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adelynne

The more I try to get out...

Jan 28, 2009 18:26

I was going to write a post about the awesomeness that is Elizabeth Wein's (aka, eegatland) series that starts with The Winter Prince, and how right sdn was when she told me to go read it. I even wrote the title in my little Semagic box. But then I had to go home, and I was tired, I was busy, and then OMG Cultural Appropriation! exploded on the internets ( Read more... )

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bayushi January 29 2009, 00:11:18 UTC

I'm reading this post because you're on ohimesamama's friendslist and I read that, and I'd like to thank you for this post, you just put your finger on a lot of what was bothering me about that conversation. (I'm third generation Russian Jew, my great-grandparents came over from Odessa.)

adelynne January 29 2009, 04:15:09 UTC

I'm glad to help. And, honestly, glad to know I'm not the only one.

mrsix January 29 2009, 02:47:43 UTC

I tried looking through the LJ you linked to but couldn't find the source of controversy because all the linkspam seem to be people shouting at each other. Where did this internet train wreck start?

adelynne January 29 2009, 04:21:51 UTC

It started here: http://matociquala.livejournal.com/1544111.html
and was commented on here: http://seeking-avalon.blogspot.com/2009/01/open-letter-to-elizabeth-bear.html
and exploded from there. Particularly important to the explosion (I feel) were: http://deepad.livejournal.com/29656.html (which is very thinky) and http://matociquala.livejournal.com/1544999.html

The journal I linked goes back to the very beginning and chronicles the links that follow. I honestly haven't read them all - it really did make me so sad to keep reading.

soundingsea January 29 2009, 03:04:10 UTC

Thank you for sharing your story. *hugs*

adelynne January 29 2009, 04:18:38 UTC

*hugs back* I'm glad to do it. I have an absurd amount of pride over it, actually. Both in terms of what my family survived and went through and in terms of how far we've grown since.

It may get me flamed, but I really never feel like the fault and misunderstanding is all on one side. I know a lot of my parents' prejudice may have been warranted, but I've always struggled against it because circumstances change and you have to allow for that, because otherwise you risk losing out on so much.

Such a sweet post. zayichik January 29 2009, 04:41:20 UTC

I miss you ( ... )

Re: Such a sweet post. adelynne January 29 2009, 18:53:36 UTC

There were, certainly, some PhDs who were Jewish by birth. Same with doctors. The thing it came down to was basically how atheist you were, how well you could disguise your name, and how close to a major city you happened to be studying.

I linked mrsix to some of the stuff that set off the firestorm above. Those posts will probably make for a better explanation than I can attempt.