Mercedes Lackey Ejected From Nebula Conference For Using Racial Slur

[Zardnaar]

Like Negro, I typically wouldn't use colored unless describing something in its historical context such as the Bureau of Colored Troops or Negro league baseball. I would never describe someone today as a Negro or colored person though. And while I've used "people of color" in recent years, I try to avoid it because it makes me a little uncomfortable because to my ear it's very close to calling someone colored.

Blazing Saddles was released in theaters way back in 1974.

I know I was born in 78 though.

I saw it as a child mid 80's though at least 88 or earlier as parents were not divorced.

Small Town NZ and only black family in town was a dentist from South Africa.

I didn't understand some references into the 90's and alot was osmosis from American TV shows.

 

[Myrdin Potter]

My hometown (Hayward, CA) has a Hispanic majority, and "Estadounidense" is the standard in Spanish for someone from the United States.

If that is where you live vs. where you are from, we live just a couple of towns apart.

 

[Parmandur]

If that is where you live vs. where you are from, we live just a couple of towns apart.

Where I am from, but we may still be just a few towns apart, give or take a Bay.

 

[Myrdin Potter]

Where I am from, but we may still be just a few towns apart, give or take a Bay.

I live 2 towns to the east of Hayward down 580.

I am from Montreal, which is a lot of towns away.

And that is a strange place for prejudice where you have to hear someone speak to figure it out.

 

[Parmandur]

I live 2 towns to the east of Hayward down 580.

I am from Montreal, which is a lot of towns away.

And that is a strange place for prejudice where you have to hear someone speak to figure it out.

Yeah, I know where you mean, knew a lot of people in that area growing up. I'm the opposite direction at this point in my life, across the Bay to the Southwest.

I know some people who have lived in Montreal, sounds like a different scene from Silicon Valley.

 

[Ixal]

By the way, according to his twitter Larry Dixon, Mercedes's husband, was also banned from Nebula because of guilt by association.

 

[John R Davis]

By the way, according to his twitter Larry Dixon, Mercedes's husband, was also banned from Nebula because of guilt by association.

Really?

Glad I don't drive a Mercedes or I'd be doomed too!

 

[Tonguez]

A few years back, in some circles at least, it became somewhat trendy to refer to Americans as "USians." And at first I found it amusing, but after a bit it annoyed the hell out of me. In my entire life, I've never referred to myself as a USian, I didn't know anyone else who referred to us as USians, and I didn't care for others to to identify me in a manner that had nothing to do with how I identified myself.

I use USAians quite often as it makes it easier to distinguish peoples from other parts of the American continent - like Canadians or Columbians or Native Americans. Many of the terms used for peoples across the globe began as exonyms, used by others to label different national or ethnic groups, so being offended by it is somewhat a privileged position…

 

[Ondath]

By the way, according to his twitter Larry Dixon, Mercedes's husband, was also banned from Nebula because of guilt by association.

Wow they just suck at crisis management, don't they?

 

[Umbran]

If one of the panelists was personally offended, surely the organisers could've tried to handle the issue in private?

Organizations today have to contend with social media - if they try to handle the issue in private, and the offended party is not satisfied, the issue will not stay private, and it looks like an attempt to cover it all up.