Now, american fiction as such is mostly without any literary value, composed mostly of dreadful stories by people with overpriced MFA's about cancer and sexless marriages, all written in a voice that is universally monotone in a way so unmistakable that it can be called the depressed elder sibling of the slam voice that you recognize so easily. But it's not even that - it's american YA fiction. Calling it culture is an insult to man. This is a non-issue. To those of you who find it rage-inducing, step away from the screen and stop being such gigantic faggots. Do this, honestly >>12531476
There'd be an issue if it was Houllebecq or Knausgård who were being silenced, but it isn't. It's americans devouring themselves like the uncultured swine that they are, and honestly, who the fuck cares?

>>12531487

It does pertain to my own post, I know. I've been in the process of quitting this cesspit of despair for a while now. Didn't come here for the last half of '18, been back some three times now just to immediately be repulsed by the post quality. I'm off again. Good luck anon.

>>12531529
It would be fine if SJWs were only affecting YA literature. But the permanently outraged are also invading philosophy and it's only a matter of time before they go after Houllebecq

>>12530193
>literally cannot hear the concept 'slavery' without immediately jumping to Murrican racial/psychosexual hang-ups
Americans. Damn. Sounded like this was the problem her book had, appropriately enough

>>12530224
>what does Wen Zhao know about the black struggle? why did she think she was capable of writing about it?
What the actual hell are you talking about? That link specifically says she -wasn't- trying to write about black slaves.

>>12531871
> slave character is brown, tan, with brown curls
> dies in white main character's arms, singing a song, like the Hunger Games half-negro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed5xIjGdqb4

> Reviewers are saying that the book shows a black girl being rescued from the slave trade and subsequently dying so that the white protagonist can live.
> However, that interpretation may not be correct. We’re really not even really sure that the character in question, May, is black. May is described several times as having “ocean-blue eyes” or “aqua marine eyes.” Her skin is initially described as “bronze” and then “tan” on second reference. Her “brown curls” are also not necessarily indicative of a particular race.

>>12531851
One wonders how this book would be perceived if she had remained in Beijing and written the book in Chinese for the Chinese audience.

>>12530943
As somebody from Lawrence, I'm interested.

The serpent eats itself.

>>12533506

>>12533506
>>12533513
The way they talk is genuinely creepy to me. Maybe I'm just an old school faggot who is not changing with the times, sure, but there's something eery about the corporate sensitivity training speech and the public admissions of guilt carefully hitting all the right notes as if there's a guy with a gun pointed at them.

>>12533524
>corporate sensitivity training speech

yeah, you know your a fucking woke revolutionary when you talk like a diversity training handbook, radical

>>12530194
This.

>>12529574
I unironically don't know what transphobic and cishet means.

>>12533533
Never ever visit twitter, leave yourself pure. I wish I could go back in time and scrub all knowledge of the existence of these poisonous ideas.

>>12533536
i have twitter blocked, sometimes i miss out on a funny video, but its better than getting sucked into reading screaming culture warriors flinging shit at each other

>cancelling the publication of your novel because some angry cunts are angry
Weak people like this shouldn't write in the first place. Call it artistic darwinism

>>12533533
Yes you do you fucking faggot. We sit down for a second and talk about a type of person that would be cool in this day and age as a joke and you, sad insecure loser desperate for validation, actually puts your hand up and yell "that's me! that's me! I'm the cool guy you're thinking about everyone!!"? What a waste of life you are. Never, EVER post again.

>>12533540
this is perhaps an out of proportion response to the anon's crime

>>12533538
remember when the twitter mob made the nation retract that poem about panhandling, lol its like a bunch of bots probably controlled by 3 trolls now have editorial control over left leaning publications lmao

>>12533533
use your brain

trans-phobic means you're scared of or hate transsexual people
cis-het means you're cis and heterosexual

>>12533540
I didn't understand.
>>12533537
I use Twitter just to follow bands and camwhores.
>>12533551
No clue what cis means. I'm not an native english speaker, I've never heard or read those words.

