inalasahl (![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} inalasahl) wrote in ![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} metafandom,@ 2009-03-07 21:27:00 |
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Saturday, March 7, 2009
- naominovik: what ought to go without saying but doesn't - I also hope that my own works don't make anyone want to beat their head against a wall, for this or for that matter any other reason. But if they do and you feel like saying so or why, here or elsewhere, while I can't promise to respond because that's dependent on the limitations of my time & energy, I do promise to treat you and your opinion with respect, and if it's in a space I control, not to let people jump on you for having criticism to offer. -
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matociquala: I've made a lot of mistakes in recent da - I was wrong. I handled a lot of things badly, and I'm not interested in being defended.//Mostly, I'm just not interested in hurting anyone further than I already have. Especially the various people whose opinions I respect who have been devastated by this whole mess. It's been a nightmare from the start, and it seems that nothing I have done--explaining myself, keeping silent--has done anything but make it worse and more tragic.//And so I come to the Zen answer, which I see should have been my first response rather than my last one: "Don't just do something! Sit there."//I shall sit, and hope for the best for my fellow travelers, who I have harmed, and which harm I cannot undo. -- seperis: more on racefail - I speak for myself entirely when I say, suddenly becoming the most enlightened person on the fucking planet due to this would not make the escalating nightmare this has been for so many people worth it. Speaking for myself, sitting here in comfortable privilege and mulling how much new material I have to read, I'm ashamed that in this, I had nothing to lose and everything to gain and I've profited immensely by way of clicking links like some progressive online course. And I have to be grateful, and sickened by it. -
- bethbethbeth: Poll: Cross-gen Relationships - This question was sparked by a story I was reading this afternoon, but it's one I often wonder about - mostly in terms of fictional scenarios (although if you happen to really know a 5000 year old Immortal, let me know please). -
- moondancerdrake: I will not be silenced - I know the costsâ¦I know the dangersâ¦but I love my community, my family, and myself far too much to be silenced ever again. Stick your head in the sand if you want to, I choose to stand in the sunshine and shout toward the future where all can hear me. -
- kynn: Good summaries of "RaceFail '09" - If you've just seen me ranting now and then about tangential things, and you don't know what this huge "racism" kerfluffle is about, here's a good summary written by popelizbet.//There are others out there too -
- serrana: Nobody can get any sleep, there's someone on everybody's toes. - Part of being an adult is accepting that it's okay to say, "I did that wrong, can we talk about how I can fix it?" . . . I don't think fiction writing is all that different than what I do on the job. -
- daniidebrabant: ...so I had to say something at somepoint: RF'09 - It's not advantage or privilege; it's experience. It's having this be an intrinsic part of life, every day, no matter what. And if that experience means that someone can talk about a subject with a bit more weight than you? SUCK IT UP. You might learn something. Maybe next discussion, you'll have the experience. And we'll listen. But when you dismiss other people's experience, people tend to dismiss yours. It's this thing. -
- mattador: If silence means approval, then I need to say something. - I'm not the best or most conscientious debater, and I don't know if I deserve to be called a white ally or an anti-racist, although I try, but every time I saw a tone argument used to dismiss the concerns raised by a POC, it became easier and easier to sympathize with one side of the debate, and harder and harder to identify with the defensive white people. -