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I’m sure it’s been said by now but how in the world did you not notice it until so late? I guess i just don’t understand how a self-proclaimed feminist writer could miss something SO racist and so obvious? I’d love to accept your apology and i’m really struggling to understand all this (the current situation you’ve found yourself in as well as numerous others) but it’s really difficult not only to accept your words but also to identity with the same feminism you do at this point.

I’m trying to understand why you’re so emotional about this. While I don’t think you need to treat everyone with rainbowed puppy gloves you’re being kind of a dick, and I don’t understand why.

You admit the images are racist but…that’s it. What about the fact that this is the second time this has happened? Amanda has apologized and removed racist art from this book once already - can you really not understand why it frustrates people to have to relive this? Can you really not understand how this latest incident suggests she and Seal Press weren’t really paying attention the last time?

Do you not see this point about a repeating ignorance as valid or are you just not interested in discussing it and its implications?

I completely fucking hate cultural studies. This fracas is a proof. They all should be sent to forced labor and reeducation camp

I had often wondered where the term femiNazi came from.

Now I know.

But I can’t get angry at you when you incidentally smack me when you slip on wax floor.

But if you smack me after you insult my mother, I probably blow your head open.

and since we are discussing art object (not something that physically hurt somebody, but causing emotional distress) then it is also different.

It is mental process. I don’t deny that racism imagery hurts people. But we know almost everything about that illustration. Who print it, approximately how many, Why they print it, who might see it, etc. The scope is known. action has been taken, apology posted.

I seriously doubt anybody can find those image 6 months from now, maybe nobody will even remember abut this flap. (hell, 2 weeks from now, everybody will drank their ass off and can’t remember jack.)

(I completely fucking hate cultural studies. This fracas is a proof. They all should be sent to forced labor and reeducation camp. Completely incapable of comprehending real world)

Hector B., I think an image must be considered racist if it underlines popular negative stereotypes of a group, whether anyone is offended or not. The idea of people-of-color-as-savages is damaging to people of color; therefore an image that reinforces that idea is damaging. Personal offense should be avoided, but I don’t think it’s the primary issue.