This is apropos of a discussion I was having with a friend and colleague about taking criticism graciously.
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I had occasion yesterday to confront a group of colleagues about bias in word and idiom choice (i.e. “Chinese fire drill”) in conversation at a meeting and had mixed results with the different individuals involved. Largely the response to a letter I wrote yesterday was both in public and in private positive. I did have [...] Been doing my bit for king and country today, heroically (I think) staying out of a potential flamewar about racism on MetaFilter (technically, MetaTalk) all day. [...] I wanted to note here a couple of things about my own relationship to writing about race-oriented power disparities as well as share a portion of a comment I made in a locked LiveJournal community about race and racism. [...] There is a meme going around toward the idea that we should not be silent about our feelings and reactions to Racefail 2009 and our lessons learned. How do I put this? I am no stranger to the idea that speaking out and getting as many opinions as possible is a good thing. When done [...] Apparently we’re having that discussion again (this link is from 2007, probably around June). Cultural appropriation discussions are very fraught. Start here. Author’s response here, both with many other links available. (I should note that I am one of the author’s friends, but that I know she is strong enough to pick her own battles [...] In which I shall attempt to explain how I think entitlement/privilege is related to docentry/tokenism, reverse racism and how I think you can use your entitlement/privilege for good. Updated: To try to clarify a bit. [...] |
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