Hugest waste of time ever (race card bonus)

[MystyGlyttyr]

At least it seemed that way to me.

I just spent an hour of my workday in the meeting room making copies of every single image of a minority face we had run since the beginning of October. I ended up with a stack of paper an inch tall. A literal inch. I got my ruler and measured it. Three tiny lines past an inch.

The reason I had to do this was because there is some local group of citizens who are trying to say that our paper is racist and never ever runs photos of black people or something like that. And they're coming up here tomorrow for some kind of "meeting" or something with the editors. Where the editors are going to end up showing them this freaking treasure trove of photography I was forced to compile to actually deal with this.

I'll let ya'll know how it turns out. Share in my misery.

(It's not that they're declaring us racist that bugs me, it's that they're declaring us racist in the face of OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE that bugs me. If they had ever actually LOOKED at our paper, they'd have seen at least one non-white face per paper, usually much, much more. Grrr.)

[Evil Queen]

Stupidity knows no colour.

[taxguykarl]

The reason I had to do this was because there is some local group of citizens who are trying to say that our paper is racist and never ever runs photos of black people or something like that. And they're coming up here tomorrow for some kind of "meeting" or something with the editors.

Could your editor please ask (or as they might pronounce "axe") them what it is like having nothing better to worry about?

Seriously though, do let us know how this meeting goes.

[Balgram]

Ditto on that. What the crap.

[Zeniq]

Sounds like they glanced over one or two pages of an issue, found that there were no minorities on them, and decided that the rest of the paper, and all its other issues, must be the same way.

[JoitheArtist]

We get something similar at my job all the time. I write the newsletter that are sent to members, one by email once a week, and one big one by PDF four times a year on the website.

now, our membership comes from all over the world, but the vast majority are here in the U.S. But you should hear the Australians, Canadians, and British complain that we never run their stories!! (note: no offense to anyone in any of those countries, I actually love all three. You just have your fair share of EWs)

This is, in fact, completely untrue. We run at LEAST one international story in every weekly email (there's maybe once or twice a year when we simply don't have any stories from them to run), and the same in the big newsletter. we only run about 5 stories per newsletter, so they get a bigger representation than is really deserved. But they continue to howl that we "NEVER run our stories!"

Gah!

Oh, and did I mention that most of our international members never think to actually send IN their stories? Sorry ladies, we don't have spies among you, we don't know what you've been doing unless you tell us.

[Crazeyal]

Three tiny lines past an inch.

Uh.. Misty.. That's 3/16ths..

[Apathy]

Yes, it must be nice to have enough time to pull shit like this. Personally, I'd spend it reading or playing video games.

As for the douches, perhaps they never thought about, oh I don't know... not reading the paper if it offends them so.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Why can't we just point and laugh at these people?

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Why can't we just point and laugh at these people?

Because then we'd be accused of hurwting their pwechious widdle feelings.

Frankly, this is a good example of stupidity knowing no boundaries . . .

[karma_gypsy]

What if they never show up?



Then you won't have the delightful opportunity of rubbing it in their faces.

[bainsidhe]

Oh how I'd love to be a fly on the wall of that meeting.

[Mr Hero]

If you live in the U.S. it's almost impossible NOT to print photos of minorities considering how recent the presidential elections were.

[Plaidman]

I got a bad feeling about this. I'm also hoping I'm not sounding racist, though it does to my own ears.

Assuming they show up, and see the photos.


Minor question: Do the photos come with small bits on what articiles they were on? Are they mostly people being arreseted for so and so?

They could turn it then that the paper only cares about minorities being arreseted.


So for backup, you should have the ten inches of whites being arrested.

[mattm04]

These are the people who will call everyone racist, when in reality that are the racists. They listen to the people who make every minor issue into race an therefore assume everything is about race.