As a Hispanic writer, I must say that I am disgusted by the gleeful embrace of racism by progressives, especially in academia.
To publish and win awards nowadays you have to fill all the boxes and be an ethnic, sexual, or religious minority; even better if you have a disability, or many at once! (since for them deep down not being a "cis …
As a Hispanic writer, I must say that I am disgusted by the gleeful embrace of racism by progressives, especially in academia.
To publish and win awards nowadays you have to fill all the boxes and be an ethnic, sexual, or religious minority; even better if you have a disability, or many at once! (since for them deep down not being a "cis white male" is tantamount to being disabled). But what they're really most interested in is that you regurgitate their poisonous ideology (maybe that's why they were asking for "neurodivergent" writers?). So even if you were born with the misfortune of being white in today's American art and literary landscape, you can still make a career out of instigating racial hatred and playing the victim.
I've been tempted to participate in this circus a few times, and take advantage of my racial "edge," but for some time now I've decided not to submit work to media or literary contests where this fundamentally illiberal and absurdist thinking predominates.
As a Hispanic writer, I must say that I am disgusted by the gleeful embrace of racism by progressives, especially in academia.
To publish and win awards nowadays you have to fill all the boxes and be an ethnic, sexual, or religious minority; even better if you have a disability, or many at once! (since for them deep down not being a "cis white male" is tantamount to being disabled). But what they're really most interested in is that you regurgitate their poisonous ideology (maybe that's why they were asking for "neurodivergent" writers?). So even if you were born with the misfortune of being white in today's American art and literary landscape, you can still make a career out of instigating racial hatred and playing the victim.
I've been tempted to participate in this circus a few times, and take advantage of my racial "edge," but for some time now I've decided not to submit work to media or literary contests where this fundamentally illiberal and absurdist thinking predominates.