>>12533584
I don't know if "cis" a German word, but it's from chemistry. If 2 molecules are on the same side of a bond, they are called cis molecules. If 2 molecules are on the opposite side of a bond, they are called trans molecules. So cis people are the same, they are normal people.

>>12533551
>cis-het means you're cis and heterosexual

In other words, 'normal people'.

>>12533543
Shhheeeeiiit. Was it this? I missed it at the time.

If you got hiv, say aids. If you a girl,
say you’re pregnant––nobody gonna lower
themselves to listen for the kick. People
passing fast. Splay your legs, cock a knee
funny. It’s the littlest shames they’re likely
to comprehend. Don’t say homeless, they know
you is. What they don’t know is what opens
a wallet, what stops em from counting
what they drop. If you’re young say younger.
Old say older. If you’re crippled don’t
flaunt it. Let em think they’re good enough
Christians to notice. Don’t say you pray,
say you sin. It’s about who they believe
they is. You hardly even there.

Anders Carlson-Wee

>>12533533
Transphobic - someone who fears and hate trannies. Taken from homophobic. Etymologically speaking, it doesn't make any fucking sense (trans - beyond. Phobia - fear).

Cishet - Comfortable In your Skin HEterosexual (male, by omission).

>>12531464
based black-people-making-fun-of-white-boomer-parenting humor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFv0vHRdE3w

>>12533643
lmao that was actually funny af

>>12533526
Every successful revolution had a handbook

>>12531529
>The absolute lack of self-consciousness
Sure, book burning is allright as long as they only burn YA novels.
Then one day You're in the middle of the culture revolution and a obese tumblrina with a machete cuts your nose and ears because your glasses were paid by the national health fund.

>>12531914
Yeah. Blue eyed tan people Obviously mean afro-americans.
Jesus almighty How I hate You.

>>12533636
It sounds like some cosmic horror concept when you break it down.

>>12533712
Innsmouth is in Berkeley nowadays.
They even have the "mask", hence why people joke about basedboys.
When they're done maturing they'll swim away...

>>12533540
Were your fat fingers shaking with rage as you typed this? Also, this sounds like projection. You faggy fag-fag.

based sane SJW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4S1p3KtZSw

>>12530881
>we're all tooting for you anon
ftfy

> A year prior to the controversy, she tweeted "I just got my author advance. I'M GOING TO BE A PUBLISHED AUTHOR!!!!"

Sad

>>12533526
This is pretty much what revolutionaries do. You've fallen for commie propaganda I'm sorry, go read some history.

I don't get how standpoint theory has invaded literature to such a ridiculous degree that if you don't have a specific skin color, you can't even write about specific things?

That feels like East-Germany tbqh.

>>12533524
>corporate sensitivity training
kek, that does capture it quite well. The other obvious analogy is Maoist China (struggle sessions, 'self-criticism', re-education) but obviously it's a lot pettier and less serious in its consequences- I don't think anyone's yet been killed or killed themselves because their YA fiction wasn't ideologically sound enough.

'Red Guards doing corporate sensitivity training' captures it well.

>>12530129
Good luck competing with this handsome square-jawed fucker, anon: >>12530670

>>12531724
>it's only a matter of time before they go after Houllebecq
u wot m8? He's surely already provoked plenty of outrage in the three decades he's been published, and from much more significant people. If Twitter non-entities turned the full force of their rage on him, I can't see him doing anything more than shrugging Gallically

>>12533918
if you write about something youre expected to be directly related to the subject, yet if you exclude depictions of people who you dont understand you are a racist. the intent is for white people to be trapped

>>12533963
Yes exactly, surely if this YA author wrote about a race of black slaves in her novel instead of multiethnic slaves then the usual suspects would go after her even harder??

>>12530687
> I can't think of a rebuttal therefore *spins buzzword wheel* white knighting
You guys are as big NPCs as the left I swear.

