when fandom adopts it as wank, posts about any other aspect other than how horrible it is (which 40 people have said already!) get labeled as "derailing."
The reason I used the word "imbroglio" is that I'm uncomfortable with "wank" in this context, since the latter term almost always comes off to me as having really dismissive connotations regardless of intent. As I understand it, the fear of "policing" discussion has always been with us (she said portentously) as long as there's been controversy on social issues as expressed on LJ/DW. In the earlier argument over the linkspam community marking posts that were spinning off racism debates to talk about other things as "derailment" even if the people posting the tangential posts were not commenting to the posts about racism, as far as I've looked into it I understand but am not in favor of the mods' behavior in that case. I guess what I'm really uncomfortable with is the associated idea that the "POC cabal," or in this case the hypothetical cabal rocking with the feminism / anti-ableism / anti- rape culture, including trivialization of child sexual abuse, is out there being Big Brother and suppressing discussion all over the interwebs, or even all over LJ/DW; (for starters) I don't think that's true.
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The reason I used the word "imbroglio" is that I'm uncomfortable with "wank" in this context, since the latter term almost always comes off to me as having really dismissive connotations regardless of intent. As I understand it, the fear of "policing" discussion has always been with us (she said portentously) as long as there's been controversy on social issues as expressed on LJ/DW. In the earlier argument over the linkspam community marking posts that were spinning off racism debates to talk about other things as "derailment" even if the people posting the tangential posts were not commenting to the posts about racism, as far as I've looked into it I understand but am not in favor of the mods' behavior in that case. I guess what I'm really uncomfortable with is the associated idea that the "POC cabal," or in this case the hypothetical cabal rocking with the feminism / anti-ableism / anti- rape culture, including trivialization of child sexual abuse, is out there being Big Brother and suppressing discussion all over the interwebs, or even all over LJ/DW; (for starters) I don't think that's true.