dipping a toe in the water: safe spaces

Writing The Other/Great Cultural Appropriation Debate of DOOM '09 - links put together by the amazingly talented and patient rydra_wong.

And a link of continuation from coffeeandink, in which she describes how two of the people who got defensive about the Rights Of Whites try to out her real name, obfuscate her arguments, and tell lies about her past.

My point of interest from her post:

sf fandom is so insular, so white-focused, and so white-dominated that some of the people involved can ignore the literally dozens of people involved in an argument about race, the literally hundreds of posts made, out of a conviction that race is not the issue when people of color say it is, or out of the conviction that there are no people of color who argue about sf fandom online because people of color generally do not attend sf conventions

Emphasis is mine.

What worries me is less that RaceFail09 is still going, and more that someone thought that personalised hassling and targeting was acceptable behaviour simply because the target disagreed with them.

( What worries me more: no safe sapce )