I think we exactly agree - I admit I will say stupid things and reveal clueless white privilege and I just try to learn from it. But this particular issue, yes, it looks so very, very NorAm to me. I feel a lot of the issues PoC are raising about the White culture of SFF are the same or very similar as the issues I have with SFF being so North American.
I'll note - I don't think it's as damaging or excluding to be a white person who sees most SFF to be about white people with a slightly different culture, as to be a PoC.
But when the PoC talk about how the (white) SFF community is Shocked! to discover their wonderful homey little community excludes/doesn't consider PoC, I nod and think "or people who live outside the US or don't speak English". And when PoC talk about the frustration at watching the one hundredth or one thousandth Special White Snowflake do exactly the same hurtful things all the previous Special White Snowflakes have done, I am reminded of what it's like, having to explain on the one newsgroup, for the 50th time, that the seasons are NOT the same down here, honest.
Again, much less hurt, but I have a pretty good idea of the general gist of what it must be like, I just imagine the extra hurt :-).
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Date: 2009-02-04 04:23 am (UTC)I'll note - I don't think it's as damaging or excluding to be a white person who sees most SFF to be about white people with a slightly different culture, as to be a PoC.
But when the PoC talk about how the (white) SFF community is Shocked! to discover their wonderful homey little community excludes/doesn't consider PoC, I nod and think "or people who live outside the US or don't speak English". And when PoC talk about the frustration at watching the one hundredth or one thousandth Special White Snowflake do exactly the same hurtful things all the previous Special White Snowflakes have done, I am reminded of what it's like, having to explain on the one newsgroup, for the 50th time, that the seasons are NOT the same down here, honest.
Again, much less hurt, but I have a pretty good idea of the general gist of what it must be like, I just imagine the extra hurt :-).