The good that came out of this, for me, was reading the incredibly well-worded and reasonable arguments of witchqueen and witchwillow.
The community response to the use of such a horribly laden term was callous, to say the least. They simply didn't care that the term was offensive, that they were representing the term as being something other than what it meant-- which was the equivalent of the term they were asked to substitute and refused to do, or that it crossed over to equating bestiality with interracial relationships and managed a new level of offensive.
And lost in all of this, even to me, was the notion that interracial relationships AS A KINK is racist in itself. They set up a very rigid policy of not rejecting the word choices they got out of their book, but once you've run into something that's racist instead of kinky, you should reconsider.
Because after all, who's going to tell on you? Sheesh.
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The community response to the use of such a horribly laden term was callous, to say the least. They simply didn't care that the term was offensive, that they were representing the term as being something other than what it meant-- which was the equivalent of the term they were asked to substitute and refused to do, or that it crossed over to equating bestiality with interracial relationships and managed a new level of offensive.
And lost in all of this, even to me, was the notion that interracial relationships AS A KINK is racist in itself. They set up a very rigid policy of not rejecting the word choices they got out of their book, but once you've run into something that's racist instead of kinky, you should reconsider.
Because after all, who's going to tell on you? Sheesh.