It annoys the hell out of me that the "woke" bloggers at TOR think that diversification of the author's cast of characters improves the story by making it more "accessible" to modern readers/viewers. Why? People of color avoided Lewis and Tolkien because their main characters were English, like them, hence white? A Wrinkle in Time only became "accessible" to people of color when the hideous movie made an Irish-American girl and three old white ladies more diverse?

White writers who write about characters who are non-white are accused of cultural appropriation. Which in all seriousness is why I hated the Alex Cross novels by James Patterson from the very first one. So which way is it? Do we commit cultural appropriation or do we stick to "what we know" and get accused of being exclusionary?