Comments on: Racism and Copyright Games: The Fallacious Position of William Sanders http://www.edrants.com/racism-and-copyright-games-the-fallacious-position-of-william-sanders/ a blog in ever-shifting standing Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:27:32 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Josh http://www.edrants.com/racism-and-copyright-games-the-fallacious-position-of-william-sanders/comment-page-1/#comment-246579 Josh Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:59:20 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=8036#comment-246579 Steven, as someone once wrote on Crooked Timber, when people like this guy talk about Muslims, they're not thinking of Richard Thompson. Sanders's use of the word "sheet-heads" in particular conjures up an image of Arabs and <i>possibly</i> Central Asians. And his "I was pleased to see that you didn’t engage in the typical error of trying to make this evil bastard sympathetic, or give him human qualities" shows that he's a lousy judge of literature as well as a bigot: I can't imagine even Orson Scott Card praising a story for not giving its central characters "human qualities." Steven, as someone once wrote on Crooked Timber, when people like this guy talk about Muslims, they’re not thinking of Richard Thompson. Sanders’s use of the word “sheet-heads” in particular conjures up an image of Arabs and possibly Central Asians. And his “I was pleased to see that you didn’t engage in the typical error of trying to make this evil bastard sympathetic, or give him human qualities” shows that he’s a lousy judge of literature as well as a bigot: I can’t imagine even Orson Scott Card praising a story for not giving its central characters “human qualities.”

]]> By: Valerie http://www.edrants.com/racism-and-copyright-games-the-fallacious-position-of-william-sanders/comment-page-1/#comment-246550 Valerie Mon, 04 Aug 2008 02:10:44 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=8036#comment-246550 "the worm-brained mentality of those people”? Maybe he was just confusing it with another submission about hipsters. “the worm-brained mentality of those people”?

Maybe he was just confusing it with another submission about hipsters.

]]> By: Steven Augustine http://www.edrants.com/racism-and-copyright-games-the-fallacious-position-of-william-sanders/comment-page-1/#comment-246514 Steven Augustine Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:11:59 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=8036#comment-246514 "...take up the dispute in court to collect the dutiful damages that come from being associated with a racist editor." I think there's enough rhetorical demand to justify finding, or inventing, a *precise* word to describe a religion-specific display of prejudice; meanwhile, "racist" ain't it. We are seriously blunting the force of that adjective by over-using it incorrectly. "Muslim" is not a race and neither is the religion identified with a *particular* race... if it is, please name the race, man. “…take up the dispute in court to collect the dutiful damages that come from being associated with a racist editor.”

I think there’s enough rhetorical demand to justify finding, or inventing, a *precise* word to describe a religion-specific display of prejudice; meanwhile, “racist” ain’t it. We are seriously blunting the force of that adjective by over-using it incorrectly. “Muslim” is not a race and neither is the religion identified with a *particular* race… if it is, please name the race, man.

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