Is That Story Yours to Tell?

From Roundfiled:  TV characters, beliefs, empathy, and art.

Go on and do it, but admit a little thing, first: You are not atheists. You believe in gods. Your gods are as capricious and vengeful as any gods have ever been, but they are always on the side of white. They have that much in common with the European old gods–yeah, even the ones who frown on abortion and enthusiastic consent and women who show ankles and whatever all else warmed-over Victorian-ladies shit y’all claim to care about: Your gods are not that different. Your gods are not renegades. They do as much harm, and the reason you don’t care is that they do it to people who are not you. This does not make you better.