Out Of The Loop! Like Whoa!

[eumelia]

It would appear, that I totally missed a huge, massive, enormous racism and cultural appropriation debate on LJ.

For specific and pertinent posts go to rydra_wong's link round up.

There were some links there that I'd previously read, but hadn't connected them to each other as stemming from the same debate.
In my innocence and ignorance I thought it was just a few identity oriented posts.
And suddenly I am bombarded (well bombarded myself) with links to posts, some of which were truly informative and others which made me go "Dude! WTF! STFU!".

I don't really have much to add to this debate since it seems to have quieted down.
But hell, there was an emergence of ugly, racist and ignorant statements from people so full of shit I found it difficult to stomach.

All I can say, as my people do, "Oy, what a mess".

And what a fucked up interwebs world.

I suppose it's too much to ask of people to be aware of who we are, the reality in which we live and that people are human beings.
And when they are written as characters, they represent people.
And one shouldn't use them as tropes and stereotypes.
Redundant?
Maybe.
But still worth mentioning.