/lit/ - Literature

>>15318441
I was thinking the exact same thing. Maybe they mean not witten by a white guy?
>>15318467
>>15318478
Although rude, I think these two have a point. There will always be political commentary in books. It's a question of wether the whole plot is subordinated to the message, Cultural-revolution style, or if there's some possibility of working around it. Also worth noting that it's always the same politics that gets published, which is galling. If I read one more strong brave half-filipino half-Caribbean gay female rocket engineer/navy SEAL in SF, I'll lose my fucking mind.
>>15320825
This is silly. It may be easier to corner the pink dollar market, but no way is it worth more. I think this is fundamentally ideological.
>>15320874
This has always bothered me, too. I grew up in the GDR, and let me tell you, I have a refined ability to distinguish between slavs, germans, nordics, gypsies, etc. It's absurd to lump us all together. Wars have been fought over less. "white" is a fucking spook.
>>15321114
Out of curiosity, can you just lie about this? How traceable is it? Can you just pretend to be Laqueesha or Carmen?
>>15321157
I wonder how hard it is to start a publishing company that just treats applicant submissions equally, without considering who they like to fuck or who their great-grandmother fucked?
>>15321303
Pretty interesting. I guess it's capital subsuming ideology, as predicted by hungry Santa himself. I have to say, I've developed an actual allergy to the propaganda at this point. Some stories will launch into "Janiqua DeLaFlores was the most brilliant nuclear physicist in the USA. She slapped away the hand of the dirty white man. "Let me handle this.": etc., and I just have to put it down. It's just too thick, too heavy. I'd like my propaganda a little subtler.