Writing with Privilege: The Lionel Shriver Fallacy
By now, many of you will probably have seen the keynote speech Lionel Shriver gave at the Brisbane Writers Festival. If not, let me sum it up for you. In a nutshell, she claims that people (mostly people from marginalized groups) have taken concerns about cultural appropriation to extremes, and that this “trend” directly hampers a writer’s (and particularly a privileged writer’s) ability to write good fiction. According to Shriver, PC-crazy millennials have demanded that auth
