Thank you for posting this. Every response that you have written thus far in response to RaceFail has hit me in the gut and, in some cases, moved me to tears with simultaneously being bowled over by your gorgeous articulation. So thank you. Elizabeth Bear's latest blowhard post is absolutely horrifying; the fact that she doesn't get it after casting herself as the mediator and voice of reason is so discouraging.

(And I owe you a long overdue and extremely heartfelt apology for things that happened in 2007, but I will deal with that separately, because here and now is not the place.)