How Not To Contribute

[amonitrate]

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, FORMATTING, WTF? APOLOGIES, TRYING TO FIX LJ-CUT

AHEM. APPARENTLY LJ-CUT DOES NOT LIKE BLOCK QUOTE.

Unless You Want To Be An Example Of What Not To Do

Responding to the Race Fail 09: how not to do it. (gerriwritinglog via metafandom)

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[splash_the_cat]

Oh! Did you see where the whole post is really an experiment to improve her writing about race? http://gerriwritinglog.livejournal.com/102253.html?thread=132205#t132205

The rage, it BURNS.

[amonitrate]

I would ask that if you take away one thing from this thread, it's that it's not enough to say "You don't understand." Follow up with "Let me tell you about what happened to me."

Oh, that's handy, given that in the original post she said that people who did just that were whining:

What sets me off every time is the pity whine "You don't know what it's like to grow up (insert ethnicity here). You're white, so you don't understand my paiiiinnnnnnnn!" Yeah, whatever.

huh.

[amand_r]

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[amand_r]

This is a good thing, BTW. Not mocking. Just. Wow that chick. Wow.

[amonitrate]

Yeah, it would have been less surprising/enraging if it had happened, say, in January. But no one has the excuse to make a post like this now. Not if they even nominally have been following the conversation, as she claims to have done.

[amonitrate]

Thank you. Yeah, I fall into the We Are All Americans thing wayy too often. This country is so self-obsessed and insular that fighting against that is an uphill, never-ending battle that I lose constantly with myself. American Exceptionalism: It's What's For Dinner.

The concept of safe space has been really enlightening to me. Because the only time I've not felt safe (literally and figuratively) is in gendered situations, but I'm oblivious to it the rest of the time.