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[alexseanchai]

...just for the record, if the Kickstarter for People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction And Horror doesn't get at least to And Fantasy (they're ~$2500 away at the moment, with five days to go), preferably to 1000% of their goal like Women Destroy Science Fiction And Horror And Fantasy and Queers Destroy Science Fiction And Horror And Fantasy (they're ~$12,500 away), I am going to be very disappointed in speculative fiction fandom for being racist.

Not surprised, mind you. But disappointed.

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[alexseanchai]

My thinking--and take all this in light of "the PoCDSF Kickstarter hit the And Fantasy stretch goal forty dollars ago", so my initial statement is hella less applicable now than it was when I made it--is that the people who back the X Destroy Science Fiction Kickstarters are numerous enough to be a reasonable, if not necessarily wholly representative, sample of speculative fiction fandom as a whole, and therefore we can perhaps look at that Kickstarter series and draw conclusions about speculative fiction fandom. On the individual level, there are stacks of reasons not to back any particular crowdfunding project, a lot of which have nothing in particular to do with the project itself. Insufficient money, as you said, is certainly one, and insufficient give-a-shit about crowdfunding generally, as you said, is certainly another.

It's fundamentally the same reasoning as "there's not a whole lot of Tony/Rhodey in MCU fandom, nor much Shawn/Gus in Psych fandom, but the dynamics between Tony and Rhodey and between Shawn and Gus are basically the same dynamics as Insert Highly Slashed White Men Here--hm, I wonder what Tony/Rhodey and Shawn/Gus might have in common that the Highly Slashed White Men don't?" That thing is of course that Rhodey and Gus are black. That's not in any way an indictment of any specific MCU fans who ship Tony/Steve and not Tony/Rhodey, or any specific Psych fans who ship Shawn/The Next Most Prominent White Guy and not Shawn/Gus. It's just...commentary on how society-wide racism can exist without anyone involved behaving in an individually or consciously racist manner.