ext_1177 ([identity profile] elspethdixon.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] elspethdixon 2009-01-31 11:03 pm (UTC)

There's also the tried and true, "You are wrong and hysterical, because any intelligent person would know that XYZ" (which I've seen elsewhere during the course of this whole thing, largely from medievalist as she explained that people were interogating E. Bear's text from the wrong perspective).

I've been both hysterical and wrong before, and no doubt will be again, but in this case I'm hoping that my not being entirely correct won't cause people to be distracted by etymology/conflicting word definitions from the major issues at hand (TNH openly insulting fans of color in a post full of implied threats). Because the fact that I'm very far from an expert on Germanic languages doesn't make that kind of behavior from someone in her position any less awful.

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