a rare meaningful post
I first read about this a couple of days ago and just wow. How wrong can one small group of people (author, artist, betas) be, not simply without trying but without even realizing? And that's not even mentioning the readers who initially had no problem with either the setting of the fic or the racism intrinsic to the story itself. For that matter, the author’s notes alone are problematic.
I’m painfully white. And I know I’m privileged in all sorts of ways, both in those I’m fully aware of and working on as well as ways I don’t know about yet. But everything about this whole thing just makes me feel sick.
If I say or do anything like this (and by this I mean writing something cluelessly racist), guys, please call me on it. I so don’t want to be part of the problem. That's why I'm posting. Or rather, as amazonziti says in her post, "boosting the signal." The more awareness there is, the stronger the chance of eventual change for the better.
I’m painfully white. And I know I’m privileged in all sorts of ways, both in those I’m fully aware of and working on as well as ways I don’t know about yet. But everything about this whole thing just makes me feel sick.
If I say or do anything like this (and by this I mean writing something cluelessly racist), guys, please call me on it. I so don’t want to be part of the problem. That's why I'm posting. Or rather, as amazonziti says in her post, "boosting the signal." The more awareness there is, the stronger the chance of eventual change for the better.