rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

gotta admit my first impulse is to subscribe

i still dont understand why anyone cares about this? is this like the book world V-Nasty?

Nobody idiot says something racist, internet explodes

except at the moment isn't it more like, respected science fiction magazine plans to publish racist idiot, science fiction world explodes?

uh yeah

they didnt though

he wrote a huge missive about why they werent gonna publish an except from some self released book

yeah but that was after everyone already exploded

Marvin was approached by Victoria Foyt, and was asked to review her novel.

like i should write angry letters about every unsolicited demo i get?

All of this would be just another internet firestorm about somebody being an idiot — except that Weird Tales Magazine, one of the most venerable speculative fiction magazines in the world, decided to reprint the first chapter of Saving the Pearls in its next issue. And Weird Tales editor Marvin Kaye, who took over the magazine from the Hugo Award-winning team of Ann VanderMeer and Stephen Segal last year, wrote a blog post defending the book:

oh i see

haha yeah those blue things are links to other websites sometimes w/ more information

i read this thing like four times

http://weirdtalesmagazine.com/2012/08/20/a-message-from-the-publisher/

and didnt get the backstory

oh the io9 post detailing the original controversy is in phil d's post upthread

I hope you are in a receptive mood. Thanks very much for placing within me the bomb that never stops exploding. Though the benefits have been intangible and in fact I feel that this terrifying mechanism has generally made my life intolerable, I shall never ask you to reverse the situation.

Nobody idiot says something racist, internet explodes

― Fareed Zaireeka (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, August 21, 2012 12:25 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Eh I think she's actually been published at least as many times as you have and is married to one (1) more famous film director than you are, so "nobody" is being a bit thick here as well.

the use of "goddamned" in that editor's note cracks me up for some reason

me too actually, very cranky

has Marvin Kaye's followup statement appeared yet

My white math teacher says "fo sho" a lot.

He really likes Dave Chapelle

He has an enormous shoulder chip

http://www.xojane.com/it-happened-to-me/asian-woman-dating-asian-men-jenny-an

Former co-worker tags all of his instagrams taken of his fiancee with #amazingasian. Creeps me out a little, but to each their own.

That article has no point.

really just wanna lol at the author

xojane is no elite daily anyway

wtf with that article

*at (not with)

think that the point of the article is that the author is confused, conflicted and self-loathing, but doesn't really care. not much of a point, i grant you...

yeah, is it trying to normalize asian-american self-loathing? ugh

lol @ the author

on one hand it reads like the ravings of a depressed person, a cry for help. on the other hand she's trying to spin her racism as 'merely feminism', ugh ugh

great red panda punchline
http://www.xojane.com/files/JennyAn3.jpg

her back-pedaling is also lol

http://twitter.com/jenny_an

'junot diaz-inspired performance art'

that was the most annoying part of her dumb "piece," when she namechecked junot diaz. i was like, i'm preeeeeetty sure this is not what junot diaz was talking about when he said we have to acknowledge the white spremacist within us.

anyway she's an idiot; asian american dudes doged a bullet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbULBAjstBA

gross

Pretty sure ted is a racist.

or bob even.

http://laist.com/2012/09/12/middle_schooler_booted_from_class.php

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/558245_514703765213483_1661924772_n.jpg

also for his bad haircut

he's missing the frosted tips

http://nativeappropriations.blogspot.com/2012/09/paul-frank-offends-every-native-person.html

Read the follow-up!

that is fantastic

that's amazing.

White Republican President Joe Christmas.

the follow-up I meant: http://nativeappropriations.blogspot.com/2012/09/paul-frank-offends-every-native-person.html

president of paul frank industries personally reaches out, apologizes, promises to purge design catalog of anything vaguely looking like this

still, how the living hell did that shit get greenlit to begin with