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Still owe people responses on the posture entry (ANSWERS ONLY LEAD TO MORE QUESTIONS!!) but um, so, I've gotten into a bit of a thing. I won't link to it because at the moment I'd rather continue to be fairly anonymous, but it's linked to here. Obviously I'm the one posting as Laura. The real meat is in the comments - a lot of what I'm responding to is not his entry itself but stuff like this. All of which is in response to this and this - a big discussion of why "color blindness" is neither helpful nor harmless. The person I'm responding to says that people of color make too big a deal over their race, and I guess he thinks they refuse to live in a post-racial world. Then he doesn't understand why everyone is angry at him (because he's married to a woman of color). (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wannaberaptor, the fact that I reference our conversation a bit does not mean I'm in any way associating you with that guy!)
For friends only, a bit more private analysis and brainstorming.
Anyway, so what's also happened is that one of the people who's been getting angry and frustrated with this guy saw my comments and thought they were great, and I'm really happy and excited! I was afraid I was just saying dumb stuff and making a huge fool of myself because I'm so new to discussing this stuff. I know that not everything I'm saying about anti-racism is accurate, and I have doubts about my use of the term "anti-racism movement" and I don't know enough about everything to necessarily be as effective as I could be. But I do like debating, I like honest arguments, I like trying to get at the logic behind the situation. Often at work I find myself "translating" for two people who don't understand each other and I kind of feel like that's what I'm doing here. I'm not sure how far I'll get but maybe I can make my opponent more aware of certain issues, more aware of how he sounds to others and how far off he is from the bulk of the discussion on these topics. And at least I feel more confident in my own positions for having debated them like this. If you can't be honest in an argument about your beliefs, you need to rethink them, or at least figure out where the holes are.
So yeah, I feel really cool that people liked my arguments. I'm all pumped and glowy. Of course i sent her a message saying hey, because I'm completely incapable of maintaining any type of mystique.
I pretty much wish this hadn't all gone down when work was already so busy, though. I mean, it gives me a distraction and something else to think about, but I spent a lot of time writing those responses yesterday. XD People kept coming up to ask me a question and I'd have his entry open on one monitor (I have two monitors) and my response draft in word on the other - because indeed, I wrote it all out and then re-arranged it and added new stuff and edited it extensively. I should have done so much on essays in school!
I can't remember if there was anything else i was going to say on this subject, but. . . I've probably said enough? It's been interesting!
I believe I shall try to get back to sleep now. Man, it's hard to get my shower to give hot water at 6:30 in the morning, it was all "GO BACK TO BED FOR CHRISSAKE WHAT DO YOU WANT."
wannaberaptor, the fact that I reference our conversation a bit does not mean I'm in any way associating you with that guy!)For friends only, a bit more private analysis and brainstorming.
Anyway, so what's also happened is that one of the people who's been getting angry and frustrated with this guy saw my comments and thought they were great, and I'm really happy and excited! I was afraid I was just saying dumb stuff and making a huge fool of myself because I'm so new to discussing this stuff. I know that not everything I'm saying about anti-racism is accurate, and I have doubts about my use of the term "anti-racism movement" and I don't know enough about everything to necessarily be as effective as I could be. But I do like debating, I like honest arguments, I like trying to get at the logic behind the situation. Often at work I find myself "translating" for two people who don't understand each other and I kind of feel like that's what I'm doing here. I'm not sure how far I'll get but maybe I can make my opponent more aware of certain issues, more aware of how he sounds to others and how far off he is from the bulk of the discussion on these topics. And at least I feel more confident in my own positions for having debated them like this. If you can't be honest in an argument about your beliefs, you need to rethink them, or at least figure out where the holes are.
So yeah, I feel really cool that people liked my arguments. I'm all pumped and glowy. Of course i sent her a message saying hey, because I'm completely incapable of maintaining any type of mystique.
I pretty much wish this hadn't all gone down when work was already so busy, though. I mean, it gives me a distraction and something else to think about, but I spent a lot of time writing those responses yesterday. XD People kept coming up to ask me a question and I'd have his entry open on one monitor (I have two monitors) and my response draft in word on the other - because indeed, I wrote it all out and then re-arranged it and added new stuff and edited it extensively. I should have done so much on essays in school!
I can't remember if there was anything else i was going to say on this subject, but. . . I've probably said enough? It's been interesting!
I believe I shall try to get back to sleep now. Man, it's hard to get my shower to give hot water at 6:30 in the morning, it was all "GO BACK TO BED FOR CHRISSAKE WHAT DO YOU WANT."
