On October 31st, Meg Rosoff posted this to her Facebook page:
Rosoff has said a good many disparaging things about me that I'm ignoring. This one, I will not ignore.
Like millions of people, I love Star Wars. But Rosoff is wrong in calling those of us who point out stereotyping, bias, and misrepresentations "stormtroopers." She's trying to cast us as evil for what we do. She is equating us with Nazi stormtroopers.
We're not bad guys. As Rene Saldana said, he thinks of me as a Jedi Knight. Lot of people said they want to make t-shirts with Rosoff's phrase on them, but we say who we are.
Let's do something like this instead:
Jedi Knights in Solidarity:
Fighting Crimes Against Diversity
or how about...
Jedi Knights in Solidarity:
Fighting Ignorance, One Rosoff at a Time*
There's a lot of writers doing this work! I'd love to see what you come up with! Adding graphics...
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*I said "fighting ignorance" because Rosoff said she looked it up and did not know the word "squaw" is, quoting her: "sometimes (not always) considered insulting."
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*I said "fighting ignorance" because Rosoff said she looked it up and did not know the word "squaw" is, quoting her: "sometimes (not always) considered insulting."
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