ThisIsIt wrote:
That's an interesting case since it seems it could either be blackface or "blackface".
That's true enough.
Also, from NBC: Fairfax's reaction to Tyson's allegation:
"Fuck that bitch." My colleague, Mr. Windywave, is being too charitable to the Commonwealth when he calls it a dumpster fire. Heh.
Updated to add: I gets even better (or worse for Fairfax, that is). It seems
Tyson had told this story well before the current eruption, at least among her friends and to sexual-assault activists (though the below is still secondhand, at best):
"Tyson’s Stanford colleague Jennifer Freyd told the Bay Area News Group on Tuesday that sometime last fall, at the start of their fellowship program, Tyson told Freyd and a couple of other colleagues about the 2004 encounter at the Boston convention. Freyd doesn’t remember whether Tyson named Fairfax, but said that she spoke about it while “illustrating a concept” they were discussing about sexual violence.
“It was not that remarkable in that many times I’ve sat with colleagues and they talked about being victimized and how it fits in with what we are talking about,” said Freyd, a University of Oregon psychology professor who is part of the same Stanford behavioral sciences fellowship program with Tyson. …
Although Tyson has not personally gone public with her account, she told Freyd in an email Monday that it was OK for this publication to identify her because “her name is public now” after she was identified in a conservative blog on Sunday.
“She’s super smart and thoughtful. I’ve experienced her as a person of enormous integrity, courage and authenticity,” Freyd said. Both are scheduled to be part of a Stanford symposium on Feb. 12 called “Betrayal and Courage in the Age of #MeToo.”"
"Politics is just show business for ugly people."