DrMunks
DrMunks
I keep looking at what has been going on in Russia as kind of a sneak preview of what life in the United States is going to look like more and more every year.
Nevermind, totally misread your comment, please ignore!
Bro. Bro! BRO!
Which is one of the things I hate the most about how MLK gets covered in most schools. The guy was such a wonderful radical in so many ways, but the history textbooks have turned him into this kind of bland "he marched for freedom" middle-of-the-road reformist.
Oooh, symbolic interactionism! Now I want to hear more.
Ooooh the stories I could tell... It probably doesn't help that I specifically seek out bigoted websites to follow as my main focus. After a few hours of it in the wee hours of the morning I often have to go to a site like Cute Overload just to cleanse my brain. Though you're totally right, local news comment threads…
No worries. Just had to be sure :)
You pretty much described my thought process exactly.
Oh yes, they very much do! My dissertation was officially categorized as both an "online ethnography" and a "critical Internet discourse analysis." I was tracing and analyzing Islamophobic discourses in three blogs that I monitored closely for several years.
Fair enough, I appreciate what you're saying (and how you're saying it!). I didn't read too many of the comment threads beyond the ones I was involved in directly, I'll have to go check it out. Speaking as a fellow academic, I agree that balanced discourse is essential.
Ah, excellent point, I hadn't thought of that!
I appreciate your thoughtful response.
Writing from a perspective you don't agree with doesn't automatically make somebody a "bad writer." I've been grading student writing and editing professional writing for several years, and I find no fault with her style - I think it's a significant portion of her appeal (along with her tendency to back up what she's…
Er, I assume that was directed at the OP and not myself?
Okay, my apologies. I went too far and blew up a suspicion into a full-on accusation, and that was uncalled for. I stand by what I've had to say about the writing style used (snarky bits and all), but retract the race-related remarks, that wasn't fair for me to say.
One of the most common critiques leveled at people of color is their manner of speech. It doesn't even have to be a conscious thing on the part of the critic - I hear it come up a lot from people who consider themselves fairly anti-racist.
Instead, we get references every February or so that waaaaaay back in the 1960s and earlier, black people couldn't drink from the same fountains as white people, but then Martin Luther King, Jr. and now everything is just fine. Whew!
Um, no. Not because she's a woman.