The Trouble with Sombreros:
The Trouble with Sombreros:
Novelist Lionel Shriver's speech expressing her hope that identity politics and the concept of cultural appropriation would turn out to be passing fads contains a kernel of truth encased by a husk of cultural and historical blindness. It seems clear that one part of the fiction writer’s job is “to step into other people’s shoes.” But to paraphrase Freud, sometimes a hat is more than just a hat. Sometimes it is a symbol—and a racist one, at that.
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