lamp on Nostr: If you write about someone that you are different from, the sourpuss saviors can ...

If you write about someone that you are different from, the sourpuss saviors can complain about that.

If you write about a character who is like you, the same sourpuss saviors can complain that you are being exclusionary.

Damned if you do ... damned if you don't.

So if you are a white person writing a story about someone of a different nationality or race, any slanderous sourpuss savior can compare you to a klansman writing about the underground railroad.

Conversely, if you are a white person writing a story about someone of your own race, no doubt slanderous sourpuss savior can claim you are not being cognizant of some other racial group while promoting white-centric narratives.

If you produce a play or film using a black actor to portray a historically white character then some white sourpuss savior can accuse you of trying to blackwash history.

If you produce a play or film using a white actor to portray a historically black character then some black sourpuss savior can accuse you of trying to whitewash history.

If your Jesus painting depicts a white man, you stand accused of creating a colonialist oppressor god.

If your Jesus painting depicts a black man, you stand accused of denying the supremacy of the pale British messiah and his inspired KJV.

If your Jesus painting depicts a swarthy, sun-tanned, bearded Jew, you stand accused as a anti-christian Hebrew supremacist.

The sourpuss saviors of whatever stripe can spin it any way they wish to generate an offense from anything. The primary method for exerting power over others is to accuse them of being against an entire group--then dogwhistle the large group to attack the target.

The cheapest form of accusation is ethnic bias or racism or anything that creates a perceived threat to a group. If you run out of groups to pit against each other, just use propaganda to create more groups for people to percieve, and watch them further fracture into factions. Rulers have used this method for ages (millennia) to divide and conquer the mass of people within imperial orbit.

Damned if you do ... damned if you don't. The 'double-dammy whammy'. The sourpuss saviors say your salvation is assured by your silence (sometimes) or your shouts of support (if said shouts never stop) as long as your words never question who is creating and labeling the contestant groups in the first place.

You asked, "Why?"

Accusation is the cheapest path to exerting power over others. The sourpuss saviors must have an enemy to perpetuate the fantasy of eternal victimhood ... their key to power over you ... they are the victim tribe and you are the oppressor tribe and so you must pay (forever).

Everything must be an offense; everything must be a critical emergency requiring forceful action agains the chosen enemy; and everything and everyone must be saved or punished by the accuser's ascension to power and authority over you, the "oppressor". The palace of heavenly utopia must have a psychiatric wing.

The Apostles understood well: "... for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night."