>>12530129
Kill yourself, race traitor

>>12533958
People used to say that about John Finnis. That the average SJW is not smart enough to know who he was. Recently, the mob tried to go after him.

>>12534096
That's not what I'm saying. They may or may not know of him- what I'm saying is it wouldn't matter anyway, because Twitter outrage wouldn't affect him.

Not sure of the relevance of Finnis- a quick google suggests he's still got his positions, but in any case academic positions are inherently more vulnerable to public opinion. Whats the worst you could hit a novelist like Houellebecq with? Extra publicity?

>>12529213
anything that stops more YA publishing is good in my book

>>12533590
E is from the German word Entegen meaning Opposite whereas Z is from the word Zusammen meaning together.

>>12534083
t. incel

>>12529213
Reminds me of the blackademia video by TL;DR. You get woke instantly.

>>12534204
Rather be an incel than have aids and race mixed Elliot Rodgers running around

>>12530486
“Humanity” is an empty construct.

>>12529531
every man his power fantasy, i guess

>>12534081
It's pretty hard to do anything but spew "buzzwords" when your buzzwords are actually correct.

>>12531537
Oh, hey - I keep bumping into you here. Good luck with your endeavor.

Isn't the point of traditional publishing that it provides lots of resources for the author? Why didn't they send a woke black ally woman to help edit her book and make sure it was acceptable to the African American booktubers?

>>12533935
>corporate sensitivity training
I had to take one of these classes. My partner was Vietnamese. He was unfamiliar with the term "gook" until he heard it in the class. He became enamored with the word and just started using it massively:
>gookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgookgook
The look on the instructor's face was priceless. He wanted to stop him but he had no idea how to do it within his own self-imposed restraints.

>>12533506
OH NO NO NO NO

>>12531464
>Basquiat
>I ned this

Kek.

>>12533506
> It has been pointed out to me that the journalist who wrote this is a woman of color, though I am not sure if she is black

the author's name is Amelia Zhao, why would she be black. Can't they look at a picture of her and conclude she is not black? Do these people not do even a simple Google search before tweeting out outrage

>>12533813
What the fuck is "Ethnenticity"?

>>12535678
Talking about the author of the slate article. Get some reading comprehension.

>>12533540
thats gonna be a "yikes" from me

>>12535714
portmanteau of ethnicity and authenticity

>>12530194
>David Foster Wallace is untouchable
DFW got #MeToo'd. You're not even safe in the sweet embrace of death.

>>12529213
>YA novel by woman of colour cancelled
Is this a bad thing?

>>12535678
>race and gender are based on physical appearance or biology
yikes

>>12529213
She's quite a looker.

>>12537156

>>12537164

>>12529213
Hey Tim, you're article is badly written and I'm happy you're stuck writing for Spiked Online.

>>12529213
Here's her apology. But of course, all the apologies won't be enough to cut it for the SJW overlords.

>>12532760
i'm from Lawrence and my signed copy of the center of everything might as well be garbage

>>12537243
I feel so bad for her. She was only 4 months from publishing her first novel. Now she may never get a traditional novel-writing career

>>12537343
>I feel so bad for her
Don't, she made the decision herself not to publish after bending over backwards to please the very people who mercilessly went after her. She's a coward.

>>12537371
she's Asian though, she doesn't know that in America, you have to stand up to bullies

My bud Nick summing up this cluster-fuck

>>12537426

When will these retarded culture wars finally end? Everything is just so tiresome nowadays.

>>12533524
There is a gun being pointed at them.

>>12537426
>>12537452
this guy is incredibly cowardly but still wants to find the one small way he has left to be smug and elitist about something

some poc woman can always just come along and say 'we dont need to hear from white men' and he has to grovel

>>12529213
Is she ever going to get published? Will she just wait for the commotion to cool down for a while, and then try to get the book she planned out, or another book written instead?

