Amanda Gorman's white nonbinary Dutch translator forced to quit because they is not Black!

LITERAL VIOLENCE

Just don't translate it then, stops any bridges being built between races. Win for the right wing and for the extreme left wing.

This is just weird.

I am shocked too. We need to put more money into black Dutch translators.

Gorman actually selected the translator herself. Apparently that doesn't cut any ice with the Twitter mob.

It's almost as if the twitter lot are given far to much influence, especially considering how easily it is to manipulate what is tweeted to follow an agenda.

Correction, OP: they ARE not Black, you racist sinner!

And the translator is non-binary, That didn’t matter either.

Way to put the trans back in translator.

Omg, is it really 'they are' even if it denotes a single nonbinary individual?!

I don't understand. Gorman selected this individual, who has won the International Booker Prize, to translate her work, so how does an activist have a problem with this? Isn't there a lesson here about staying in your own lane and policing Gorman's choice or something? Has Gorman commented?

[quote]Omg, is it really 'they are' even if it denotes a single nonbinary individual?! —GermanGayGuy

They are two people, that’s why they are they.

So Gorman chose the translator personally, then someone with 2,700 people tweeted at the right combination of people. Why even pretend this person exists, let them tweet into the wind and throw a temper tantrum alone.

I recently cleaned out my ignored file and had forgotten all about the existence of noted shitstain GermanGayGuy.

Read the article, idiots. The translator was not forced to quit.

I guess I could spend all day on DL writing fake headlines just like our fake German asshole here, but not sure what point there is to it. The few people fooled by this nonsense will have forgotten it happened within 24 hours, tops, and the trolls pushing this lie will be trolling about something else within 15 minutes.

‘Translator’ by Amanda Gorman

In a world of change how can you hate her

I have to say I really like her

I like the power I get when I masturbate her

Here’s a secret I’m a Dyke for her

We should really start using ‘they IS’. Otherwise it’s so confusing.

You might as well say “they be.”

This is literal reverse racism.

“They’s be” r17

First I stub my pinky toe on my bed frame. Now this!

R18 Nope, it's straight up racism. No such thing as reverse racism.

R21 point taken

(S)he should not have backed down.

R14 You should brush up on your reading comprehension. Yes, the translator was pressured into quitting because of the hue and cry over her not being black. That's exactly what the article says.

There are black Dutch people?

Ever heard of Zwarte Piet, r25?

r25 Virgil van Dijk, famous black Dutch soccer player.

Gorman should be taken to task just for choosing a white person in the first place. Doesn't she know how hard black people have it? How dare she.

Amanda Gorman is a de facto racist

What don’t y’all understand? It’s called “racism”. Conservatives aren’t the only bigots. We are fucked as a society with all of these assholes on both sides arguing over skin color and sexuality. That shit shouldn’t matter, but to them it does.

That article is poor. Intentionally or otherwise, the author waited too long to mention that Gorman chose the translator; that's shitty writing.

I was reading the article and wondering what Gorman thought... wondering... wondering.

And, finally, along came the bombshell.

[quote]This is literal reverse racism.

Reverse racism is redundant.

Germangayguy, Surviving Angel and Defacto are what's known as incendiary trolls. They are rightwing. Surviving angel is Anti Sussex trolling , Defacto Pro trump and Germangayguy anti trans. They all posted threads within a short time frame. They all have signatures. They all cross post without signatures in each others posts. You do the math. Go to Surviving Angels latest thread about playing the city. Post 18 on that thread is what it's about. The Sussex interview. These trolls read as professional.

R33 Victim not city. Sorry

I don't think this level of segregation will help any race in the long term.

OP is a Trumpster who is probably busy trying to get Liz Cheney fired for standing up to Trump

And thanks for calling out these trolls, r33! Hate these hypocritical right-wing assholes who bitch about cancel culture while trying to cancel Democracy

It's not like translators are growing on trees in the Netherlands. It does take a certain talent beyond just being able to read both languages. I doubt there is a black translator with the poetic abilities to translate a book of poetry, which is more difficult than prose translation, in the Netherlands. So, basically, they are going to get a worse translation now.

