"Nobody on social media opened the panel with criticism and insults strong enough to drive the moderator from the room."
How do you know this? I was there. The weight of the internet fell on that room. Everything that had been said before on social media created the situation in which this happened. We who were there could have been given a voice and a chance to solve this. But we were outshouted by the internet.
People were hurt, a room full of people who were eager to discuss how literature has grown to include more people, and to discuss the double meanings of the title. But we could do nothing anymore.
I am angry with you. I'm angry with everyone on the internet who got involved on this, because you took my power from me, and you still are. I was there. You weren't. But all of you did more to control and now to interpret what happened than I and the other people at the convention could. By the time we arrived in that room, the damage had been done.
Will all of you apologize for silencing all of us? For taking from us the opportunity to set things right as the people most directly affected?
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Date: 2017-11-16 03:44 am (UTC)How do you know this? I was there. The weight of the internet fell on that room. Everything that had been said before on social media created the situation in which this happened. We who were there could have been given a voice and a chance to solve this. But we were outshouted by the internet.
People were hurt, a room full of people who were eager to discuss how literature has grown to include more people, and to discuss the double meanings of the title. But we could do nothing anymore.
I am angry with you. I'm angry with everyone on the internet who got involved on this, because you took my power from me, and you still are. I was there. You weren't. But all of you did more to control and now to interpret what happened than I and the other people at the convention could. By the time we arrived in that room, the damage had been done.
Will all of you apologize for silencing all of us? For taking from us the opportunity to set things right as the people most directly affected?