Dear racefail apologists

Mar 16, 2009 13:43

Please stop making the argument from capitalism. It is so dumb it causes my brain to attempt to flee my skull and look for shelter. Most recently seen in the comments in Tempest's post @ Scalzi's Whatever, here is a typical example:#118: Publishers aren’t in the book publishing business to lose money. If SCI-FI readers are overwhelmingly white and all white people are racists then why shouldn’t publishers take that fact into account?

What I think1 you think you think you're saying: "That's the way the world is, there's no sense getting upset about it."2

What you are actually saying, no really: "Anything that makes a profit is okay with me!"

Actions you would theoretically be okay with, by this logic:
  • Murder for hire
  • Any murder for profit
  • The forced prostitution of women and children
  • The theft of your kidneys and their subsequent sale on the black-market
If you are actually okay with any of these, then I despair of you as a human being. (Well, okay, I'll withhold judgement on the kidneys thing, but your self-esteem seems in a perilous state.)

THINK HARDER BEFORE BEING RACIST.3

1. I could be wrong, who knows! Maybe you mean "I am from Mars and your Earth customs are adorable!"
2. Also this is incredibly stupid. This logic can be used to justify anything, post hoc: "Women die in childbirth because doctors handle corpses before they attend deliveries! That's just the way it is, there's no sense getting upset." ALTERNATIVE SUGGESTION: MAYBE DOCTORS COULD WASH THEIR HANDS.
3. And then don't.

rant: race

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