Comments | maychorian: with their crooked stares

maychorian

with their crooked stares

Jun 18, 2010 08:45

For the interested, jujuberry136 has good thoughts about those Season 6 Criminal Minds casting spoilers. Well, more like good rants. But I found them very articulate and thought-provoking and I agree with everything she said.

In her extremely excellent link round-up on the recent unfunny business, amazonziti said something in this thread (which is also an excellent ( Read more... )

racism, criminal minds, incoherent rambling

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tonicollins June 19 2010, 00:28:51 UTC

It's not anyone's "job" to teach other people how to behave. But... if you berate the person who offended you and can't articulate why you're offended beyond typing: that's racist - what do you hope to accomplish?

maychorian June 19 2010, 04:55:35 UTC

You answered your own question. You will have told that person that what they did was racist.

That's worth saying, even if you can say nothing else.

tonicollins June 19 2010, 06:10:33 UTC

I see that you've told that person that you believe what they did was racist. And it may have been, overtly or not, but "because I say so" is hardly going to clue in someone who, maybe, had no idea what they did wrong in the first place.

vikki June 19 2010, 06:40:33 UTC

It's so easy to educate yourself via the Internet that it's sick. So if someone only has the energy to say 'that's racist', well - look around. Ask someone else. Figure it out. It's not hard.

july_july_july June 19 2010, 20:42:19 UTC

This is an excellent derailing tactic covered here.

First of all, you’re placing responsibility for your education back onto the Marginalised Person™. As they are obviously engaged with these issues, and care about them, they are hopeful that Privileged People® may one day start listening and taking onboard what they have to say. By placing responsibility to educate in their hands, you tug at this yearning. You may even successfully make many question themselves and their selfish expectations that you utilise the hundreds upon hundreds of resources on the subject available to you as a Privileged Person®! After all, anyone who expects you to be able to research a topic by yourself also clearly expects you to be far more of a functioning adult than you're acting ( ... )

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