{"id":5774,"date":"2014-10-20T15:38:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T20:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=5774"},"modified":"2014-10-20T15:38:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T20:38:52","slug":"benjanun-sriduangkaew-apologises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2014\/10\/20\/benjanun-sriduangkaew-apologises\/","title":{"rendered":"Benjanun Sriduangkaew apologises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nBenjanun Sriduangkaew\/Requires Hate has broken her silence and apologies for her actions, <a href=\"http:\/\/requireshate.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/15\/apologies-and-finality\/\">first at Requires Hate<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nApologies aren\u2019t easy to make. I\u2019ll do my best and acknowledge that it\u2019s not a magic word. First, I will say that I stand by the substance of most of what I\u2019ve said on this blog. But not how I said it. I\u2019ve gained a much better understanding of consequences and how people work, and the way I said much of what I said ignored the humanity of those on the receiving end. It\u2019s a failure of empathy on my part. I make no excuses about this: I own up to what I said, and I own up that I conducted myself fantastically badly. I believed I was doing good and was punching up, and that my methods were perfectly fine weapons when in actuality they really weren\u2019t. No excuses: many things in life can contribute to you conducting yourself one way or another, but generally you have your own agency.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nAnd then at <a href=\"http:\/\/beekian.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/20\/the-things-that-we-do-on-mistakes-on-apologies\/\">her new blog<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nBut I want, at least, some measure of a chance to explain myself. I\u2019m not owed this chance. You aren\u2019t obliged to read beyond the line. You don\u2019t have to, at all. But please know that, if I\u2019ve hurt you, I\u2019m sorry.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nI&#8217;m not one of the people who were attacked by Requires Hate or deceived by Benjanun Sriduangkaew &#8212; I doubt I&#8217;m on her radar &#8212; so it&#8217;s not up to me to say whether her apologies are good enough. But I hope they&#8217;re sincere and that this can be the start of healing the wounds these actions and those undertaken in defense or retaliation against her have created in science fiction fandom.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt strikes me that Nick Mamatas, by bringing the Requires Hate\/Benjanun Sriduangkaew connection out in the open as he did, had it by the right end. Her real identity was an open secret before that, but only if you were in the loop. Mamatas made it impossible for Sriduangkaew to keep up the pretence and he cut down the whispering campaign against her off at the knees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjanun Sriduangkaew\/Requires Hate has broken her silence and apologies for her actions, first at Requires Hate: Apologies aren\u2019t easy to make. I\u2019ll do my best and acknowledge that it\u2019s not a magic word. First, I will say that I stand by the substance of most of what I\u2019ve said on this blog. But not how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1818,22],"tags":[2063,2064],"class_list":["post-5774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fandom-2","category-science-fiction","tag-benjanun-sriduangkaew","tag-requires-hate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5775,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5774\/revisions\/5775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}