It won't matter if the translation is worse. All that matters here is that the translator will NOT be a white person!

Like you couldn't just use Google Translate for her slop anyway.

Dutch people who might take any interest in Amanda Gorman's "poems" are perfectly able to read her in English. Their English literacy is better than 90% of Americans.'

Why are they even translating that bland poetry? Black led guilt doesn't exist outside of America.

[quote]Dutch people who might take any interest in Amanda Gorman's "poems" are perfectly able to read her in English.

This is, unfortunately, true. The Dutch make us all look stupid. And anyway it's not like Gorman uses big words in her "poetry" either.

OP = obvious racist.

The only time I’ve seen anyone stand up to the Twitter woke mob were JK Rowling and Trader Joe’s. JK has to endure actual death threats (not the “I hope you die” kind either) but commercially she’s still a major success. Trader Joe’s doesn’t give a fuck and is doing fine.

When will other follow suit and say “fuck off” to the dumb social media crowds?

[quote]So, basically, they are going to get a worse translation now.

No they're not. One of the criticisms of choosing Rijneveld was that they had poor experience as a translator and poor English, but they (I'm tryin' here) won the International Booker so it was young literary celebrity + young literary celebrity.

However, they are a lovely writer in Dutch (better than Gorman) and Amanda should have interceded if there really was a connection. Jammer.

[quote}I don't understand. Gorman selected this individual, who has won the International Booker Prize..

In other words, "merit"?

How quaint!

It's all about filling quotas now, no matter what. Get with the left's program!

[quote]I don't understand. Gorman selected this individual, who has won the International Booker Prize..

In other words, "merit"?

How quaint!

It's all about filling quotas now, no matter what. Get with the left's program!

I don't know xer.

De kutwokeheuvel die we beklimmen.

Verbazend... moedig

R14 and R33 are correct.

This is a rightwing troll thread started by a rightwing troll. Bizarrely, OP also pretends to be german and liberal for some reason that's beyond me. And with this particular rightwing troll, I doubt he's actually gay. This is a fraud that's already been thoroughly exposed repeatedly on this site. Here are some choice quotes from past posts by GermanGayGuy:

"Woke people are the worst. I hope covid mutates and kills all the perma-triggered snowflakes from Wokeistan!"

"Democrats and deplorables just suck equally!"

"Liberal, white Americans are so exhausting. I never thought I'd say that, but I think I hate them as much as I hate Deplorables, maybe even more, because I am more attached in culture and thought to liberals."

He has also promoted an 'influencer' for the homophobic, neo-nazi 'educational institution' PraegerU.

It's probably not a coincidence that over a half dozen different threads devoted to trashing transgender people have been bumped all morning (when usually it's two or three threads at a time being focused on for that are devoted to hate-mongering around that particular group)

R25 Yes, they live in Aruba.

Actually, they live in Rotterdam.

“Dey’s be”

Twitter wants to divide society

[quote] If you cannot achieve equality of performance among people born to the same parents and raised under the same roof, how realistic is it to expect to achieve it across broader and deeper social divisions?

Can't Amanda copy and paste her own poems into Google Translate? Or get an intern to do it?

Thanks, r51

I always felt GGG was suspect (and certainly not German) but I couldn't put my finger on exactly why

R57

My pleasure

I am really German and really gay and I am not transphobic. How can I prove that to you?

And that user Ooze hates me!

So who would have an interest in pushing the false story that Amanda herself fired the Translator because he's not Black???

Look who’s trying to stay in the news, and the media facilitating that.

That poor skinny Black girl!

Apparently there is a young black female native Catalan speaker just out there waiting to be found!

[quote]forced to quit because they is not Black!

"Oh my!" a la puissance treize!!!

Ok people. This isn't "the Aleph" or some deeply complex work. There aren't deep historical allusions or rhyming patterns that need to be realized and perfected in a different language.

It's getting ridiculous.

She just seems like a fraud to me. There's nothing there. Her work sounds like anything you can read on Twitter, strung together.