I think I might need to hug you now. Because this is what I've been trying to formulate, impeded by the haze of red that comes over my eyes whenever I think about the particular instance that applied to me not long ago. Derailment, eh? Assuming that someone's home-space post is part of your discussion, your perspective, and refusing to engage with what they're actually saying. Reasonable description? Yeah.
I think the comment I actually boggled over the most was the one about how I should have been more careful phrasing myself when writing a post for metafandom. I just kind of sat there and stared for a while, because my god, when did metafandom or any other link collection project become an audience? Or should that be, a publisher? Cause normally, you know, you have to submit something to a publisher (or any other audience) before you can be said to have written it for them.
Of course, the day I saw someone saying that using the word "derailment" when discussing privileged responses to queer issues was, essentially, derailing the discussion or racism, that was the day that I stopped reading any of those discussions because it was clearly getting taken over by the crazy people.
The fascism, and I use the term advisedly and with linguistic precision, of this attempt to merge the whole internet into one discussion, and control which one that is, is just stunning.
I'm tempted, rather than telling the link journals to bugger off in my public posts, to start with some kind of boilerplate to the effect that "this is not your discussion unless I specifically say otherwise, act like it is and you'll get shut down". Because damned if I'll lock everything, but I'm not putting up with that kind of nonsense again.
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Date: 12 Feb 2010 06:10 pm (UTC)I think the comment I actually boggled over the most was the one about how I should have been more careful phrasing myself when writing a post for metafandom. I just kind of sat there and stared for a while, because my god, when did metafandom or any other link collection project become an audience? Or should that be, a publisher? Cause normally, you know, you have to submit something to a publisher (or any other audience) before you can be said to have written it for them.
Of course, the day I saw someone saying that using the word "derailment" when discussing privileged responses to queer issues was, essentially, derailing the discussion or racism, that was the day that I stopped reading any of those discussions because it was clearly getting taken over by the crazy people.
The fascism, and I use the term advisedly and with linguistic precision, of this attempt to merge the whole internet into one discussion, and control which one that is, is just stunning.
I'm tempted, rather than telling the link journals to bugger off in my public posts, to start with some kind of boilerplate to the effect that "this is not your discussion unless I specifically say otherwise, act like it is and you'll get shut down". Because damned if I'll lock everything, but I'm not putting up with that kind of nonsense again.