To Borrow A Leaf from Shakesville

[jhameia]

Because Ottens continues to be a dipshit:

I feel compelled to tell you this:

I am not offended.

I am contemptuous.

Contemptuous of the fact that you choose to dismiss the very real harm these attitudes propagate on very real people. Contemptuous that you think your entertainment is so much more important than the daily discrimination people who look like me face. Contemptuous of the fact that you think your intent to mean no disrespect actually matters in the face of the hurt you cause. Contemptuous that you insist on defending what we, members of the affected marginalized groups, have said, time and again, is a really harmful idea.

"Offended" isn't the word. Try "angry". Try "baffled". Try "unsurprised at racism". (And able-ism, hey ho!)

But most of all, contemptuous.

ETA: Ottens has used this post as an example of name-calling being targeted at him. This being my personal space, I am not going to apologize for what I say out of very real anger at him being disrespectful towards me and mine. The difference is, I use direct insults, and he blankets his disrespect behind intellectual words and privilege.

Comments

[shweta-narayan.livejournal.com]

It's reminding me of the "ironic" racist illustrations in an academic feminist's book a couple years ago, and the Shock, shock that women of color would feel Othered at this, since The white feminists' Hearts Were Pure And It Was Irony, and anyone who was hurt had no sense of humor.

I'm generally boggled at how hard to understand "You don't get to decide that your "fun" perpetuation of racism doesn't hurt anyone, the people you hurt decide that" seems to be.