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May. 24th, 2009 08:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
molly_oRacialicious had an interesting discussion last week about the propriety of white writers writing CoC.
The conversation there played out differently than these conversations seem to in fandom, which I am guessing is due to the fundamental difference between fanfiction and original fiction. CoC in fanfic are already there, and most likely were created by white people to begin with, so (though most readers who care about the topic at all no doubt hope white writers will do a good job, a responsible job, writing CoC), the task is to write CoC no worse than TPTB do -- a pretty low bar.
The conversation there played out differently than these conversations seem to in fandom, which I am guessing is due to the fundamental difference between fanfiction and original fiction. CoC in fanfic are already there, and most likely were created by white people to begin with, so (though most readers who care about the topic at all no doubt hope white writers will do a good job, a responsible job, writing CoC), the task is to write CoC no worse than TPTB do -- a pretty low bar.