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I write books about carriages, corsets, and smartwatches. Mother of dinosaurs 🦖🦕. 羽生結弦/紀平梨花 fan account. Bad with directions. She/her.

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    Courtney Milan  🦖‏ @courtneymilan 4 Jan 2020

    I am apparently the new Mao of historical romance. Or your racism is apparently not even subtle.

    1:46 PM - 4 Jan 2020
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      2. Courtney Milan  🦖‏ @courtneymilan 4 Jan 2020

        It’s amazing to me that people can look at me...criticizing a book... and say, “just like Mao.” Because yeah, that’s what Mao was known for. Criticizing books.

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      3. Courtney Milan  🦖‏ @courtneymilan 4 Jan 2020

        But they look at people who literally filed a complaint with an organization with actual institutional power, which then took action to silence me and sent out a notice to its members saying that THEY needed to be silent. And that doesn’t even ping on their radar.

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      4. Courtney Milan  🦖‏ @courtneymilan 4 Jan 2020

        By the way, people who keep claiming that Kathryn Lynn Davis’s book was historically accurate need to put up or shut up. KLD’s book described Chinese female oppression as women having to serve their husbands after marriage. Sorry, this is entirely Western.

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      5. Courtney Milan  🦖‏ @courtneymilan 4 Jan 2020

        She could have made it sound more historically accurate to then-China by mentioning something like mother-in-laws—or making reference to the fact that China doesn’t follow a modern nuclear family. She could have mentioned first wives or concubines.

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      6. Courtney Milan  🦖‏ @courtneymilan 4 Jan 2020

        She didn’t. If you go back to the original thread, you’ll notice I never said that Chinese women weren’t *oppressed*. I said they weren’t *submissive.* Huge difference there. Thanks.

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      7. Courtney Milan  🦖‏ @courtneymilan 4 Jan 2020

        Once they realize the Mao comparison is inaccurate, I’m sure they’ll go back to Genghis Khan, the only other Chinese historical figure they’ve ever heard of.

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      8. Courtney Milan  🦖‏ @courtneymilan 4 Jan 2020

        Criticism is part of free speech, assholes. Squelching criticism is not. Look at which side asked for institutional support in silencing someone else, and look at which side just...criticized. This one is pretty clear.

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      9. Courtney Milan  🦖‏ @courtneymilan 4 Jan 2020

        In any event, please PLEASE take note of how WEIRD it is that numerous accounts are all coming up with the same baffling “Chinese person talking about racism is actually trying to oppress us all with Chinese Communist rule” story. It’s coming from somewhere.

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      10. Courtney Milan  🦖‏ @courtneymilan 4 Jan 2020

        That somewhere is, in large part, racism. But it’s part of a narrative that is beginning to surface. That narrative is going to be louder in the next handful of years, because the white supremacists are going to try to divide us off, one by one.

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      11. Courtney Milan  🦖‏ @courtneymilan 4 Jan 2020

        And I promise you if we don’t fight this shit NOW and call it out for what it is, things are going to get a lot more fascist for a lot more people.

        1 reply 20 retweets 397 likes
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      12. Courtney Milan  🦖‏ @courtneymilan 4 Jan 2020

        Some day, I will tell you the story of my great-grandmother, and you’ll understand why it offends the living shit out of me to be told she was submissive. She was oppressed. She wasn’t submissive.

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      13. Courtney Milan  🦖‏ @courtneymilan 4 Jan 2020

        In any event, what happened here was that I said something on Twitter about a book and then two white women went and told a lie about how they were damaged to another white woman, who apparently encouraged them to file an ethics complaint about me.

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      14. Courtney Milan  🦖‏ @courtneymilan 4 Jan 2020

        The organization they filed the ethics complaint with then created a shadow committee, populated with new people who apparently don’t know what racism is, with a Board Liaison when there is no Board Liaison. That committee found against me on a charge based on lies.

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      15. Courtney Milan  🦖‏ @courtneymilan 4 Jan 2020

        This was then presented to the Board in—at best—truncated form, by that same Board Liaison. As soon as the full evidence came out, more than half the Board recanted their decision and resigned.

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      16. Courtney Milan  🦖‏ @courtneymilan 4 Jan 2020

        Since then, that organization has told people that I am actually a Bad for unrelated reasons, then that my conduct as described in the complaint was actually Bad, and then back maybe to more vague suspicions.

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      17. Courtney Milan  🦖‏ @courtneymilan 4 Jan 2020

        If the thing you’re taking out of this entire tale is that *Courtney* is the one who is trying to take institutional power to punish her enemies? You’re a white supremacist. Thanks for telling on yourself.

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      18. Courtney Milan  🦖‏ @courtneymilan 4 Jan 2020

        What I did when I had a *tiny modicum* of institutional power as a Board member was to work with my fellow Board members to write procedures. Anti-harassment procedures. Ethics procedures. Electronic RITA procedures.

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