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First, fandom managing to be racist and unapologetic about it, all in one fic-prompt: The whole mess, neatly summed up by witchqueen. The level of ass-hattery exhibited by the mods of daily_deviant is quite astonishing, really
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I have no issues with any of that, but - witchqueen wasn't calling for them to remove the prompt, or anything of the sort - just to clarify what they meant. I mean, I support including all your list of pairings in comms, but only if they are properly labelled. So Ginny/Dean, for instance, shouldn't have a label that says 'inter-racial and/or inter-species pairing' and be listed alongside Harry/giant squid, which is what they've essentially done.
Personally, if I'd been in the mods' position, I'd have done the following -
1) Apologised for the offense caused.
2) Changed the prompt so it included a disclaimer, stating that this word is racially-charged, however it is included in the book they're using. Therefore, they will include it as a prompt, but the definition that people should use is x, y, and z, (linky link) and they wish to stress that they do not intend offence.
3) Included an email for people to contact a mod if they still feel the need to discuss it.
But that's just me.
Did you find the dog-whistle analogy as shocking and (dare I say it) offensive as I did?
I'm finding the whole situation shocking, actually. Not people's reactions, but the vitriol dripping from both sides. People have really gone off on me for daring to be offended (even though that label is basically talking about people like me!), which was... interesting.
Rock. That sounds like exactly the sort of thing my brother and I would do.
I may pick your brain on that! *g*
The school teaches a mish-mash of Native American, Voodoo, Eastern European, and every other type of magic ever imported,
That would be awesome. There's a comm out there - hpmugglestudies - that's going to have a fest on magic world-building. I was going to do stuff with eastern european magic - mainly slavic traditions - but this would so totally fit in with it all, SIGN UP IMMEDIATELY ZOMG!!
I may not be explaining this well; I need sleep, also. But I will have ice cream first. XP
*nods* ice-cream is of the good.
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