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 lin…
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.
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.