{"id":66,"date":"2014-10-02T14:38:29","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T18:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yusipka.com\/?p=66"},"modified":"2017-06-15T13:25:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T17:25:54","slug":"come-learn-a-lot-about-tolerance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yusipka.com\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"Come, “…learn a lot about tolerance”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Can we adjust the definition of “racist” for a day or two? Hold on, maybe not. Maybe we’ll just print a column with…<\/p>\n

According to Mary Elizabeth Williams (hmmm… sounds like a white person’s name, am I racissss?) over in Salon<\/em>: It\u2019s not racist to sue over a mixed-race baby<\/a>. However, that’s not really what Williams says, but maybe it is, or it isn’t. She ends with:<\/p>\n

Payton’s moms have probably had to learn a lot about tolerance and acceptance already in life, and there\u2019s no doubt she will teach them much more. All of that possible \u2014 and it still means the clinic made a big mistake and should be held accountable for it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, “moms” plural. Lesbian couple, which is why they are getting the kid gloves treatment here from the ever-inane Salon<\/em>. “We’ve got a victimological conflict; 20 CC’s of desalinated obfuscation, STAT!” It’s not the fact that it’s a mixed race baby that’s the problem, it’s the fact that it’s not the baby they wanted and it’s going to cause them inconvenience because it’s not white and…<\/p>\n

I recommend you just skip over the column and go straight to the comments where you will learn<\/a>, among other things, that;<\/p>\n

To have concerns and preferences about race need not be “racist”. It’s ok for chinese couples to want chinese babies, etc, etc. If this clinic screwed up, they should pay.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My my and lol! (Maybe I better screencap all this.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Can we adjust the definition of “racist” for a day or two? Hold on, maybe not. Maybe we’ll just print a column with… According to Mary Elizabeth Williams (hmmm… sounds like a white person’s name, am I racissss?) over in Salon: It\u2019s not racist to sue over a mixed-race baby. 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