Dog Whistles and Insults ETA II

[zvi_likes_tv]

To clarify: I did not mean to imply that people who take offense at my honkies icon are wrong to take offense or that their offense is illegitimate. People are perfectly within their rights to be mad, and I encourage them to tell me and the rest of fandom that they are mad and exactly why; the solution to speech with which one disagrees is more

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[fox1013]

I don't have anything particularly smart or helpful to say, but I really do respect the hell out of you- for the way you're handling this situation and in general- and figured that with all the crap you're getting, you should be hearing this as often as possible.

So, yeah. You're awesome. That's all I got.

[draconic_rogue]

I don't usually pay too much attention to the prompts over at D_D, half because many of the kinks aren't my kinks and half because I don't get into a lot of the pairings, so I hadn't even really paid attention to the miscegenation prompt until all this was brought up. Even once it was brought up, I had to go look the word up since it wasn't one I was familiar with.

To be completely honest, the first dictionary I looked the word up in only said that it was mixing of races and didn't mention anything about its racist heritage, which left me wondering why it was such a bad word to use. It came off to me as trying to say interracial and sound more educated. But obviously, there wouldn't be such a fuss being made if it were that simple, so I looked it up again and found exactly what you were talking about. And I have to say thank you for being the one to step up and make a difference and educate a large group of fandom.

♥

[hsapiens]

Thank you for bringing the whole issue into the light. LJ is a big place and I'm not in the HP fandom so I wouldn't have seen this "discussion" if you hadn't been willing to take this public. Becoming a better person is a life-long project and you've made me think about a lot of issues in a very real way. I've been reading in my spare moments all day and thinking and doing some self-reflection

[brak666]

You are a much bigger person than I am.