>>12537164
>>12537156
>>12529213
She was onlt "attacked" because she is young and prettty. It has nothing to do with the content of her novel.

>>12537452
>>12537452
>reading Young Adult fiction
>YA Twitter is a pretty person's club
All of these people belong in labor camps. Nothing of value would be lost if none of them ever wrote another word again.

>>12533813
Baby daddy is white?

>>12530875
I looked at the prose thread. If that is the example of the white male talent that is being overlooked then nothing of value is lost.

>>12529531
There really isnt. Hipsters tried this shit for the last 10 years. Larping as people from the past isnt interesting especially when you're a puffy nippled white guy from brooklyn new york. No amount of beard hair can save you

>>12537549
>When will these retarded culture wars finally end?
According to /lit/ leftists there is no culture war, and it is /pol/ cross-board posting to blame (or alternatively, capitalism is to blame. Real social justice and identity politics apparently hasn't been tried yet).

>>12538684
Claiming that there is no culture war is merely another tactic in the culture war.

>>12538684
>>12538693
based and redpilled

>>12530193
>reads the word slavery
>immediately starts thinking about black cocks

>>12533944
>>12530751
>>12530710
>r/asianmasculinity repressed homos browse /lit/
god fucking damnit

>>12530167

I've been married to a Japanese girl for 20 years. Love her, but can confirm this is true. Koreans are bitcher on the surface, but Japs are saints in public but demon psychos at home.

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Beautiful girl, terrible writing

>>12529531
There's no point trying to regurgitate Hemingway.
What does masculinity mean to you? Why? Is there a disconnect between your ideal self and who you are? What can we say about our current societal trends? I think these are all fertile ground for good writing, but whining about how you're oh so persecuted by the modern world is just circlejerking and feeling sorry for yourself. Women feel hated too, because people relate to vitriol towards themselves more deeply than towards others. The internet is a gigantic directionless hate machine. Yet being blunt and unapologetic has never gotten me crucified IRL, quite the opposite.

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>>12533813
based SJW indeed

>>12531529
>Then they came for the American YA novels, but still I said nothing, for I was safe, and I didn't care for them anyways

You think it stops at American YA novels? These people have based their life identity on this culture. This culture is founded on a movement. The movement exists on the premise of fighting problems. Without problems, there is no fight, thus no movement, thus no culture, thus no identity. These people are creating problems, turning other things into problems, perpetuating hate, fighting to keep fighting because without the fight they have no self. Once they have defeated the American YA novel and left their mark, it will be time to move on and leave another corpse in the wake of progress.

>>12542067
that assumes that they will eventually solve all problems in YA

>>12533526
It's dehumanizing. That's what commies and other totalitarians do, along with big corps - reduce humans to etiquettes and then remove them from existence. Currently they only go for their careers and jobs.

Cultural Marxism is the best thing that happened to Big Corporate because it obfuscates the class / wage debate with doubleplusungood she/her/xir/they endless retweet.

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>>12530224
China actually still practices slavery, so she knows more about the black struggle than any black living in America today.

>>12533533
BASED

>>12529213
Thank God these people only read YA fiction. I'd hate to see what the publishing industry would turn into if they read outside their safe spaces.

>>12538684
capitalism literally is to blame tho
although real capitalism hasn't been tried

>>12544057
>If your book contains prisons you are writing about black people and if you are writing about black people you are racist
Christ on a pike

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>>12531529
>there are still people on /lit/ that think this socjus insanity is isolated incidents, and that if you stop paying attention to it, it will go away

>>12542067
There's no danger of it spreading because they're literally eating themselves. This author only got attacked because she identified with the ideology in the first place- she rode the Oppression Tiger and it unsurprisingly turned around and ate her. That irony makes it a fun story to talk about, but hardly anything to be feared

>>12544057
Why would you save these tweets? At least in the form of that image (there may be context that explains them, I guess) they're incomprehensible, which makes your point equally incomprehensible