Disability/Race/Community

Aug 25, 2008 18:45

I'm sure many of you have heard about the movie "Tropic Thunder", which stars Robert Downey Jr. in blackface and Ben Stiller portraying an intellectualy disabled individual. Many activists in the disabled community have protested this movie (including myself), and rightfully so. However, I'm getting sick of hearing "How come people get all bent ( Read more... )

disability awareness, intersectionality, race, racism

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igiveyoumylife August 26 2008, 00:11:55 UTC
incest?

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crafting_change August 26 2008, 10:59:05 UTC
What was this one word comment meant to convey?

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sunnies August 26 2008, 11:34:14 UTC
I'm assuming she is bewildered by the "incest" tag, as was I.

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igiveyoumylife August 26 2008, 17:07:28 UTC
If you look at the tags you'll see why.

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crafting_change August 27 2008, 01:20:19 UTC
The tag has since been removed. If you could please be less obtuse... saying 'hey was the incest tag necessary' could have been helpful.

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bluhairedmonky August 26 2008, 17:33:32 UTC
Those are not the tags I put down, so I have no idea what that tag is there for. Mods?

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ebay313 August 26 2008, 18:16:11 UTC
The set up is that any member can add tags to a post (from the tags that have already been created for use in the community), this helps make sure things get tagged for different things.
I'd assume someone went to add "intersectionality" and clicked the "incest" tag by mistake, since the two would be near each other both starting with "i".
Or whatever the reason, I removed that tag from this entry.

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bluhairedmonky August 26 2008, 21:47:17 UTC
Ok! Thank you.

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