I need help in modulating a response: words fail me

[ritaxis]

Warning: really offensive "racial" ideas in a Sims context.  Especially in the linked bit, but the quote is bad enough.

In a Sims forum I read and post to, I saw this request:

(how do you get those lines on the side of a block quote that show it is in fact a block quote and not your own words?  I would hate to have anybody think I wrote this stuff)

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[trinker]

Would you like me to pass this on to the various NDN people I have on my f-list?

[ritaxis]

If you can express to them the tightrope I want to walk, yess, please.

[trinker]

I've thought about this some more, and seeing the approach you're taking...I think it would be unfair to my friends to ask them to swallow down enough outrage to give a politic response.

OTOH...the feathers? I think she needs to lose those feathers.

http://mycultureisnotatrend.tumblr.com/post/1219050955/i-recieved-a-flood-of-angry-notes-and-messages-after

(I personally find her stripper costume troubling - there's nothing wrong with provocative clothing qua provocative clothing, but in the context of exoticising and Othering, I think there's a whole lot of wrong.)

[ritaxis]

here's nothing wrong with provocative clothing qua provocative clothing, but in the context of exoticising and Othering, I think there's a whole lot of wrong

Yes, that's the thing I'm trying to express. How do I tell a person who knows nothing what this means?

A person I suspect of being a teenager possibly from a place where the whole continent of America is a faraway, exotic thing . . .

[trinker]

"Reducing living, breathing people into sex toys, when they didn't volunteer for it, and when they don't get treated with respect in their real lives, is hurtful to the people those sex toy caricatures represent."

...?

[ritaxis]

Exactly why I am uncomfortable with real people slash!

[trinker]

me, too.