mythago performs a blog dance for your amusement » fail http://www.mythago.com/blog (A figment of everyone's imagination gets back into the blogging thing) Mon, 23 Aug 2010 02:56:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 It would be irony if it weren’t so full of fail http://www.mythago.com/blog/2009/03/12/it-would-be-irony-if-it-werent-so-full-of-fail/ http://www.mythago.com/blog/2009/03/12/it-would-be-irony-if-it-werent-so-full-of-fail/#comments Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:29:35 +0000 mythago http://www.mythago.com/blog/?p=149 So in the wake of RaceFail 2009, John Scalzi rethinks his reflexive “no way am I putting my hand in THAT blender” position, and invites Mary Anne Mohanraj to write a guest blog post. Which she does in a thoughtful, kind, non-blaming, We Can Work It Out sort of way full of linky goodness.

And damn if the thread doesn’t immediately get clunked on by people who amaze you only by their ability to type with fingers jammed firmly in their ears, going OMFG U CALLED ME AN OPPRESSOR!! and “Racism? That’s so twentieth century, darling” and “But shouldn’t we wait for people of color to come to us before we acknowledge they have a role in SF?”

Oh Internets, just once, I would love you to surprise me.

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