The entire premise of this book is about a compulsive liar,” said Melanie Cecka, publishing director of Bloomsbury Children’s Books USA and Walker Books for Young Readers, who worked on Liar. “Of all the things you’re going to choose to believe of her, you’re going to choose to believe she was telling the truth about race?” Yes, that's right Ms. White Lady. Never mind that the author herself says the character is mixed/black/African American. Never mind that that fact does inform some of her actions and some of her reality - no matter what the truth is. You just neatly cut out the possibility of the book being about a Person of Colour at all, by claiming 'Yo, it could easily be a white girl lying. Some white girl who wanted to count as 'exotic''. Does this erasure count twice now? In the rest of the article, they get feedback from Texas. Texas. Land of the 'Thurgood Marshall wasn't important enough for us to have to teach anything about him in school' Texas. There are also quotes from someone in Salt Lake City. Now, I'm not saying there are absolutely no black people in either of those places. But I seriously doubt when looking for feedback on whether or not people feel offended by this cover, Austin, Texas, and Salt Lake City are the places to go. So, first Tor, and now Bloomsbury and Walker Books For Young Readers. Someone suggested I try for the Australian copies, published via the Australian publishing house. Of course I can't request non American editions for my library account, which leaves paying for international shipping and buying somewhat in the dark. But that's my problem. I seriously doubt other people will want not to touch anything Melanie Cecka had a hand in. I am sad. Really sad. Not actually depressed yet, I don't think. But each month of 2009 so far has shown the world as an uglier place. I just... Greedy, insular, hateful fuckers, co-opting when they're not ignoring, raping when they're not dismissing, harassing, when they're not unseeing. And they're not all 75 years old and likely to die soon. I think, I think this is me losing any sliver of faith at ALL in -that-. And not having another thing to believe in - yet. But that, American Publishing (America Media, really, though I've still fight left in me for change in movies). I seriously doubt that British and European Publishing is any better. But my lack of faith, the visceral association is with -that-. I recognize this. This is grieving. This is part of the grieving process.
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| 2009-07-17 11:32 |
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"This Country Has Been Built By White Men" - Pat Buchanan
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Yeah.
This is all I got. Seriously America. You need to stop with that 'Texas' Education and get thee to SCHOOL. Or some folks will school you whether you want it or not (Cause you know there are people who BELIEVE that shit)
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Comment snippet by ![[info] - livejournal.com](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif) mcgarrygirl78:
...I kinda feel like the whole post severed a group of people who were thus far enjoying an interracial relationship....I was honestly shocked by how many fans embraced it and loved it. And a hairdo nearly ripped it all apart at the seams...
When someone can make a statement like that, about a post that was discussing race and be so relentlessly focused on their enjoyment, voyeuristically of how they view a relationship - as interracial btw, not inter-species -
Then nobody better fucking asking me why my primary interaction with fandom is pointing out things pissing me the hell off, warning others, and blocking people.
I can't even...
I can't EVEN!
That is some Prime, Grade A, Cornfed, Privilege & Entitlement Honkeyshines right there.
Did you read what she said? Did you read it? Did you click the link and read it? A conversation about race almost destroyed her post-racial shipping community and oh, how awful, because fandom was embracing the black girl in a relationship with the cute white guy...until someone brought up race.
OMG, LOOK AT WHAT THAT COMPLAINING PERSON ALMOST DID....
*watches the clasped pearls and the reach for the iced lemonade*
Makes me want to punch miss thing in the fucking nose. I actually moved past that comment an hour ago and then finally realized I was not going to be successful letting it go. It was too upsetting.
For the record: I do not believe it is anyone's job to educate that cluelessness. No one is paying people of colour to put up with this shit.
Obviously I need to go back to watching Alien Nation, avoiding the news and avoiding non FoC focused fannish anythings. The last won't be too hard since I'm trying to explore GEN, which means moving away from white women hunting down white men they find 'hot' to smut about. Do WoC write the smut too? Yeah. But they tend to include a CoC - if I squint and hold my head sideways, it's far more bearable.
PS: If it is NOT obvious to you that half or three quarters the outrage over a conversation about a black woman's hair, as pertains to race relations of the future/of the current movie industry, is about white women not wanting to be reminded that the female pov character they've got to utilize/identify with if they want to write the grand het romance with Spock, actually IS a black woman - then you need to drop me off your reading list and block my ass. Cause damn, you're stupid, bailing out De'Nial on a failboat. And I call people on that shit. Loudly.
