Another author weighs in
Mar. 7th, 2009 04:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sunnyskywalkerNaomi Novik says,
Comments include someone's brilliant new coinage, "rectal haberdashers," and Naomi explaining to someone why "but I'm scared to write CoC because I might make a mistake, and worse, get called on it!" is not, actually, a good excuse.
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In particular there is IMO never an excuse when anyone takes an online disagreement, from which they can disengage at any time, and escalates to real-world harm against the people they are disagreeing with. And I include outing in that as well as physical violence. To me, that's Godwin's law raised to the power of a million -- you have lost not only that argument but also any other argument you might ever have, because you are preemptively silencing any disagreeing voices who happen to be vulnerable in the real world, who now know they cannot risk engaging with you. Which is even more problematic in discussions where the whole point is a highly privileged group being criticized by a less privileged group, because people in the latter group are a lot more likely to be vulnerable.
Comments include someone's brilliant new coinage, "rectal haberdashers," and Naomi explaining to someone why "but I'm scared to write CoC because I might make a mistake, and worse, get called on it!" is not, actually, a good excuse.
Verb Noire is taking donations for their start-up costs ($1700). They're over 60% of the way to their goal already! They're working on submission guidelines to be posted soon.
