They problem is that this conversation:

(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…

I don’t give a shit about comic books or comic books movies. It just occurs to me that in this scenario Margaret Cho is always going to lose because she is an awkward loudmouth and Tilda Swinton is always going to win because she is an elegant, cool lady. The Team Swinton folks should acknowledge that, yes? She comes…

Where has anyone called Swinton a racist asshole? You’re so out of pocket here. The only intense outrage is coming from the people who are just flabbergasted that anyone would dare criticize a well-intentioned white person.

Margaret Cho has always been someone who lies for attention. She’s like if Marc Maron were a woman. It’s too bad because she is incredibly talented.

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…

Yeah, it was still not okay to seek out an Asian person you don’t know to have the white person guilt convo, and that is really how it looks to me. She joked about it afterward, but the feelings of having to hear/witness/be asked to be in that conversation must have been maddening.

I’m sure this minor dust-up won’t have people coming in here to drum their political opinion that Margaret Cho is “everything that’s wrong with the left” and that Swinton is ‘a weird human alien hybrid who floats through life casually ignoring her own privilege.’

Anytime I see someone say “being white had nothing to do with this situation,” my ears perk up because being white almost certainly had something to do with the situation. That’s one step removed from “I don’t see color.”

Based on racial power dynamics, you cannot blackwash (in the same way you cannot whiteface - white people benefit from their whiteness, while almost all other people do not benefit from their non-whiteness). Making more room for actors of color and not just white dudes is crucial. White people are, by far, over…

Hey, thanks for sharing your thoughts. Just wanted to offer a little wisdom that a friend of color offered me, re: your wanting to talk about race and feeling that your experiences are unappreciated/being told that your views are illegitimate and/or biased.

It doesn’t have to be demanding to be a burden. When someone’s politely asking questions, it can still feel like a burden if you feel like there is no way you can pull out of the conversation without being a) perceived as negative, b) letting down your people, or c) missing an opportunity to educate someone.

Hell, if…

What happens when you start a new job and you don’t know what to do? You figure it out. You do research. You ask people.

Same thing with fighting racism. You do some work yourself. Read articles. Speak out - use your voice to advocate for change. There are organizations out there for anti-racist white people - join…

White people can’t win in any discussion about race.

a rich white woman asked an asian woman she isn’t close to to explain how something is racist to her and how to solve the problem. if you don’t see the issue with that, I don’t know what to tell you. you have all the power of the internet to figure out why that is a really ignorant and shitty thing for someone to do,…

The way I see it, there are a lot of parallels between this situation and the situation of a guy pulling aside a woman at work and asking her “could you explain this ‘feminism’ thing to me? I want to do the right thing but I haven’t heard much about these ‘microaggressions’ and ‘intersectionality’ among my white male…