Not to burst your bubble or anything, but part of the reason the reaction is different here is because the fan cultures involved (and make no mistake, there are at at least two different fan cultures here, that of media fandom and traditional science fiction fandom [with a lot of people crossing over with comics fandom, and some other people working with general anti-racist issues]) is that this sort of discussion has been recurrent and part of the discussion has been dissection of why Bingo discussions are illegitimate.
I also find it curious (and I have no experience with the child-lit ml outside of the context of Kaplan's book, so I may have a totally inacurate picture) that there is a single person who serves point on the issue in childlit. In the fandoms, there are groups of people who speak to these (as well as related issues of feminism, queerness, genderqueerness, Judaism, and, increasingly, ablism and American cultural supremacy.) I think that helps us with burn out, but it also means there are (a) a wider variety of viewpoints on these issues and (b) it helps it to be less a question of a single person's personality. I mean, from the way you describe it, if Debbie's writing and way of explaining things doesn't work, you won't be learning about these things on child-lit. And I have to wonder if Debbie even tries to address these issues with non-Native cultures. (This is not me saying that she should be responsible for doing so, but if she's not, and she's the only person starting discussions about cultural appropriation, then most of the problematic stuff is sailing by the list unchallenged (unless there is way more child-lit published about Natives than I think there is, which is entirely possible.)
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I also find it curious (and I have no experience with the child-lit ml outside of the context of Kaplan's book, so I may have a totally inacurate picture) that there is a single person who serves point on the issue in childlit. In the fandoms, there are groups of people who speak to these (as well as related issues of feminism, queerness, genderqueerness, Judaism, and, increasingly, ablism and American cultural supremacy.) I think that helps us with burn out, but it also means there are (a) a wider variety of viewpoints on these issues and (b) it helps it to be less a question of a single person's personality. I mean, from the way you describe it, if Debbie's writing and way of explaining things doesn't work, you won't be learning about these things on child-lit. And I have to wonder if Debbie even tries to address these issues with non-Native cultures. (This is not me saying that she should be responsible for doing so, but if she's not, and she's the only person starting discussions about cultural appropriation, then most of the problematic stuff is sailing by the list unchallenged (unless there is way more child-lit published about Natives than I think there is, which is entirely possible.)