a lack of intent is not a magical get out of jail free card, you know?
Yeah. And the other thing is? "I didn't intend to be hurtful, so I'm sorry if I hurt you" is not a free pass to KEEP DOING the hurtful thing. "Oh, I didn't realize that this word was a racial slur...! Yeah, I'm gonna keep saying it, though." No. It doesn't work like that.
The story is *still up*. I mean I totally understand being resistant to taking this story down, especially since she apparently made it this far without hearing any criticism, but come on. If you really, actually understand why it's so gross to take a real life tragedy that happened so incredibly recently and play with it like a toy, if you really understood that you had written a story where all the supporting characters were a collection of racist cliches, how could you possibly leave that story up, open to positive feedback? If I had done something like that, and *really* understood what I had done and was sorry for it, that story would be taken down SO FAST.
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a lack of intent is not a magical get out of jail free card, you know?
Yeah. And the other thing is? "I didn't intend to be hurtful, so I'm sorry if I hurt you" is not a free pass to KEEP DOING the hurtful thing. "Oh, I didn't realize that this word was a racial slur...! Yeah, I'm gonna keep saying it, though." No. It doesn't work like that.
The story is *still up*. I mean I totally understand being resistant to taking this story down, especially since she apparently made it this far without hearing any criticism, but come on. If you really, actually understand why it's so gross to take a real life tragedy that happened so incredibly recently and play with it like a toy, if you really understood that you had written a story where all the supporting characters were a collection of racist cliches, how could you possibly leave that story up, open to positive feedback? If I had done something like that, and *really* understood what I had done and was sorry for it, that story would be taken down SO FAST.