tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post8420507148421096480..comments2024-03-28T14:53:38.827-04:00Comments on BLCKDGRD: Let Fate Have What Is Fate'sUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-42612732388862549562020-08-28T13:40:29.365-04:002020-08-28T13:40:29.365-04:00Have some pickled beets to celebrate!Have some pickled beets to celebrate!Hamster Hamletnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-78326044607232497952020-08-28T10:28:20.938-04:002020-08-28T10:28:20.938-04:00i see that poetry magazine regrets publishing a po...i see that poetry magazine regrets publishing a poem with "uncritical use of racist language" so much that not only have the president, chair of the board of directors, and editor resigned, but the poem has been banned from online publication and will not be added to the archive<br /><br />so yes, cancel culture really is a thing<br /><br />by looking around i found that the offensive word is - and i will substitute * for the vowel - the most common letter in written english - see wikipedia on <b>letter frequency </b> -<br /><br /><br /><i>n*gr*ss</i><br /><br />i am so old [the first couple years of the baby boom] that i remember when the non-feminized form of this word was polite<br /><br />and so the truth of the following observation from the obliterated poem is a matter of my lived experience<br /><br /><b>"oh they are always changing what they want to be called"</b><br /><br />the speaker is then depicted as behaving quite rudely to a woman of colour - she drops her purse on the bus, the woman of colour hands it back<br /><br /><b>she put out her hand to receive it the whole time looking out the window<br /> never said a word</b><br /><br />this action, by the person who previously used the word today's critics are complaining about, shows her as someone who is clearly racist - so i think it is a misinterpretation of the poem to say that the complained-about word is being used 'uncritically'<br /><br />i have quoted this fragment from Scholls Ferry Rd. by Michael Dickson from a tweet complaining about it's having been published<br /><br />https://twitter.com/HanaShapiro/status/1275943163690131456/photo/1<br /><br /><br />when i read this i see the poet's recounting of the imagined or remembered incident as depicting racism, not endorsing it<br /><br />as todd rundgren put it in his 1993 song <i>worldwide epiphany</i><br /><br /><b>We got the right to know, which means we got the right to misunderstand</b> <br /><br /><br /><br />mistah charley, sb, ma, phd, jspshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14786934467640941804noreply@blogger.com