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A part of it is that Courtney Milan is very popular on Twitter - I have no hard feelings against the author, and she does good work with her original intentions, but she also loves stirring the flames and social media drama. I've seen it for years since I'm active on there with various book stuff, the main reason I joined Twitter.

I don't know about the validity of all these racist claims, but many are hurt if they aren't valid, which I think was the intent of the complaint. It seems like RWA has a lot of political turmoil, and they have had legit racist history as well, so I am not defending against that. Sometimes Courtney really does go hunting for drama to find and nitpick to share on the social media, however, which is what I think the initial complaint was pointing out.

With the social media climate the way it is now, trying to defend or explain would just get distorted and backfire when people are this worked up.

RWA has such a rocky history anyway, and after this? I don't see a way for RWA to salvage this other than disbanding.