For the interested,
jujuberry136 has
good thoughts about those Season 6 Criminal Minds casting spoilers. Well, more like good rants. But I found them very articulate and thought-provoking and I agree with everything she said.
In her extremely excellent
link round-up on the recent unfunny business,
amazonziti said something in
this thread (which is also an excellent
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Racists come in all colors. Just because she's a person of color - as if a white person has no color which is ridiculous because we all colored - doesn't mean that she's not racist just as a white person may be racist as well. Or both of them might not be racist. I'm getting really unhappy that just because a person is white, they are automatically assumed to be racist. And that is racist in of itself.
If the person is in fact racist, go to it; lambast them for it. But don't assume a specific racial type = racist because racism isn't genetic, it's learned.
And that's the end of my speech.
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Because I have, and color me naive, but in there I read nothing but high praise for courage and strength of character of a whole nation struggling to move on forward after a tragedy.
The dog piling as you call it, comes, I think, from the fact that a few people were offended in their own sensitivities (as it is their right) and spoke about that, and somehow, the whole thing turned into a witch hunt.
As a fellow writer, I think that is that later behavior that we need to watch out for.
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Like Calamitycrow says below, discussion about racism is way too important to be treated in the manner it has been in this matter. It's being trivialized and used for other purposes.
And I agree, we do not have the same definition of witch hunt :)
No hard feelings?
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I understand that you weren't offended. But just because you weren't offended personally does not mean that the story wasn't offensive to others.
I really don't see how racism is being trivialized in this discussion or used for any other purpose than to discuss racism.
No hard feelings.
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Yes, people have a right to be angry. If you can't listen to them because they're angry, that's fine. Other people are being very reasonable. It's a big internet. Again, maybe I'm just in the wrong part of the internet, but I've seen more of the latter than the former. And I've appreciated the former, too, because I want to understand and feel for those who are angry. You don't have to read about it at all if you don't want to.
SPN is always being dismissed as crazy, but I think we're crazy-awesome. I'm glad people are talking about this, because I want to listen.
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And I continue to say that that is not the point.
I agree that rational discussion is better, for lack of a better word, than anger and hostility. It might be more productive in the longer-term, easier to read and listen to. But anger has its place and I'm saying that we need to STOP telling people who are hurt and angry to shut up, to watch what they're saying, to think about what would be better in the long term, and to ask them if they want to be part of the solution instead of the problem ( ... )
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This is what people are taking away from the conversation. No; if you have not experienced it, don't write it uninformed. If you wanted to write a 911 call but you've never had occasion to call 911, won't you try to get information about how the call goes ( ... )
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If we are hateful and bigoted towards White people or people from more privileged backgrounds does that not make us racist? What does our intolerance say about us?
I understand what you're getting at: hatred directed at anyone, whether leveled in race-related epithets or not, is a bad thing. However, I think you're misunderstanding the term racist as it's being discussed here - not hatred, but bigotry that can only go one way. It's not an epithet, it's an observation: "that's racist. that springs out of a privileged viewpoint. that's offensive ( ... )
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