Idea totally ripped off from Gary Dauphin’s Should I use blackface in my blog? flowchart. I find Visio a lot easier to work with, though it doesn’t allow any sort of easy image mapping in HTML that I can tell. More tinkering is clearly needed.

Meanwhile, I present for your enjoyment an examination of how fraught it is to compare one group’s sufferings or civil rights to another as a rhetorical ploy. Any well-intended feedback is appreciated.

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Feel free to give feedback.

This one’s about whether you should write an angry response to being called a racist.

Idea totally ripped off from Gary Dauphin’s Should I use blackface in my blog? flowchart. I hope it meets with his approval.

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Now, believe me, I know y’all are largely intelligent, curious, moral (or at the very least, expert, differently moral) people. I know that you are good at your chosen professions and passionate and ecstatic at your chosen hobbies. I know that you are capable people who really wish to and by and large do do good in the world.

But here’s my question (as a curious, skeptical, critically-thinking non-white person):

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