Of course, the motivational thrust of the critique more commonly known as the “why doesn’t this white author ever write about people of color” argument has been feeble since the aftermath of Girls, if not Austen; no one wants your Shein haul of Diverse Characters. So it is with an entirely mathematical spirit that I note for you here that, obviously, not once in the essay does Didion concern herself with the history of Hawai‘i as it might be seen by anyone other than this rarified class of pickled whites—least of all native Hawaiians.
