To anyone who thinks...

[buggery]

...that the community moderators of daily_deviant have responded to the mess they've created for themselves in a reasonable way:

Here, for contrast, is an example of an *appropriate* response to make after discovering that you have behaved in a racist manner and thereby offended others.

When I came across the above-linked post, I knew it would eventually be useful for future situations where somebody in fandom acted like a big dumb racist and wasn't willing to own up to it. (I was hoping it would take *more than a week* for the next such occasion to happen.)


Other than that, I don't have much to contribute to the discussion; I was asleep when the excrement struck the ventilation device, so other people have already said most of what needs to be said, and probably better than I would've done anyway. As is often the case, liviapenn has compiled an excellent listing of links to other posts about the issue.

[Edited to add: Inspired by aubergineautumn's comments here, I have created a new macro. Feel free to take and use; credit is appreciated but not necessary, just don't let me catch anyone claiming it as their own.]

Comments

[teratologist.livejournal.com]

If aubergineautumn isn't a troll, zie ought to be the topic of James Loewen's next book all by hirself.

[sparklebutch.livejournal.com]

Semi-OT but gotta share this:
on the news all day (I shouldn't be watching the news), groups of white, overweight South-African men in large vehicles carrying weapons, chasing after small groups or individual black men and women who are running on a dirt road. They chase them back and forth, then gather them on trucks, cuff them with those plastic thingies, and take them away.

You know what, regardless of reasons (eh) and context, this is just shudder-making.

On trans and colour issues

[sparklebutch.livejournal.com]

http://www.colorlines.com/article.php?ID=265&limit=0&limit2=1000&page=1

[dawn77dawn.livejournal.com]

Yeah!

[sttarr79.livejournal.com]

WTF?

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