Okay.

[la_vie_noire]

Via delux_vivens. As always, when you said "women" in mainstream feminist circles, you mean, "white, cis women."

Otherwise, I don't get what Yonmei even tried to compare here.

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[bravecows]

And dude, Coates may have talked from his position.

The funny thing about this is that Coates has been blogging regularly about reading racist white writers and finding value in reading them. Just last week he was saying:

Literature classes around the country offer readings from former slaves--the narratives of Frederick Douglass, Olaudah Equiano, and Harriet Jacobs, for instance. I'm not exactly sure why we wouldn't also study the literature of slaveholders.

And emphasising that one of the reasons why he enjoyed reading the writing of a particularly racist pro-slavery dead white dude was because of its beauty.

(I kind of go back and forth on TNC's stance; I sort of agree with him but at the same time I don't want to give so much of my mental space to racist dead white dudes when I could be giving it to other kinds of people. But I think it's likely that I need more reeducation than TNC does at this point ...)

But anyway, in light of all that, TNC is like the last person of whom you could say "oh it would be different if it was racism!"

[la_vie_noire]

Well, I din't know all that, but obviously Yonmei also didn't. It's kinda ironic how her post was about showing one's ass.

(I kind of go back and forth on TNC's stance; I sort of agree with him but at the same time I don't want to give so much of my mental space to racist dead white dudes when I could be giving it to other kinds of people. But I think it's likely that I need more reeducation than TNC does at this point ...)

Yeah, I'm kinda the same, I prefer to spend time reading non racist white dudes if I can! But well, I don't see anything wrong with that as long as Coates gets something useful from it. XD

But anyway, in light of all that, TNC is like the last person of whom you could say "oh it would be different if it was racism!"

Irony!