Samuel Bailey, Sensitivity Readers, Social Media Satire
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Why Do You Use Afghani?
In my novel, i use the word afghan and afghani to describe people from that country. And a few readers sent me messages saying, why do youuse afghani? It's wrong. But in fact, it really showed the ignorance of the white, western engio workers. I don't disagree with terthat sensitivity. Reading is a form of copy editing. There was a re s in character who was going to a series of parties. And i was able to say, there's no where wilceser could go to aseries of parties and be able to get into them all. This was a really well thought out character, but the author, with no experience
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