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“The Blood Heir debacle is a stark reminder that objectionable tropes and ‘codes’ can be found in virtually anything. White character helps a ‘POC’? ‘White savior narrative.’ Black character helps white character, especially at some cost? The ‘Magical Negro’ trope. White and ‘POC’ characters are perfect equals? Colorblindness. Zhao was attacked for creating a fictional world in which most slaves are white; had she created one with black slavery, she could have been attacked as a racist who can’t imagine black people in any world as anything other than slaves. (Meanwhile, less than four years ago, a short story cycle by the late Ursula LeGuin set in a world with white slaves and black masters was hailed as part of her ‘literary project of intersectional justice.’) The standards are so flexible and arbitrary that anyone can become the heretic du jour.”

quillette.com/2019/02/04/ya-fi

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