CNN Reporter arrested by state police while on air.

[LynnInDenver]

While I agree with most of that, being sexist and racist against straight white guys is not any better than the reverse, you know - equal wrongs is not the same as equal rights. It also means missing out on a lot of very good stories, though that's a side consideration at best.

I don’t get how you got from LynninDenver’s niece refusing to read anything by white/cis persons is racism against straight white guys.

As I see it she is just choosing not to engage with a white cis gendered perspective in her fiction, which probably permeates 90% of her interactions with the world anyway and instead giving that space to other voices and perspectives. Which is a sentiment I can get behind. After going thru my personal library I know I need to read more from POC authors and LGBTQ+.

As author Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie Said in her TED talk The Danger of a Single Story

What this demonstrates, I think, is how impressionable and vulnerable we are in the face of story, particularly as children. Because all I had read were books in which characters were foreign, I had become convinced that books by their very nature had to have foreigners in them and had to be about things with which I could not personally identify.”

I recommend everyone watch that talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_ngo...ngle_story

Yeah, I know I also need to do the same, get some reading in from people who are not white and cis and straight and male. (Although I also know there's some on the shelf I need to really read that we already have outside of those categories, like Alex Acks.) Although I personally will still consume the works of the ones I know are trying their best to not fall into the horrors of being on the easiest difficulty setting, Like John Scalzi.

Do note that saying you'd like to be called out as a person on passive sexism and racism and genderism and such goes a LONG way with me, whether you're an author or actor or otherwise with some level of celebrity.