2009 - Year of the Bigot continues.
Some time ago, a writer (whose work I have not read, so cannot discuss) wrote an article about writing characters of other races, pointing out the need to be sensitive. It seemed a harmless enough article, although, as I pointed out to her, I write people as individuals, not as representatives of a race, so for me, it's not a matter that arises. There is not, for example, an African American way of being in love that differs from anyone else's.
However, the harmless article was followed by hysterical attacks by a group of self-appointed PC police, seeking attention. I stayed out of it, assuming that eventually they would all find some other easy target for their venom. However, when someone called Cimness started talking about how pale-skinned writers get "cookies" and (forgive the circumlocution, but the term she used was racist in the extreme) writers with darker skins do not, her arrogance, hypocrisy and equivocation angered me, especially as real oppression, which kills people and doesn't merely bruise a few middle class egos, was much on my mind. She said she wasn't attacking the writer, but then did attack her, joining in what those who do not know dogs tend to call a dog-pile. No dogs ever behave like that.
1,284 people dead in Gaza, 13 Israelis dead, all because of racial and religious bigotry and greed for land and this airhead wants more "cookies" to be distributed according to the darkness of the skin!
I'd love to know how to identify skin-colour by reading blogs. Unless they have told me, or posted a photo, I don't know the ethnicity of anyone on my friendslist, nor do I care.
Anyway, I made a comment, rather tame by my standards. Soon after, I was replied to by one Folklorefanatic. She accused me of dismissing real, offline pain. She obviously didn't understand a word I said. I wasn't dismissing anyone's pain, but of course, even the "white" people she hates so much are capable of feeling pain.
In one of her rather incoherent replies, she accused the writer they are all attacking of "denying her whiteness." That's one of the key phrases of the PC nutters. They also accuse darker-skinned people and women of "denying their victimhood" or, as anyone speaking English would put it, "getting on with life without blaming all failures on racism or patriarchy." The writer in question does not deny being white, she self-identifies as white.
These PC people are on a vast ego-trip. That in itself is fine. If they want to sit at home feeling all special because they have perfect views (by their definition, obviously) on every culture, fine. When they take to cyber-bullying, they must expect to be challenged.
When they themselves slip into racist rants as Folklorefanatic did, they show themselves to be bigots and hypocrites, and everyone knows how much I love dealing with those.
However, the harmless article was followed by hysterical attacks by a group of self-appointed PC police, seeking attention. I stayed out of it, assuming that eventually they would all find some other easy target for their venom. However, when someone called Cimness started talking about how pale-skinned writers get "cookies" and (forgive the circumlocution, but the term she used was racist in the extreme) writers with darker skins do not, her arrogance, hypocrisy and equivocation angered me, especially as real oppression, which kills people and doesn't merely bruise a few middle class egos, was much on my mind. She said she wasn't attacking the writer, but then did attack her, joining in what those who do not know dogs tend to call a dog-pile. No dogs ever behave like that.
1,284 people dead in Gaza, 13 Israelis dead, all because of racial and religious bigotry and greed for land and this airhead wants more "cookies" to be distributed according to the darkness of the skin!
I'd love to know how to identify skin-colour by reading blogs. Unless they have told me, or posted a photo, I don't know the ethnicity of anyone on my friendslist, nor do I care.
Anyway, I made a comment, rather tame by my standards. Soon after, I was replied to by one Folklorefanatic. She accused me of dismissing real, offline pain. She obviously didn't understand a word I said. I wasn't dismissing anyone's pain, but of course, even the "white" people she hates so much are capable of feeling pain.
In one of her rather incoherent replies, she accused the writer they are all attacking of "denying her whiteness." That's one of the key phrases of the PC nutters. They also accuse darker-skinned people and women of "denying their victimhood" or, as anyone speaking English would put it, "getting on with life without blaming all failures on racism or patriarchy." The writer in question does not deny being white, she self-identifies as white.
These PC people are on a vast ego-trip. That in itself is fine. If they want to sit at home feeling all special because they have perfect views (by their definition, obviously) on every culture, fine. When they take to cyber-bullying, they must expect to be challenged.
When they themselves slip into racist rants as Folklorefanatic did, they show themselves to be bigots and hypocrites, and everyone knows how much I love dealing with those.