I, too, think that the demand for people to post was specifically aimed at SF/F industry people who had chosen to remain silent on the behavior of their peers.
I have a problem with you saying that "we're all queer and Jewish"--for one, I'm neither, and in fact I've seen enough discussion about how Jewish people and queer people are sometimes treated in fandom that I don't think that even that group is in a "safe space"--this isn't ever really going to be a safe space, by virtue of the fact that it's a public space, and we all come in with our baggage from our racist, sexist, homophobic, religiously biased societies. Ultimately, I think one of the things this entire affair has hammered home is that it can really hurt people for us to act as if "everyone in fandom is just like me."
Also, so much good discussion and positive action has come out of Racefail 09 that it's really unfortunate it has that moniker. It may have been written off as "vitriolic on both sides", but really, it's not like that at all.
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I have a problem with you saying that "we're all queer and Jewish"--for one, I'm neither, and in fact I've seen enough discussion about how Jewish people and queer people are sometimes treated in fandom that I don't think that even that group is in a "safe space"--this isn't ever really going to be a safe space, by virtue of the fact that it's a public space, and we all come in with our baggage from our racist, sexist, homophobic, religiously biased societies. Ultimately, I think one of the things this entire affair has hammered home is that it can really hurt people for us to act as if "everyone in fandom is just like me."
Also, so much good discussion and positive action has come out of Racefail 09 that it's really unfortunate it has that moniker. It may have been written off as "vitriolic on both sides", but really, it's not like that at all.