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[ksmith]

Not going to get involved in the cultural appropriation talk. I will only say that the one time I got slapped, it was for *not* representing one culture. I had represented a couple of others, one at a time, and the writer of the complaining email felt I was ignoring theirs on purpose.

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[michaeldthomas.livejournal.com]

It's a tricky situation. It was hard watching friends of mine get dragged into the thick of it this week.

My favorite story of getting slapped down came from tobiasbuckell. I was having lunch with him, David Anthony Durham, and Pat Rothfuss at WisCon. Toby told us about some vicious emails that he got from somebody chastising him about appropriating Caribbean PoC for his books. They had obviously just looked at his picture and not done any research to know that he is multiracial and from the Caribbean. He was not amused.