I admit I too was shocked by the strength of your response. The tone was disrespectful from the outset in a way I’ve not come to expect from you.
Though I understand why you were incensed. If you need to be reminded you are not crazy or alone, and you have not read Woke Racism yet, it’s totally validating. But if you chose to spend the w…
I admit I too was shocked by the strength of your response. The tone was disrespectful from the outset in a way I’ve not come to expect from you.
Though I understand why you were incensed. If you need to be reminded you are not crazy or alone, and you have not read Woke Racism yet, it’s totally validating. But if you chose to spend the week binge-watching Battlestar Galactica instead (ok, maybe that’s my escape fantasy?), no one would judge. This topic must be exhausting.
Yeah, this conversation is over half a year old, so I'm much better at managing frustration today (Woke Racism is on my reading list though 😁), but my second reply really sums up why I reacted the way I did.
Having somebody talk down to me about racism, in their opening comment, because of an incredibly bad-faith reading of a single line in an article devoted to saying that we should be working to *fix* racism in *all* its forms, killed all hope that a productive conversation was a possibility.
Maybe it doesn't come across this way to you, but Cory's comment was far more disrespectful than my reply in my opinion. If I was unsure about how a female writer had phrased a sentence or a gay writer had phrased a sentence, I wouldn't dream of implying they wanted to ignore misogyny or homophobia and I *certainly* wouldn't condescend to them about what would or wouldn't make these problems disappear.
I consider it part of my job to contribute to polite and meaningful discourse. But I don't consider it my sole responsibility. The person I'm talking to has to at least attempt to do their part. As Cory himself says, there are a million better ways he could have expressed that thought. None of which would have elicited my response or even annoyed me. I think of the millions on offer, he literally chose the worst one.
I admit I too was shocked by the strength of your response. The tone was disrespectful from the outset in a way I’ve not come to expect from you.
Though I understand why you were incensed. If you need to be reminded you are not crazy or alone, and you have not read Woke Racism yet, it’s totally validating. But if you chose to spend the week binge-watching Battlestar Galactica instead (ok, maybe that’s my escape fantasy?), no one would judge. This topic must be exhausting.
Yeah, this conversation is over half a year old, so I'm much better at managing frustration today (Woke Racism is on my reading list though 😁), but my second reply really sums up why I reacted the way I did.
Having somebody talk down to me about racism, in their opening comment, because of an incredibly bad-faith reading of a single line in an article devoted to saying that we should be working to *fix* racism in *all* its forms, killed all hope that a productive conversation was a possibility.
Maybe it doesn't come across this way to you, but Cory's comment was far more disrespectful than my reply in my opinion. If I was unsure about how a female writer had phrased a sentence or a gay writer had phrased a sentence, I wouldn't dream of implying they wanted to ignore misogyny or homophobia and I *certainly* wouldn't condescend to them about what would or wouldn't make these problems disappear.
I consider it part of my job to contribute to polite and meaningful discourse. But I don't consider it my sole responsibility. The person I'm talking to has to at least attempt to do their part. As Cory himself says, there are a million better ways he could have expressed that thought. None of which would have elicited my response or even annoyed me. I think of the millions on offer, he literally chose the worst one.