Merlin drama timeline

[nina_vendredi]

Drama timeline
Early suspicions of xenophobia
The actual racefail
The A/N responding to being called out
The meme gets involved
The wank report is posted
FFR has a white knight explosion, the comm asks do you not know where you are?!
bgaleb has opinions
twice
sf_drama picks up the story with bonus actual kink shaming
unfunny fandom gets in on the ffr post
The meme finds out about ffr and sfd
The author apparently doesn't think the kink meme's mods request to take it to the discussion post applies to them
The meme finds out about the latest A/N
The kink meme mods finally make a ruling

And the best summary ever:

"nayrt all this endless debate really sounds like to me is:

Anon on KMM: Excuse me, you just stepped on my toe.
Other Anon: Dude, it was an accident, stop freaking out about it!
Anon on M_M: They're not freaking out, they just want the author to get off Original Anon's foot.
Author: I didn't mean to step on it, ok? Can we just carry on?
Anon Somewhere: Ok, can you please get off the toe now?
Other Anon: How dare you get offended about Author stepping on your toe? People step on toes all the time! People get run over by buses! People sometimes kick things and injure their own toes!
Author: Sorry your foot was there, dude. I didn't mean to step on it.
Anon Somewhere: JUST GET THE FUCK OFF THE BLOODY TOE YOU DIPSHIT.
Other Anon: INTENTIONS COUNT YOU OVERREACTING NUTS. WHAT ABOUT THE BUSES AND THE PEOPLE WHO GET KICKED BY HORSES. STOP INSISTING THE AUTHOR APOLOGISE ABOUT YOUR TOE."

Comments

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

HEY, IT'S STORY TIME.

Way back before the Internet, O Best Beloved, there was a comic called The Tick. It was written by Ben Edlund. It had a three-part ninja storyline basically lampshading that every comic line in existence was doing something, and usually something stupid, with ninja at that point. The whole joke was that one branch of the ninja clan was selling out ninjitsu for profit and basically trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator.

So in one of these comics was a little insert, a fake brochure for the Ninja World theme park that was the main source of revenue. The brochure featured the theme park mascot, Lil' Nip.

I suspect you see where this is going.

People were offended, and there was rather a large debate that pretty much went like this: "This is gross and racist" vs. "This is using the worst, cheapest stereotypes of ninjitsu and Japanese culture because that is the point of the joke - that in selling Ninja World the manager decided to use these cheap gross stereotypes to appeal to, well, idiots."

The interesting thing is that, at least in my recollection, no one debated that the character was racist, or that depicting a Japanese accent by switching the "L" and "R" in every word wasn't, you know, racist.

So. You know. It's 24 years later. Just putting that out there.

[nina-vendredi.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't know what happened, but in the last 10 years or so, there's been this shift that's some sort of misapplied postmodernism. We've taken the idea of listening to unheard voices and turned it into letting every dumbass fucker's opinion have equal weight.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

Aaaand I just saw John Derbyshire, continuing from his stellar article about the folly of women voting, chose to share about how he trains his children to be afraid of black people.

[nina-vendredi.livejournal.com]

I read that article without context of who he was or where he published and my thought process was pretty much: Well this is heavy handed satir...OH MY GOD HE'S SERIOUS.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

Yeeeeeeah.

[nina-vendredi.livejournal.com]

I really do enjoy ontd_political as a news aggregator, but I really wish everyone put their sources at the top of their entries instead of the bottom. It would be so much better for my sanity.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

That sounds much more convenient, yes.

Oh god I missed my icons so much.

[nina-vendredi.livejournal.com]

Somedays it's hysterical, because 90% of the people who read any given article will only read the headline/first paragraph, or completely ignore the source. The amount of people that lose their minds over Onion articles always makes my day.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

Every once in a while the Abortionplex comes up again somewhere and I laugh and laugh. And then cry a little.

[nina-vendredi.livejournal.com]

There's a reason I don't ever look at my Facebook.