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I attended a talk at a gallery not long ago, and was amazed by my own impatience with audience members who got up on their soap box and went on and on and on, talking over the moderator and shutting down the panelists (and it was THEIR opinion I wanted to hear)…later I realized that that’s one of the reasons I like blogs—if you’re put off by someone’s opinion, you simply leave the site. You don’t have to endure endless rants or misinformed ideas or outright racist remarks that anonymous commenters leave behind. I’m not sure whether blogging actually improves our ability to communicate with one another, but I’m grateful that some bloggers work by a code of decency and civility. Please stop by 5 Minutes for Books where I was asked to contribute a guest post on race and representation. You can find another great post on whitewashing at Hello Ello 2 (thanks to Susan for this link). How do you explain to your child that their favorite cartoon show (that has an all-Asian cast) will now be a film with an all-white cast (Asians cast only as villains)? Boycotting this film might be one way to ring in the Year of the Tiger…we need fierce, sustained opposition to this kind of erasure.
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