I find it interesting that the furor over American Dirt came to be focused on "the author was too white, may have gotten some details wrong, and wrote two or three cherrypicked lines referencing a character’s brown skin". My problem with it was that the characters chosen to allegedly represent those desperately seeking entrance into the US were well-off and middle-class instead of the poor and marginalized who are actually the majority of migrants seeking asylum. In other words, it was clearly written so members of the Comfortable Class could empathize without having to deal with the unpleasant reality. Not that this is unusual in the corporate publishing industry now scrambling to "atone" for having ignored writers of color until it became financially useful not to. Those acquiring fiction are still members of the Comfortable and Professional classes who can't relate to the lives of the poor, and acquisition is and always will be subjective. Still it says a great deal about the ethical poverty of "cancel culture" that it's applied not for what may be real reasons but simply because someone has violated the accepted range of approved narrative.