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General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on March 02, 2021, 02:46:28 PM

Title: Shocked by the uproar’: Amanda Gorman’s white translator quits
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 02, 2021, 02:46:28 PM

Can't get my head around getting rid of a translator because of the colour of their skin.


https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2021/mar/01/amanda-gorman-white-translator-quits-marieke-lucas-rijneveld?__twitter_impression=true

Title: Re: Shocked by the uproar’: Amanda Gorman’s white translator quits
Post by: jeremyp on March 02, 2021, 03:15:11 PM

Why not? It's obvious isn't it that the only people qualified to translate African Americans into Dutch are African Americans...

... who can speak Dutch.