I hate to say it, but this story is actually about Ethics In Journalism.

I don’t think this makes you “that person.” I think this is genuinely interesting and not something that would ever occur to me.

I hate to be “that person” but as a Biologist I think this normally rare event could become more common with monoculture tree plantings. Monoculture stands such as pine, Christmas trees, often for profit but sometimes touted as “eco-friendly” have almost no diversity and therefore no variety of roots to stabilize or…

Trump-supporters are pretttyy emboldened by the social and political structures that promote racism, misogyny, ableism, transphobia, and all other forms of oppression, and by public figures, elected officials, and discourse that either actively reinforce or fail to aggressively challenge such positions. We should be…

But it’s clear even in these emails that she doesn’t want to be convinced of anything. She has a side and she used Margaret Cho as an Asian sounding board.

Yeah, this is exactly the kind of conversation that would leave a bitter aftertaste. In Cho’s position I’d be like, “Goddamnit why didn’t I just tell that lady to fuck off? Why was I so subserviennnttt goddamnit I gave them exactly what they wanted and it was WRONG OF ME.”

Oh, thank you. I didn’t get your point until you changed the font size. You’re right.

I disagree. Cho has a right to look back on the conversation with a different opinion of it than she had when it first took place. Plus, she’s a comic! She’s going to say funny shit about people she has interactions with. It’s time to stop coddling stupid people and expose them for their ignorance about issues…

Sorry, I’m not sure why I’m so upset about the consistent practice of cultural appropriation and whitewashing in Hollywood. It’s no big deal.

This whole topic is easily researchable without reaching out to anyone and especially without asking the person you call to keep the conversation personal.

Hasn’t cho already explained it though? Why should she explain it again in a personal email if her critiques are so widely known/easily researchable? That’s the part that doesn’t make sense and doesn’t sit well with me.

(Because she wanted validity and to be assuaged of any guilt by what she considers to be a public representative of hip/progressive asian community and apparently the receipts to back it up in case her moral and PR image purity ever come in to question as well as a convenient way to not actually address the topic in…

Well, then, why approach her at all, really? Cho has said what she thinks very publicly. Why ask if you already know the answer?

Yeah, I don’t think she misrepresented the exchange at all. I think she added in her perspective of feeling weird about it and how it was a microaggression. But, her telling of events is the same, just told with a bit of anger and sarcasm attached.

Yeah, but it wasn’t just about input. And you know what? Swinton KNEW. Come on. If we look at it in the best possible light, as in “I’m in my dreary Scots castle and never see these things in public nor have I ever heard of whitewashing” a simple, “Well, shit, I fucked up and will do better next time” should do it.

I’m asian. Putting that out there to give my street cred.

She absolutely can complain! B/c she’s a vocal advocate for asian representation she then has to serve as personal informant for all other celebrities?? Fuck that! If Cho has been doing this for years then Swinton should read what Cho has already said! Or what any other advocate has written.

The write-up and comment section in the last article was straight up fucking gross, and it’s horrifying to see a community that claims feminism to so completely fail to critically examine their own assumptions. Every time someone said that Margaret looked bad, she’s a liar, she wants attention is just. . . what the…

It’s not that Swinton contacted her to discuss it that’s the problem, it’s that she seemed to be looking for absolution more than information. She seemed to be asking Cho to tell her that the backlash was unwarranted, and then talked about her personal orientation to the issue when Cho explained the historical context…

It’s not up to Margaret Cho to alleviate Tilda Swinton’s white guilt. It’s not her job. She is not Representative Asian #4. If Swinton had mixed feelings, she has the money to avoid the role and choose something else. Once she chose to move forward and do the role, then who is benefiting from those guilt feelings,…