Comments on: INCITE! Needs Your Help

By: Ico

Ico — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:38:27 +0000

It is working now. :D

By: L-K

L-K — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:47:10 +0000

Alisa – thanks for the update and clarification (now I can donate)! I’m glad that they’re reporting that Gustav was downgraded to a Category 2 by the time it arrived at NOLA. Yet, I guess we have to wait to see the true impact. Please let us know how the folks over at WHJI are doing!

Thanks Cara for removing the links to her blog. I was going to comment on it, but I didn’t want to push this thread off-topic. Although, yes, besides absolutely incoherent, (I don’t think I ever said that many “huh’s” and “wtf?’s” in my life; I was seriously considering sending her links to some writing guides, but I didn’t want her to make her sh*t coherent for anyone) the content was…umm, yeah, what Puppycat said, disturbing and in absolute contrast to this site’s content.

By: Cara

Cara — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:07:40 +0000

Thanks Puppycat, I went and removed the link from MDS’s comments on this post at least.

By: Puppycat

Puppycat — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:41:53 +0000

A little off topic from post and discussion of MDS’s racism but just a warning, MDS has really, really triggering content on site that has no warnings. Like depictions of violent gruesome, sexually violent murders. please stay away if that isn’t going to sit right with you.

By: Alisa

Alisa — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:09:34 +0000

Hey everyone,

Alisa from INCITE! here. Thanks so much for the support on all the blogs!! The response has truly been incredible and we’re really moved by the love and solidarity.

We’ll probably send another e-mail soon, but wanted to mention that paypal was occasionally not working over the weekend b/c of some paypal bug. We called them up to see what was up, and they were working on fixing it. For those of you who couldn’t donate, please try again and holla back about how it worked out.

Many thanks, warmth, gratitude!!!

By: shannon

shannon — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:09:12 +0000

I hope that no other idiots try to ruin things for everyone. I was able to donate yesterday online.

By: Renee

Renee — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:00:23 +0000

Thanks Cara, at a time like this when so many are suffering the insensitivity of someone who clearly harbors such racial intolerance is upsetting and not needed.

By: Cara

Cara — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:02:50 +0000

Folks — my sincerest apologies for MDS. Sie has been leaving really obnoxious comments for a couple of days now, many of which have already been deleted. I thought we had hir on moderation, but I’m guessing sie found a new IP. In any case, this definitely crossed the line by a few miles, and Mystery Dyke Squadron is now banned. I regret not following my gut and making it happen sooner.

What an asshole.

By: bint alshamsa

bint alshamsa — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:08:51 +0000

For the record, I know several of the women in that chapter and they are amazing women who have been committed to helping this community for many years. I’ve worked with Shana in the past, back when we went to college together. She and I and several of the other pictured women go way back and, for what it’s worth, I can vouch for the amazing work that they are doing. There are many white sisters who do “get it” (i.e. they can easily understand why the “poor people are poor people” assertion is simply nonsense) and they are just as committed to serving the under-served population of “minority” women here in the Greater New Orleans Area.

Uhh, I feel disgusted by the fact that I’m answering the question that Mystery Dyke Squadron asked but I figured I might as well do so for those who may have been wondering the same thing but at least had the good sense not to make an ass of themselves…

Thanks for keeping us in your thoughts, people! I can’t believe we’re going through this again so soon after our lives were torn apart by Hurricane Katrina.

By: bint alshamsa

bint alshamsa — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:58:38 +0000

You know what? This shit is truly stupid. Mystery Dyke Squadron is simply playing the role of provocateur. Attention hogs crop up whenever they think they can get a reaction out of people who would normally ignore their illogical and erroneous theories. Anyone who looked at the link can see that there are white women right there alongside everyone else. Of course the majority of women that the clinic helps will be “minorities” because they/we are the ones who make up the majority of folks who need the services they provide.

Mystery Dyke Squadron is a dunce and the worst part of it is that she is not even a particularly amusing dunce. I mean, “racially distinct”? What the heck does she even think that means?

No one is racially distinct. Whether someone is perceived as being a part of a particular race depends on so many factors that there is no one race that a person will always labeled as regardless of where they go. However, those who are labeled in particular ways are often discriminated against to an extent that certainly isn’t equal to how others are treated. “Poor people are poor people”? Yeah, riiiight! Poor people who are noticeably physically disabled have the same experiences as non-disabled poor people, right? And poor people who speak English with a “foreign” accent aren’t ever treated differently than those poor people who can pass for being born here, right? And poor people who have a lot of children have the same needs as those without any kids, right? The only part that Mystery Dyke Squadron got right was when she said

“I still struggle to understand who this works”

That part is definitely true. She is clueless. My suggestion to her:

Lurk moar. It might help you figure out how to avoid exposing your stupidity.