Some Thoughts on Privilege and Fandom
So, if you're not aware that there has been a distressingly large amount of racefail going on in fandom at large lately, I'm going to have to ask what rock you've been living under. I'm not going to address the specific instances (many, many people have done so brilliantly), but I did want to talk a little bit about how recent events have gotten
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I think a lot of what is wrong with society today is that they say they're teaching colourblindness, but they're not. They're teaching colourmuteness. They're say they're teaching us that black is no different from white, but really they're teaching us that you pretend like there's nothing going on, the problem isn't there if we push it under the rug and don't talk about it.
Yes, I will talk about race, and I will talk about privilege, and I don't care if it's considered PC or not. Because the borders of political-correctness are too sensitive - it's gotten to the point where you can't say black or fairy or housewife without being scared someone's going to jump down your throat. PC has set up all these rules where people are too scared to talk about issues that we're only going to learn from if we talk about them.
(on a slightly different note, apparently studies have shown that once children hit a certain age - it's pretty young, probably around 13 but I'd have to dig up the study to confirm that - you can teach them equality and colourblindness until the cows come home and it won't work. They're most open learning to racial equality before they even hit middle school.)
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