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harborshore ([personal profile] harborshore) wrote2010-06-16 01:50 pm
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three things

Regarding the recent SPN Big Bang racist fail:


  1. People who speak a language you don't understand do not gibber or jabber, they talk. You just don't understand them. ETA: This post is more detailed concerning this point.

  2. If your story has a major tragedy whose victims are portrayed as somehow less than your protagonists, if said victims have no agency (as in, they don't do anything, they get things done to them), and if they (and their deaths) are there only to provide angst for your heroes, then you are doing it WRONG.

  3. If you're considering writing a fic about a tragedy that is still going on, then tread carefully. Very carefully.



Note: the link above goes to an extensive collection of the offending quotes from the story; there's a full roundup at Unfunny Business.

[identity profile] extemporally.livejournal.com 2010-06-16 11:47 am (UTC)(link)
Yes. Yes yes yes to everything you said. I can't believe no one pointed out the fail, ugh. :(

[identity profile] jubella.livejournal.com 2010-06-16 12:37 pm (UTC)(link)
There is nothing about Creole that is gibberish. I hated that so much. Just because I don't understand Spanish or Chinese doesn't make it gibberish. That made me so mad. It also makes me want to speak mean things about the author in Creole because I am grudgy.

[identity profile] torakowalski.livejournal.com 2010-06-16 01:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Ugh. I know that there are other racist and faily things happening in that story not just the language one but that's the one I keep getting stuck on. Pro-Colonialism, pro-Imperialism fiction from the 1950s described non-European languages as gibberish. We should be so far beyond that by now. /o\
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[personal profile] x_dark_siren_x 2010-06-17 11:57 am (UTC)(link)
I gave up after the one referring to the cousin who died in childbirth. Ugh.

People are - People are stupid. And now I feel like I need a shower. My skin is currently trying to crawl off my body.
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