I've been refining my take after reading some interpretation and explanations and this is final take:
Not every book will or should be for a white audience. It should cater to whoever they want. But the tweet also also seems to assume that every non white person has sufficient knowledge of their own culture to understand everything being written. Of course maybe that kind of person is not the intended audience which is also fine, but it's a bit alienating to be told that you're not entitled to learn about your own culture just because some random :lmayo: might benefit from a free translation
And no, this is not written by some mad white guy who doesn't understand what shawarma means. It's coming from an Asian immigrant who's far removed from his culture with little resources in English to learn about it.
This is a :LIB: issue for :LIB: brains and :LIB: bear dot net fell for it hook line and sinker. If the author doesnt want to add footnotes fine. Usually the readers if they enjoy the book enough will do their own footnotes and post it online if they want others to read it.
But i dont even understand the context of where the statement comes from. Like nobody has ever said mayos are entitled to footnotes. Footnotes are added so book is readable by more people so it sell more. Its not about mayos being entitled to anything its just about shifting more units cos we live in capitalism last I checked and authors wanna sell more book to make money which can be used for goods and services.
It's about virtue signalling, and also "going viral" on Twitter so you can shill your latest book.
It's got nothing to do with anything.
There was a similar thread a while back saying "don't write vampires having secret cabals because it's anti-Semitic" and then having a link to their book "which has vampires written by a Jewish person".
You are literally being sold an ideology, you stupid libs.