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Amelie Wen Zhao is a Young Adult author whose debut fantasy novel, Blood Heir, was set for a June release from a major publisher, as part of a three-book deal. It received rave preliminary reviews, and was the culmination of a lifelong dream of the authoress, an immegrant from communist China.
The book tasks place in a fantasy world reminiscent of the ancient Far East, where (as in all nonchristian culture, ancient or modern) the institution of slavery is a daily reality.
It seems the profressionally and perpetually outraged NPCs targeted this young leftwing authoress for daring to portray a type of slavery that was not exclusively dark-skinned people enslaved by white-skinned people for work on tobacco plantations.
It was cultural appropriation, or racism, or something.
Terrified at being the subject of a Two Minute Hate, young Miss Zhou pulled the book, and surrendered her lifelong dream.
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