I am not and have never been a racist.It is your right to dislike my books. But to portray me as a white author with no understanding of racial bias reflects more on your bias than mine. You don’t know me well enough level such a charge.
You know, it's possible to say/do/write racially clueless things (that are hurtful or offensive) without it being intentional or malicious; it very often isn't, which is why it's so hard to get somecluelessone to recognize what they're doing (and then hopefully stop doing it), especially when said clueless one thinks or does their best to be understanding of all issues, "colour blind", liberal, etc, etc (and likely has not been called out on it before). I or other people don't have to know you well or at all to pick up on these issues in your writings.
There's this comment I came across recently that uses describes racism like pollution (http://laurashapiro.livejournal.com/279323.html?thread=4936219#t4936219): "the vast majority of us aren't going out of our way to create it, but that we can't help breathing it in and being poisoned by it. And sometimes we unwittingly contribute to it. [...]" I don't know if that's easier to understand or get less defensive about.
As for my direct reply to Queenoftheskies, in the blogs and forums I participate on, we do respond to each other directly. She has the right to respond in kind. I thought I had the same right. I guess there are rules to this LJ that I was not aware of.
Are you aware that in LJ-land it's possible to reply directly to specific comments, even ones from earlier? I only ask because I've seen some people confused by the structure of other blogs, where the replies don't thread. (I'm not saying you should tell someone else that they're wrong about you.)
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Date: 2009-08-24 05:32 pm (UTC)You know, it's possible to say/do/write racially clueless things (that are hurtful or offensive) without it being intentional or malicious; it very often isn't, which is why it's so hard to get somecluelessone to recognize what they're doing (and then hopefully stop doing it), especially when said clueless one thinks or does their best to be understanding of all issues, "colour blind", liberal, etc, etc (and likely has not been called out on it before). I or other people don't have to know you well or at all to pick up on these issues in your writings.
There's this comment I came across recently that uses describes racism like pollution (http://laurashapiro.livejournal.com/279323.html?thread=4936219#t4936219): "the vast majority of us aren't going out of our way to create it, but that we can't help breathing it in and being poisoned by it. And sometimes we unwittingly contribute to it. [...]" I don't know if that's easier to understand or get less defensive about.
As for my direct reply to Queenoftheskies, in the blogs and forums I participate on, we do respond to each other directly. She has the right to respond in kind. I thought I had the same right. I guess there are rules to this LJ that I was not aware of.
Are you aware that in LJ-land it's possible to reply directly to specific comments, even ones from earlier? I only ask because I've seen some people confused by the structure of other blogs, where the replies don't thread. (I'm not saying you should tell someone else that they're wrong about you.)