Discussing the blogkerfuffle to beat blogkerfuffles

Have been debating writing anything on RaceFail - which still sounds a heck of a lot like a bad reality tv series to me. It's not by the way, in case you have no clue what I'm talking about. Although up until about Thursday or Friday, I thought it was. Mostly because people on my flist were vaguely stating things like: "Still watching the insanity that is RaceFail". Watching = tv, in my head, not internet. So I was actually trying to envision it. They race? But they fail? I should only be so lucky. But, no, it's actually a horrible and somewhat insane blog kerfuffle. Not the first I've seen nor I'm certain the last, but it may be by far the worst - since this one actually resulted in invasions of privacy, outright threats and harrassment. If you want to read more about it, I'm sure you can find the links somewhere.

I'm not really qualified to discuss it - because I'm not really part of the community in which it sprung. Also I'm white.
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