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1. Be kind. Be respectful.

2. Support Content Creators.

3. Don't force your opinion on someone else.

Spin the wheel again. That’s who’s trying to protect you.

(If you have zero idea about a name you got, spin until you see someone you recognize.)

the jedi are a culture that values knowledge and the creation and dissemination thereof and would therefore (imho) prioritize information vetting, information accuracy and veracity, and access to information. the library/archive staff would be there to help vet info and provide access.

head archivist is not the head of the library or the archives as a whole in the real world. (when i worked at a university museum, the libraries had a dean. my public library has a president. when i worked at a historical society with a library and print room, there was a ceo above the head of the library department. even in a stand alone archive, the big boss is probably an upper level manager, not someone who works hands on with the collection.)

in the opposite direction, head archivist is likely managing workers more than working hands-on with the collection. (side note: where are the other librarians/archivists who work there? head archivist is way too busy to be walking the floor. even if the head archivist is doing hands on work, it's probably back of house work processing the neverending backlog or making sure the last database update implemented properly etc.)

librarians and archivists have different job descriptions and different priorities

no archivist or librarian that i've ever worked with has ever deemed their collection complete and authoritative (even when that collection is treated by scholars as authoritative)

"This is like saying female-owned businesses mean nothing because J.K Rowling is a businesswoman". Incredibly, that's exactly what I'm saying. I applaud this critique for correctly identifying how my stance might be applied elsewhere.

But what I would ask is this: do you not remember how JKR (being a successful female author and businesswoman) was lauded as a feminist hero during the peak of the books' success which allowed her to make a large part of modern feminism incredibly TERF-y because of her influence? Because I think we should all do well to remember that.

Interestingly, this critique then goes on to make my entire point for me, albeit maybe slightly more charitably than I. It goes on to say "queer people are not a monolith" and that we should inform ourselves as to who owns these businesses. Yes! Yes! This is my point! Relying purely on identity politics to judge whether businesses (and people) are good or not is bad!

It closes out by saying big corps "don't count" when talking about queer-owned businesses. Honestly? Yeah, I agree. Most of the time, people are talking about small queer-owned businesses. That is because this post is a joke. I have applied the label of "queer-owned business" to some businesses the label is not usually applied to to point out the limits of identity politics in business.

...which could mean nothing.

Nick Gillard interviewed by IGN / Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith Novelization written by Matthew Stover / Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith

Bonus:

You have been turned into this type of mermaid!!