mythago » Race http://www.mythago.com/blog performs a blog dance for your amusement Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:25:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Copyright © mythago 2010 mythago@gmail.com (mythago) mythago@gmail.com (mythago) http://www.mythago.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg mythago http://www.mythago.com/blog 144 144 performs a blog dance for your amusement mythago mythago mythago@gmail.com no no 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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