I love my flist for it already said everything I might want to say about the first solid news we get on the cast of the Avatar live action movie : here, and here, and here, and god why hereIs there some kind of rule that says liveaction fantasy must be pasty white regardless of the BLATANT pointers in the text/animated canon about the fact that ( Read more... )

Hi. My username is etrangere, and I'm probably a racist.

Basically one big fucking word to what carlanime said over there.

As long as we are not willing to admit those things to ourselves and to others, no matter how embarrassing it is, and act in consequences, racism will go on. Saying "I am not a racist" (especially if you follow it with a "but..." >_>;;) is not

This is a subject I almost posted about a few months ago, during the latest HP racism merry-go-round (not the Christmas and antisemitism one which I was too busy being swamped under work to properly follow which is a shame because it looked pretty interesting and I missed some excellent post and could link to only one of them), and eventually didn' ( Read more... )

Note for self 1: Do not participate in discussions about racism / sexism before going to bed. It makes you belligerent instead of sleepy.

Note for self 2: I wish I could find again that macro with that snowman melting and the "oh noes! it's so hard to be white" legend.

Nobody likes being called a racist. That holds true as well when you're being explained very nicely and politely that something you said could, in certain circumstances, be interpretated as racist. It's an upsetting accusation. It's one of the thing we typically think of as EVIL, right along the Godwin point and rape ( Read more... )

Stolen from harrytheheir's journal, but I'd just have to share the new :

http://boomka.org/blog/?p=1

Israeli group announces anti-Semitic cartoons contest!A Danish paper publishes a cartoon that mocks Muslims ( Read more... )

From Ursula Leguin's website http://trashotron.com/agony/columns/2004/12-15-04.htm

Most of the characters in my fantasy and far-future sf books are not white. They're mixed, they're rainbow. In my first big sf novel, The Left Hand of Darkness, the only person from Earth is a black man and everybody else in the book is Inuit (or Tibetan) brown. In ( Read more... )

snatched from masqthphlsphr

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