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So says this idiot here.
You know who's not an ally? Someone who decrees that because someone else has a different opinion, they're automatically "clueless".
Do you know what I find frankly obnoxious?
That anyone can lay 'claim' to a culture and 'guard it from appropriation'. Do you know what that sounds like to me? That sounds like all the bible-belt excuses for why my gay friends don't deserve to get married. Or why my trans friends don't /deserve/ to be the gender they feel born to, because somehow they are appropriating or taking away from the "real" women or the "Real" married people.
The OP that you responded to so violently is saying it's prejudicial to assume that with a face comes a culture which frankly, I salute her for. It's prejudicial when people look at a olive colored face and dark eyes and assume they're steeped deep in Hispanic culture. It's prejudicial when someone looks at a girl with Asiatic features and assumes she's steeped deep in the culture when for all anyone knows she may be adopted or her family may simply not have passed that culture along. Or in a real world example, someone looking at my friend's mother, who is POC, and assuming she's white because of how she looks, and assuming that's her culture.
It's not about people reading the culture as a negative-/you're/ the one who came up with that. It's about people assuming that the colour of your skin predicts your life experience-and isn't that what we're all supposed to be fighting against?
Yeah, my decision to treat the white folk I haven't known for at least two years as just another racist? What a nice gold leaf frame of that decision this is. It's prejudicial to treat someone who isn't white, as if, they're not white. I warn though that ![[info] - personal](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) rosefox prefers that people not get tarred and feathered, mocked or scorned up in her LJ. Which is why I'm not commenting there, cause the things I want to say to that stupid ass white girl ( eta:or white identified poc), with her stupid ass ideas that she thinks are deep and insightful - Seriously Tubab. Go read a book. Not that she will. Because it's much easier to believe she already knows everything because she's white and white is right, than to believe that there are people in the world who are offended by WHITE IS THE DEFAULT - YAY UNIVERSAL EQUALITY! Also look how enlightened I [kinfae] am, I'm bringing up Trans and Queer Folk! even though I obviously know fucking nothing about Intersectionality! This just popped up in my email (days late) it should have waited a few more days, really. ETA: I'm a go watch some Leverage and some Roughneck Chronicles & stop clicking on anything on the internet or my email for a while.
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Can you use adblock plus to kill actual websites? Ban them from your browser somehow? Does anyone know of anything one can use to killfile a site?
I would like to make my time on the internet a little less filled with the racist and stupid. I find that every time a race discussion comes around, there's enough of a set of people to call them a crowd or a group who simply have to post about :
a) How they're afraid to get involved because they'll be beaten by the privilege stick for being afraid of being beaten by the privilege stick (called on their shit).
b) How they hope all the people pointing out the racist thoughts are actually also doing something meaningful with their lives, because this is all so pathetic.
c) How all this hooha political correctness is going to result in blander and more boring books where no one writes anything interesting for fear of offending someone.
d) How they're staying away from the wankfest/flamewar/dogpile (cause OMG people are so angry, it's totally flaming)
Everytime a race discussion happens, these comments come out. And I'd like to keep track of who's saying them for the first time out loud/in public and who's said them before, so I can just strike them off my internets.
Come on folks, this has to exist, surely the racists have some version and we can use it to our own ends. I'm tired of the stupid people and if I can't actually shove them in a rocket and send them to WTF land, I'd like to get them off my visual internets. When I do a search or click a link, I want a banner to come up 'THIS LEADS TO HONKEYSHINES' so I can go 'ok then' and move on.
Killfiling in comments does not have the same level of satisfaction as obliterating someone off your internets. And sometimes killfile doesn't even work on some sites.
So suggestions? Ideas? Scripts? Programs? I will spend cash money on a program that would let me do this. I am effing tired of the whiney, pale asses with their racist, white privilege, clueless blathering and self-centeredness. I would also like to killfile off my internets a whole bunch of self congratulatory middle class white feminists who make me want to choke a bitch or not be female because I want nothing in common with them.
I want to ban white privilege fellatio requests off my net time.
I cannot be the only one.
So do I need netnanny or something and then I get to personalize it per website? Is there a Firefox Add On? Do I need effing Firefox (the buggy) 3?
Help me spare my blood pressure and my urges to stab honeky in the neck. Help keep me from straight up hating on some Pale Asses.
Thank you in advance.
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exhausted