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Here’s the biggest problem. People don’t like to be told they’re incorrect (I sure as hell don’t - I instantly start evaluating just how big the set of people it is I will have to notify of my wrongness, among other things).
This obviously gets in the way when having conversations about anything at all, and I think gets worse the more important that incorrect things it the person who holds the incorrect knowledge. Things like… I don’t know… racism?
Anyway, a John Scalzi post and followup comments from the past few days are relevant and, I think, interesting, and I’ll try to get what I can from them as I move through life.
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I won’t give specifics, but I want to say that H is my best friend and co-conspirator and am very happy to have her in my life.
The mere fact that when I am feeling most at sea and most doubt my own sanity, I can talk with her and be reassured that I am okay is worth, well, anything. But it’s definitely worth being able to provide the same sort of support for her when she needs it.
Beyond all her other wonderfulness, this is what I enjoy the most - simply getting each others’ backs, being able to care for each other, being able to provide the support for each other that allows us go go out into the world and do the work that’s important to ourselves and to each other.
I feel like I can never thank H enough for that.
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It seems to me that this kind of system could be used for other -isms aside from sizeism, but the folks over at Big Fat Blog have a new scoring system for blog entries and other Internet sources that support reader comments. The scoring system is based on both the tenor of the original article/post/entry as well as on how long it takes for an -ism comment to show up.
Obviously the scoring system presupposes that both the scorer and the scorer’s audience have the same sort of sense of what’s pro- and anti- to whatever cause you’re talking about, but I think it is helpful to overall civil rights movements that are based on rhetoric to have a shorthand for talking about the rhetoric of the opposing side(s) when talking about those sides.
Here’s the post, and also the comment that really gives specifics on the scoring system.
In other news, my WordPress blogging host is being really slow and laggy, and I can’t honestly tell if it’s the network set up at work, or that the host is effed up. It was working fine yesterday, though, unless my time sense was a lot more screwed up from having food poisoning than I thought.
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Okay, so maybe I should rename my blog to Angry Halfbreed Queer Chink or something.
When it comes down to it, after the anger or frustration subsides, what I’m left with is disappointment.
(I should note that I am trying to recover from a bout of food poisoning today, so if I sound/read a bit off, that would be why. Not wanting pity or excuses, just giving an explanation.)
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Now, believe me, I know y’all are largely intelligent, curious, moral (or at the very least, expert, differently moral) people. I know that you are good at your chosen professions and passionate and ecstatic at your chosen hobbies. I know that you are capable people who really wish to and by and large do do good in the world.
But here’s my question (as a curious, skeptical, critically-thinking non-white person):
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For the iBook or PowerBook (at least - try Crucial’s Memory Advisor™ tool and see if you come up with DDR PC2700 type memory and you may also be able to use it).
Details below the link/cut:
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Same-sex weddings start with union of elderly San Francisco couple (SFGate) - the slideshow is so worth it.
Questions and quotes for the Christian protestors follow… (it should be noted that I am a Christian also, but I do not agree that same-sex weddings are bad, nor do I agree that good people go to hell for following other religious/non-religious practices that are not necessarily Christian)
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The movers are still here, moving our stuff in, but the DSL and VOIP are up and running.
I’ve got the AC on full blast and the front door is wide open.
I have to make with a wireless connection to my attic (for the video game consoles) and also make good on my plan to make a public Wireless Access Point happen.
But the infrastructure is already there.
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This is a great read (from crayonbeam), which she didn’t comment much about, but which I see as a treasury of examples of privilege and entitlement, examined and unexamined, and it’s in the framework of gender, so it may be easier to take in than the scary jungles of race-related issues.
Har.
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Actually, it’s just time for our local intertubes to “go dark”.
I have been speaking portentiously all morning. I think it’s another stress symptom.
Anyhow, since the movers come tomorrow, I’m going to pack up all the associated Internet-connecting and Internet-connected devices today. The long-neglected “land line”, which is actually VOIP, so not really a “hard line” anymore anyway, will probably get enabled sometime tomorrow, or possibly later.
If you have our cell numbers, you can reach us there, and our intertubes in the new house should also get enabled sometime tomorrow.
My various gaming consoles may take a little longer to get attached. I’ll have to run cable or buy wireless equipment to get those bastards hooked up again.
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Let me get to the second part first.
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So my sweetie’s Powerbook G4 is having some performance and operation problems, and I just thought I’d take this opportunity to talk about what the symptoms appear to be and what what our action plan is to get it back into operation.
Updated to make certain decision-points a little clearer.
Updated 2 with alterations suggested by ckd, some wording corrections and some price estimates.
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Of course I’ll also update the metapost.
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As an archivist in this effort, I’m still taking the trouble. Otherwise, I think I would have quit by now. Anyhow, I’m posting new as well as updating the metapost.
Also, because I am linking to troller or almost-troller posts, let me remind the unwary reader/commenter about my policy on trolling on this journal (from the About page):
Generally I just ignore trollers, but on this journal it’s trivial to delete comments, and if you do troll me, it had better have some value. Be amusing or insightful or whatever. If you can’t be amusing or insightful and you troll me, your comment’s going in the trash. Consider this your fair warning.
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This post is for convenience of people still coming to the scene and wanting to know what happened, and because at the tail end of discussion, I just got a trackback from the Body Impolitic blog.
I’ll add more here if any more appears on my radar (as well probably in an additional post).
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I didn’t know this before, and it could conceivably help if you happen to be trying to track down a troller by incoming domain name or e-mail address and you find inaccurate WHOIS information.
There is a way of dealing with false WHOIS information. You can report it to the InterNIC and they will process it and try to rectify it.
You start with this form (the Whois Data Problem Report) and follow the directions there.
The form does require your real name and a functioning e-mail address, so it will leave a paper trail that could conceivably implicate you should someone track it back, but it’s a good tool to know about.
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I’m copying/pasting the entirety of my answer here because sometimes comments are deleted from Ask Metafilter if they’re deemed “off-topic” by the moderators.
Anyhow, the original question is here. Essentially this straight white guy read “Unpacking the Invisible Backpack” and is looking for more resources to self-educate, having had eyes open a bit.
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Interestingly, all of these links were on the first three pages of Google results from the phrase “rachel moss wiscon”
- A post on SeeLight goes into a discussion of fat politics and the author’s emotional reaction.
- Seeking Avalon comes down in support of Angry Black Woman.
- Almost Diamonds rounds up articles read by this post’s author.
- popelizbet on LiveJournal talks about our troller in context with Mallorie Gareis’ passing.
- David Anthony Durham talks a little bit about the incident, and talks about Angry Black Woman’s post.
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So now that most of us know who the troller from WisCon is, what do we do about her?
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Various developments in the saga (actual property of being interesting not guaranteed).
Extra bonus advice for our young, foolish troller included at end!
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