I’ve been reading about this in brief spurts over the past few days, especially since Amanda is one of my frequent reads. I agree with what Stephen Suh writes here. I couldn’t understand exactly what people want out of Amanda, and I believe that she and her detractors have done everything possible to make this personal and, thus, impossible to resolve. So, basically, what Stephen Suh said, but with the caveat that it applies to both sides of these arguments.

PS. The whole “X of color” construct (where X is, for example, women or person) is offensive to me. As if, because we’re not white, our experiences and status of privilege are identical. They’re not. We should stop lumping people who have had different racial histories and different prejudices applied to them into some group because we’re “not” something else.