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tahariel...I don't really understand this: Con Or Bust: Fans of Color Assistance Project.
It's not that I don't understand what they're doing, it's more that I don't understand why specifically this is aimed at fans of colour. Because surely there is no rule that only white people can go? And fans of colour are not the only fans who don't have enough money to go to conventions? (I acknowledge that non-white populations in the US tend to be economically worse-off.)
If you know me at all, you will know that as far as is humanly possible, I try my hardest not to be prejudiced against anyone. I say as far as is humanly possible, because it is human nature to be prejudiced against something or someone, but wherever I find this in myself I try to stamp it out, because it is Not On. I am a white, middle-class woman raised in relatively comfortable circumstances, who grew up in an almost exclusively white middle-class area, and I know that sometimes this influences my thinking in ways I don't recognise. But I just don't understand why attendance at cons is a race issue, particularly.
I'm very happy for somebody to explain this to me, and very happy to listen. But I don't get it at the moment, and it has left me scratching my head.
It's not that I don't understand what they're doing, it's more that I don't understand why specifically this is aimed at fans of colour. Because surely there is no rule that only white people can go? And fans of colour are not the only fans who don't have enough money to go to conventions? (I acknowledge that non-white populations in the US tend to be economically worse-off.)
If you know me at all, you will know that as far as is humanly possible, I try my hardest not to be prejudiced against anyone. I say as far as is humanly possible, because it is human nature to be prejudiced against something or someone, but wherever I find this in myself I try to stamp it out, because it is Not On. I am a white, middle-class woman raised in relatively comfortable circumstances, who grew up in an almost exclusively white middle-class area, and I know that sometimes this influences my thinking in ways I don't recognise. But I just don't understand why attendance at cons is a race issue, particularly.
I'm very happy for somebody to explain this to me, and very happy to listen. But I don't get it at the moment, and it has left me scratching my head.
