the people who think james and hbomberguy's whiteness do not matter in this context are just telling how little they know of the workings of race and white privilege in the world. If it didn't matter, that man wouldn't have gotten away with his plagiarism for so long, and creators of color wouldn't have been afraid to speak up against him. Claiming that "race has nothing to do with it" is at best ignorant and at worst malicious, if you go to any environment of cultural production you will find piles of cases of white creators/scholars/whatever failing to give credit to their racialized peers, and a lot of those times these plagiarism cases go hand in hand with other instances of racism. Sorry you get uncomfortable by being made to acknowledge your own privilege, but we're GONNA talk about race in EVERY conversation. SPECIALLY when it involves creation and cultural production.
