{"id":4400,"date":"2008-05-05T16:33:58","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T23:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/05\/05\/fantasy-and-science-fiction-bingo-no-racism-in-fiction-edition\/"},"modified":"2008-05-05T16:33:58","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T23:53:46","slug":"fantasy-and-science-fiction-bingo-no-racism-in-fiction-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4400","title":{"rendered":"Fantasy and Science Fiction Bingo, No Racism in Fiction Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bingo card for arguments about whether or not racism can exist in fantasy and\/or science fiction.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/fictionbingo.jpg\" alt=\"Bingo card labeled: Fantasy and Science Fiction Bingo, No Racism in Fiction Edition\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Some commenters may be aware of the story and discussion that triggered this bingo card. I&#8217;m not going to link to it because I think the story itself is a red herring from this post. I think the use of an undigested trope was ill-advised, but I also believe it was a good-faith error, and that the author&#8217;s response to critics is genuine.<\/p>\n<p>This Bingo card is presented A) in response to the <i>comments<\/i> on that story, and B) in response to the comments on every other story that spawns variations of these poorly formed arguments. As the Angry Black Woman said about the issue, more or less, whether or not one agrees with a specific charge of racism, using arguments out of the handbook for &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/coffeeandink.livejournal.com\/607897.html\">How to Suppress Discussions of Racism<\/a>&#8221; is NOT the way to prove your point.)<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nFeminist\/womanist, anti-racist commenters only.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bingo card for arguments about whether or not racism can exist in fantasy and\/or science fiction. (Some commenters may be aware of the story and discussion that triggered this bingo card. I&#8217;m not going to link to it because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4400\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","category-race-racism-and-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}