Hilarious Self-Censorship by Karen Miller

[jordan179]

Karen Miller, who to my astonishment I found was actually a published fantasy writer, penned the following astonishing comment, as karenmiller, (http://jaylake.livejournal.com/1692287.html?view=15231359#t15231359) onto lakeshore's journal.

... the thing for us

Comments

[polaris93]

Oh, and then there's the fact that what she's urging, that we Westerners leave the aboriginals alone and not study or report on them, is sort of like locking the barn door about three years after the horse was stolen. There must literally be tons of material available about Australian aborigines collected by anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, adventurers, forensics experts, tourists writing home, you name it -- and today, a good deal of that tonnage is in electronic form, which translates to maybe several gigatons of it in hard-copy form! You almost don't have to do any direct studies of them at all, these days, just head for the library or go online and start googling and you'll find endless amounts of information on every single aspect of aboriginal culture, biology, behavior, whatever you want to know about. So what does she want people to do -- burn their library cards and destroy their computers?

[jordan179]

We could then adopt a Tasmanian Solution, which would pretty much ensure that no Westerners ever ineptly presented Aboriginal culture in the future. Of course, I don't think that the Australian Aboriginies would like this policy ...

[polaris93]

If I remember correctly, the Tasmanian Solution entailed wiping out the native Tasmanians. Yep, that would do it all right. And no, I don't think the native Australians would like that, either. But that lady might very well like that idea -- after that, she'd could spend endless hours hating the ones who carried out the solution she proposed, even as she rejoiced because we wouldn't be bothering the Australian aborigines ever again. I mean, that scenario is no more convoluted than the other types of doublethink that such idiots engage in all the time.

[haikujaguar]

Hmm. Where is this person and people like her when people fail to respect my culture or beliefs? :,

[marycatelli]

You're not an Approved Victim Group, I deduce. Therefor, calling on you to beat your breast and offer them reparitions for injuries that they didn't suffer and you didn't inflict.

[haikujaguar]

I suppose. I don't look like a minority, but I am. I'm part of a minority group that has more complicated internal differences than people outside it assume (like most minorities), and yet people make the wrong assumptions constantly about me because of it.

It gets tiresome to hear 'you can pass so you don't count' at the same time as 'ooh, you're one of those minorities, get in your box.'

[pogo101]

This reminds me a bit of an acquaintance who opposes all farmers' shooting of predators caught in the act of attacking farmers' domestic livestock, like a fox caught running off with a chicken. Reason given? The foxes were there first.

[haikujaguar]

[pogo101]

I guess I can't take penecillin. I mean, the bacteria were here first.

[haikujaguar]

*cries*

I Can Has Self-Censorship Too?

[x_eleven]

... the thing for us non-Furry writers is that Furries don't want us using their stuff. And given that theirs is a living, breathing, current culture, my feeling is that if they say, Hands off please, to not respect that is the height of arrogance. By a very long way we've not always done well by the Furries -- to leave their spiritual and creation beliefs alone is the least we can do. Being a writer doesn't give me carte blanche to take what I like from these people just because there's no law to stop me. And certainly not under the convenient excuse that I'm an artist and all is fair game to me in my exercise of artistic expression. That, to me, is indeed the height of cultural appropriation and unseemly insensitivity and distasteful privilege.

Hands off our culture!

Re: I Can Has Self-Censorship Too?

[jordan179]

Fact is: I've seen more furbash BS on liberal blogs than I ever saw on conservative ones. Stupid, stupid moonbat.

I have been criticized on liberal blogs for simply being friends with Furries. So I know what you mean.

My suspicion is that liberals are very bigoted, which is why they are so obsessed with making up formal rules against criticizing "disadvantaged" groups, and also why they behave very hatefully toward any Acceptable Targets.

Re: I Can Has Self-Censorship Too?

[x_eleven]

"My suspicion is that liberals are very bigoted..."

It's not a suspicion with me. I know it for a fact. Take a look at this post:

Here's what you need to do, Cloudchaser. Go into a public place with a friend, and just let it out. You want to scream "OBAMA IS A NIGGER" so badly, yet you repress yourself and we have to deal with you. The friend is there to explain to passers-by that it's part of your therapy. Maybe then there will only be a small mob that wants to beat you up.

You get bonus Internet points if you do this, say, in the Watts neighborhood in L.A.

You clearly cannot do subtlety, so just let it out. It's the healthy thing to do.

Clicky

Here, he's saying that Blacks are savages that can be driven into murderous rages by mere words. I'm sure he'd find a lot of agreement with that premise on the Stormfront forums

Re: I Can Has Self-Censorship Too?

[houseboatonstyx]

Not quite a model of a liberated woman.

[korgmeister]

Wait, is aboriginal culture a "living, breathing, current culture" or one that got totally ruined by colonialism?

Because I've heard both and they can't both be right.

[x_eleven]

George Orwell referred to that as "double think" -- the ability to hold mutually exclusive opinions while believing both at the same time. It's just that you need more practice.

The main problem is that liberals thought 1984 was a "how to" manual and not a warning.

[expectare]

The main problem is that liberals thought 1984 was a "how to" manual and not a warning.

Orwell was a socialist...

[jordan179]

Orwell was a socialist...

... and former Communist. But he had become disgusted at the turn the Left had taken through the Soviet Union.