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[yagathai]

What an interesting discussion on race in fandom we're having over in rosefox's LJ. Won't you join in, everyone?

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[thelastmehina.livejournal.com]

The thing with "ghettoization" is that it happens in the ghetto.

They weren't stuck in the basement that you can only get to by risking rickety stairs at 10 p.m. I'm sure they were treated with all due respect that an author at a literature-oriented con deserves.

I think people who read malice into random events do more damage than help in the long run. Sure, there are lots of insidious examples of racism in literature (the horrible trilogy I read not long ago by Russell Kirkpatrick comes immediately to mind) and in the wider culture. I think it's better to focus on those instances than nitpick about two black authors doing a signing together.

[stegoking.livejournal.com]

I was pretty offended to be sat at a table with a white person once. WTF? Racist fuckers.

Oh wait, that was my wife.


Why would it even come up? I don't get it. I'm fucking ignorant.

And Chip Delaney won a Nebula from his PEERS before blacks and whites could legally drink from the same water fountain in the South. I think of all people he should be saying the SF fandom, while awkward, socially retarded, and always borderline autistic, tend to not judge folks on things like race.

But that's just me.