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I haven't wanted to say anything about the "racefail" crap because it's crap and there's no way to address the crappiness of it without getting told that you're saying somethign that you're not.
But eventually I will have to discuss race and the rest, here, in my own terms. Not necessarily racefail -- I'm not a participant in any of the social circles where this has been playing out, so I may not have to engage that at all -- but because I have been reflecting on race, color, language, ethnicity, class and caste with both hands -- I have to: my job (my calling) demands it. I can't avoid it.
I no longer have much ambition to someday get to Wiscon, though. Not because of any particular event, but because it doesn't sound like the exciting intellectual place that it used to sound like. It frankly sounds dreary. And the people who are defending it the most sound the dreariest, though not the only dreary ones. Which is a loss for me, but I haven't even made it to BayCon since the nice fellow died, so the loss of the idea of Wiscon is probably not that huge.
But eventually I will have to discuss race and the rest, here, in my own terms. Not necessarily racefail -- I'm not a participant in any of the social circles where this has been playing out, so I may not have to engage that at all -- but because I have been reflecting on race, color, language, ethnicity, class and caste with both hands -- I have to: my job (my calling) demands it. I can't avoid it.
I no longer have much ambition to someday get to Wiscon, though. Not because of any particular event, but because it doesn't sound like the exciting intellectual place that it used to sound like. It frankly sounds dreary. And the people who are defending it the most sound the dreariest, though not the only dreary ones. Which is a loss for me, but I haven't even made it to BayCon since the nice fellow died, so the loss of the idea of Wiscon is probably not that huge.
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