| The circumstantial evidence that "Ofek" knew Danielle N. Lee was a person of color is rather strong: * He offered her the blog position based on her current blog contributions, meaning he read them. * There's a photo of Dr. Lee at her blog: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/urban-scientist/ and an even clearer nice photo if you click on it, with a very complete CV, including her Doctorate in Biology. * Her CV includes her 2009 Black Weblog Best Science or Tech Blog Award * Dr. Lee's "Urban Scientist" blog title was a conscious and clever choice. "Urban" has been used as a code word for African-American for a long time. It's used by radio networks to refer to their hip-hop and rap stations, by blog networks to categorize podcasts and blogs, it's just everywhere. Very hard to miss, unless one never reads the popular press or, say, teh internets. * The blog subtitle is "A hip hop maven blogs on urban ecology, evolutionary biology & diversity in the sciences" Conclusion: "Ofek" likely knew Dr. Lee was a person of color. IMHO "Ofek" wouldn't have responded to a female person of caucasianity (I know, not a word) with a Ph.D. with such a slur. Anyways, whatever color "Ofek" thought Dr. Lee was, his response stinks of petulant entitled male outrage at being turned down by a female. Yeah, the sting of rejection hurts, but it's no excuse to engage in any sort of attack. |
So looks like you're right, unfortunately.