On "Save the Pearls"

Jul 28, 2012 14:07


So... I've had some time to ruminate on this 'book'... "Save the Pearls". I put book in air quotes because this doesn't deserve to be called a book. It's a self serving, poor me, white people are OMG oppressed in this far flung, post apocalyptic, fictitious world so this is totally ok, AMIRITE?! oppression fantasy brought to you.

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biomekanic July 28 2012, 23:11:16 UTC
Maybe she should have called them snowflakes, since they melt in the heat and each one is so unique and different...

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tanyad July 29 2012, 00:33:10 UTC
Perfect zinger is perfect.

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biomekanic July 29 2012, 01:29:33 UTC
God help me, but I think she actually means well. But as God is my witness, she's so spectacularly bad at it, it makes my soul hurt, not to mention my head.

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girly123 July 29 2012, 19:47:30 UTC
If she means well, she only means so for other white people. She's pretty overtly racist.

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lcohen July 31 2012, 19:13:28 UTC
or call the book "clutch the pearls?"

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