three things

[harborshore]

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.

Comments

[jubella.livejournal.com]

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.

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

God, yeah. (I think you should, seriously.) If you don't know the language that the people in your story are speaking, do some fucking research, and if you don't think it's a language, then you--AUGH. OF COURSE IT'S A FUCKING LANGUAGE. I'm so sorry people are such idiots, dearheart. *hugs*