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N. K. Jemisin Profile picture
@nkjemisin
Oct 31, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
So, this is fascinating. A racist journalist who in 1995 ruined her career w/plagiarism & inaccuracies has resurfaced... writing an inaccurate story about social-climbing rich parents that still takes the time to complain about Black families' focus on sports.
On the 1995 mess:
Really brings home what's wrong with 2020 American journalism when you realize Black journalists *still* have to fight just to be heard but people like Ruth Shalit Barrett are given platform after platform from which to spew their bias. ::coughGreenwaldhack::
Suppose I should clarify first tweet: "a journalist who sure seems racist to me." In case she or any of her supporters decide to try and whitewash her background again.
(Oh, for folks who think I'm vaguetweeting, no, just pre-coffee reaction to my TL, which is all talking about this 800-word correction: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…)

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Mar 1, 2022
I wonder if white Americans realize their voting rights are in danger, too? I'm sure some imagine a white nationalist utopia, but the GOP isn't much interested in regular white folks except as shock troops. Troops just follow orders. Nobody in power cares what they want.
Well, anyway. Guess they'll figure it out eventually.
Just a thought I had while noticing all the Repubs silent on (or praising) Putin -- y'know, the guy who rewrote Russia's constitution to taste. Where the population votes for him because the opposition gets arrested, or poisoned. Where few checks exist to stop an egotist's war.
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Jan 9, 2022
Just got invited to a SFF con as a guest. I naturally inquire about their covid policy. What they send me is less than what Discon 3 (30+ cases) required. I say no. Politely, but I'm thinking "Are y'all high?"
I honestly have to question how any con can plan in-person right now, or anytime in the future, but ok. You want in-person. If you're not doing EVERYTHING POSSIBLE to minimize transmission, why are you doing anything?
Masks alone? Theater. Vaccs alone? Theater. Requiring only one shot, no booster? No on site testing? Theater. Specifically, theater that puts people's lives at risk, makes it impossible for the immunocompromised to attend, and pretty much guarantees an outbreak.
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Dec 3, 2021
Finally got my booster today. Let me tell you that I love living in my Black neighborhood... til it's time to access public services like healthcare. (And the post office but that's a diff rant.) It's just a constant saga of multiple trips, weird hours, and unnecessary hurdles.
Went to 3 walk-in sites here: no dice. Only 10a - 3p at one, another wasn't open when it should've been, no qualified staff at third. I needed a test a few months back so I visited 2 testing vans. One's staff went on "lunch" for 3 hours. The other had a line down the block.
And I am an able-bodied relatively privileged person. How's somebody with a 9 to 5 supposed to wait hours, or get to a shot site between 10 and 3? How, if there's nobody there to give you the shot even when you make an appointment?
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Jun 19, 2021
::equally deep sigh::

@tinytempest nails it. This is Highlander Syndrome ("there can be only a few!"). White supremacy loves to anoint only a handful of marginalized people as Proof Things Have Changed. You know what really proves that? A bunch of new/lesser-known names.
That means the ecosystem feeding such anthologies has reached the minimum level of health needed to support new growth. Might not be healthy beyond that; see the lack of Black folks in executive roles, frex. But the pipeline intake is working, at least.
The framing of this criticism effectively celebrates the fact that only a few names make it all the way through the pipeline -- thus reinforcing its choke points. Also? What do you think it does to "big names" to expect them to participate in every project?
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Jun 12, 2021
The year I graduated from my Alabama high school, something similar happened; the val was a Black girl who spent freshman year at a (harder) private school. White parents complained til her gpa was unweighted, and a white girl with lower grades got co-val. There's a pattern here.
These frequent, predictable, and very much racial conflicts were the inspiration for my short story "Valedictorian."
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Jun 7, 2021
::sigh:: Have now seen multiple articles about the Broken Earth film deal that framed it as "the pretender to Game of Thrones" or some kind of contest. Can we not? It's not a zero-sum game. People can enjoy more than 1 film, read more than 1 book, etc. Fantasy for everybody!
Like, I get that that's just how media works, now. Can't just say "a thing has happened," it's gotta be a more clickbaitey "a THING! will soon DESTROY! another thing!!1!" But just... FFS. This is so tiring.
We're in the midst of an explosion of fantastical TV/film, and the world is starting to figure out that fantasy doesn't always have to equal medieval European guys with swords. That gets harder when everything gets rhetorically pitted against the last Guys With Swords.
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