The Danger of the Universal “We”(or “They” or even “You”)

Ellen Oh’s recent post, “Dear White Writers” received a thoughtful response from my friend Roxanne Feldman (who is originally from Taiwan, that is Chinese American), “Dear Ellen Oh, You Are Not Me!” In particular, Roxanne wondered who Ellen wasreferring to in her “we”when she wrote “Yes We Need Diverse Books. But that doesn’t always mean that we want YOU to write them.” Roxanne responded that she, “….often find[s] sweeping generalization of all kinds problematic”something that is true for me...