R.F. Kuang, bestselling author of novels for over-educated, underbred first-born Asian American daughters, is being cancelled for making a minor character in new novel Israeli. Even though she vocally supports BDS.https://www.thejc.com/news/world/bestselling-author-faces-backlash-over-positive-portrayal-of-israeli-character-hw9m5kdx
drama alert
>>25257981https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MPHyR92MQic&ra=m
>>25257978I love it when these people cross their psycho fanbases. Rowling is probably the crowning achievement of fan rejection but minor successes like the chuddification of Weir or the ALLEGATIONS (tumblrspeak for 100% confirmed rapist) against Neil Gay Man bring me great joy as well. The ching chongs don’t tend to have the wherewithal to bow to the hivemind, thinking they are too smart or can use their own minority status to chew the unbelievers out. Let’s hope she does that. That always ends well.
>>25257978>It was in Chinese, but I was startled by how much of it was immediately comprehensible to me. I wasn't struggling to read. The pianist was from Israel, and he was a big deal: He had performed at concert halls throughout Europe and the Americas and been a soloist with all sorts of philharmonic orchestras. This was his first time in Taiwan. The National Concert Hall was honored to host him.It cracks me up there are "smart" people with degrees from Yale, Oxford, and Cambridge (all three in her case) but whose prose reads like it's from a children's reading primer.
>>25257978/pol/ completely and utterly won.
>>25258040>It was in Chinese, but I was startled by how much of it was immediately comprehensible to me. I wasn't struggling to readAny of these declaratives means the character is struggling to read it. Kuang knows Chinese I am sure of it, but needs to make her MC "not forget her Chinese roots" using declaratives. Very performative. Why not have an Asian American character so removed from China she can't relate, and wants only white cock
>minor backlash>canceled
I hear many Israeli pianists are well versed in Chopin.
>>25258040Harvard hasn't produced a good author since Burroughs, and Fitzgerald is the only good one to ever come out of Princeton.For all their prestige, these places do very little to cultivate artistic talent today.
>>25258504I hear Israelis are Bach on the Chopin Liszt
>>25257978not a problem, like, at all, for people who read real books>um—yesholy chungus>>25258563good one anon
>>25257978Is this what qualifies for news nowadays?
>>25257978On the one hand, I hate Israel. On the other, this is a stupid thing to get cancelled over for obvious reasons. But back on the other hand, I really hate Kuang as an author and wouldn't mind her out of the limelight. I'm very torn on what to feel about this.
>>25257978>R.F. KuangWho?
I like her non fantasy books.I don't know why she keeps trying to make fantasy worlds that are just our world, but with a really contrived and far reaching magic system that still ends up being just our normal world.
>>25259176even yellowface? I could not finish that trash
>>25258040Literature doesnt come from universities anymore
>>25259200It was my favorite actually.I think it baited a lot of people into thinking it's race bait, but its actually race baiting race baiters.When you understand that Juniper Song, not Athena Liu is RF Kuang's self insert persona the book makes way more sense.
>>25257978Look I'm anti-ZOG and have been my whole life but it's true that leftists obsess over Israel a bit too much. It's basically all they care about, look how quickly BLM evaporated into nothingness and was forgotten by leftists for example
live and die by the woke
>>25259591i know the premise of the book, the entire internet couldn't shut up about it for months. the characters and prose was just omega infantilizing and YA-coded
>>25258002Oh believe me, I'm enjoying it too
>>25259666>the characters and prose was just omega infantilizing and YA-codedthis is because RF Kuang's audience is tumblr teens who need novels to read like>I am Badcharacter McBadman! And I'm going to do this thing. NARRATOR: That thing is VERY VERY BAD. Badcharacter is a BAD PERSONor they have multiday chimpouts like currently, where Kuang's own audience is cancelling her because she didn't say "The Israeli pianist, whose mother country is currently bombing the fuck out of Gaza, which is very, very bad, and I don't like that, played at the concert"
>>25259683> "The Israeli pianist, whose mother country is currently bombing the fuck out of Gaza, which is very, very bad, and I don't like that, played at the concert"This is hilarious and true. This is what decades of “erm the CURTAINS WERE FUCKING BLUE” led to.
>>25259683>NARRATOR: That thing is VERY VERY BAD. Badcharacter is a BAD PERSONYellowface and that dragon girl trilogy were not like that though.Babel was 100% insufferable "did you know colonialism is bad???"
>>25258002Rowling keeps rolling in the dough while dunking trannies on twatter though. It's not like she regrets it.
>>25259795are you 18
