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con_txtWe received some very fair comments about "The 'Not in Cdrama Fandom' Support Group" panel in the voting survey. People were rightfully concerned by the focus on Chinese fandoms when the barriers mentioned applied to other, non-Chinese fandoms. That exclusionary focus was racist.
Our long-standing process has been to put panels up for voting as submitted and rework them if needed on the backend, after voting is complete. It's clear that this approach is insufficient.
We had flagged this panel internally and had no intention of putting it on the schedule without substantial revisions (e.g., as a panel about finding new fandoms generally), but we realize now that there was no way for anyone to know that. By including the panel on our survey, we implied that we saw no problems with it.
It was a huge oversight on our part to put this panel on our survey as it stood. We apologize deeply for that oversight and for contributing through our inaction to Sinophobia and racism.
We have removed the panel in question from our programming survey, and have revised our processes so that in the future we will address any concerning content in suggested programming before we share the survey.
Our long-standing process has been to put panels up for voting as submitted and rework them if needed on the backend, after voting is complete. It's clear that this approach is insufficient.
We had flagged this panel internally and had no intention of putting it on the schedule without substantial revisions (e.g., as a panel about finding new fandoms generally), but we realize now that there was no way for anyone to know that. By including the panel on our survey, we implied that we saw no problems with it.
It was a huge oversight on our part to put this panel on our survey as it stood. We apologize deeply for that oversight and for contributing through our inaction to Sinophobia and racism.
We have removed the panel in question from our programming survey, and have revised our processes so that in the future we will address any concerning content in suggested programming before we share the survey.
