I’m working on a new piece of fiction, and as I was creating the various characters, I wondered what they were like? Were they young or old? Fat or thin? Attractive or ugly? White or black? Italian, French, German, Mexican, Egyptian …. You get the idea. <\/p>\n
Unfortunately, the prospect of writing a black character is fraught with difficulty. The woke world wants to make us afraid of so many things. E.g., If I make all my characters white, the woke will say, “See, you live in a white world and you’re prejudiced against black people.” But if I make a black character, the woke will say, “how dare you write a black character? You don’t know what it’s like to be black.” <\/p>\n
Right. Like I know what it’s like to be any of my characters. <\/p>\n
I don’t know what it’s like to be fat, for example. I could stand to lose five pounds, but I’ve never been fat. And of course I’ve never been a woman. <\/p>\n
I think the only way to make the woke happy is to make all the characters me. <\/p>\n
(Don’t worry, I have no interest in making the woke happy, and I hope none of them ever bother to read anything I’ve written.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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