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Debate Score:5
Arguments:6
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Is identity appropriation acceptable in the name of creative expression?

A number of writers, speakers, and other expressive artists will speak from identities which they do not personally possess. For example, a straight white male writing about a gay black woman. Under what conditions would this be acceptable, or is it even acceptable to begin with?

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I write about decent religious human beings all the time, I feel very entitled to do despite being an enraged satanist.

Side: Yes

What's the alternative? A novelist can only use one character, who is themself?

Side: Yes
Jace(5222) Clarified
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Good point. I should have probably posed this as a perspectives debate. What I was trying to get at was whether or not authors or other artists have a responsibility for researching the identities they portray in their work, and where a line might be drawn in what is permissible (if such a line should be drawn at all). To me, appropriation implies a certain lack of such responsibility. Does that clarify?

Side: Yes

I see. I think authors should do whatever research is necessary for realism, but I don't think there's a line to be drawn.

Side: Yes

Yes. Most writers don't want to write about themselves. They want to feel and expierience what its like to be something else and in writing you can do that.

Side: Yes
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