Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-35711173-20180705051303/@comment-9041013-20180707130527

Jdeschene wrote: I will grant that that is all true, but is it really for us as white authors to write those kinds of characters? I would say the answer is no. That's my opinion on the matter. Everyone is of course entitled to write whatever they want about whatever kind of character they want, but my hope is that, in this kind of situation, the writer will stop for a moment and say to themselves, "Is this potentially harmful?" I think it's important to do that. Uhh yeah, for me it very much is the reality. I live in a old, kind of a neglected neighborhood in the middle east. Not to say that I live in Syria or war torn Yemen but even westernized states like Israel have their poverty lines and what not. Again, I'm not poor, I just happen to live in a "poor's people neighborhood" because it's convinient so far.

Do I have to deal with racism? well yeah, The founders of this country were from Eastern Europe and somehow Russians here are viewed, by some, as "less of a Jew" or "less of a proper Israelite" because reasons... I get racist comments on the Internet as well, being partially Jewish and Russian in nationality is like having "You are Hitler's second coming" written all over my back. So as a white person who earns his share in life, the so called privilaged one, I get just as much flack based on nothing.

As for, "is this potentially harmful", again, if we all thought this way, we should close this site and ban horror themed everything in this world because A, it might "trigger" people, B it might actually cause fits in people with actual health problems and C, it might (and there were cases, the Slenderman Murder attempt for example) inspire people to do awful things.

So yeah... Intellegent people have the ability to differentiate fiction and the reality that it talks about, lets just view our audiences as intellegent enough.

Nice talking to y'all by the way.