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[quote=Anonymous]I took yesterday “off” from reading and posting and was worried this thread would die. Is there a way to organize some letters or edits to Wikipedia that helps with accountability? Because at some point otherwise the story will fade like the Sarah Dressen story fades. So much is wrapped up here, so many layers/degrees of bad from the lack of social penalty of making racially charged comments (“Kennedy’s” PSL). Imagine a white person used a typically black name and one of the stereotypical (and very harmful) food preferences of POC? I understand racism is about power, but I also think when you have a group of authors deliberately positioning being an underrepresented race as a defense, that’s both disgusting to the other members of the Poc Community as well as, well, racist in the true, power dynamic sense. And trust me I get - absolutely - that one is a paper cut and the other a hemorrhage and am NOT trying to equate the pervasive systemic racism that POC face with this collection of small aggressions and interpersonal / unique power plays where being a WW is brought in as a negative (for Dawn, did it hurt her career?). So there’s that - and I think we need a conversation at the national level that racially derisive comments toward white men (or women) get some scrutiny. Turnabout may feel like fair play but are we not all diminished in kicking others?

Next thing I want to say is the people who abused their power, levying any racial issues aside, must be accountable. Alison Murphy, Chris castellani - are they going to remain employees? Or is the Grub Street writers going to do some investigation and change a process and maybe (maybe) issue a reprimand without removing the problematic board and staff? Seems to me the community is sufficiently insular and wagon circled that it will be the latter unless we (maybe those of us on this thread, certainly kidneygate Twitter thread, etc) keep the attention up.

These authors involved absolutely should have a “controversies” section. How are they getting this removed? I run a small organization and a disgruntled employee once distorted our wiki page and I had a hell of a time getting it fixed - never was able to remove some of it. So how is it that these powerful authors can get real articles removed?

Will Celeste Ng face any blowback? How about Jennifer De Leon?

The call outs need to keep happening - none of these corrupt institutions which are also mired in groupthink will change unless we force them to change. I think that’s why this thread is 81 pages. So many elements touch so many of us because they’re festering in the environment right now. For me what happened to dawn is triggering because so many small scale incidents - similar to some that have touched me - are all represented in one story.

Thank ALL of you for this thread.

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