‘I never thought leopards would eat MY face,’ sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party.
Quick recap: Mercedes Lackey, who like Rowling before her used to be a very popular and very progressive author but not quite as famous, is getting canceled for accidentally describing a person of color as “colored”. She is very sad and sorry about this. The colored person in question said he’s not offended and it’s ridiculous that so many people are getting offended on his behalf. The SFWA nonetheless hyped up the situation like this:
The use of a racial slur violates the instruction to “Respect all cultures and communities. Do not make derogatory or offensive statements even as a joke.” That applies to everyone in a SFWA space, at all levels of their career.
What a mendacious misrepresentation. Her husband Dixon (who names this shit?) also reports being cancelled by association.
“His predecessors—mathematician Karl Pearson, anthropologist Francis Galton, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel and others—also published works and spoke of theories fraught with racist ideas about distributions of health and illness in populations without any attention to the context in which these distributions occur.”
Dude, I had no idea Gregor Mendel, 19th century Augustinian monk and pioneer of pea heredity, was also an evil wacis.
if there’s white empiricism, is there brown empiricism? what the hell is going on here in academia???
