tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769341.post8633713593632423580..comments2024-02-18T03:10:48.829-05:00Comments on Blogfonte: Mitch H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01630047498946143646noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769341.post-87777132274999055142010-10-24T19:41:57.588-04:002010-10-24T19:41:57.588-04:00Ah, nevermind. I see. How utterly, stereotypical...Ah, nevermind. I <a href="http://cloggie.org/wissewords2/2009/05/12/oh-no-lois-bujold-no/" rel="nofollow">see</a>. How utterly, stereotypically McCarthyesque. Defend a friend, get blackballed by the Party.Mitch H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01630047498946143646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769341.post-56240435158266623232010-10-24T19:34:04.106-04:002010-10-24T19:34:04.106-04:00What did they do to Bujold? Scalzi's always b...What did they do to Bujold? Scalzi's always been kind of open to this sort of party intimidation - his blog's so pantingly subservient to the good-intentions mafia; I never really paid attention to Stross, but from all accounts he's that sort of left-libertarian with zero self-awareness of his own capacity for self-justification and ego protection.<br /><br />Bujold, on the other hand, is so beloved and middle-of-the-road that I would have expected her fans to have beaten any would-be commissars into the proverbial dirt in sheer institutional deference.Mitch H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01630047498946143646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769341.post-69705455708071722962010-10-24T17:29:33.719-04:002010-10-24T17:29:33.719-04:00I have, at the very least, seen major authors in t...I have, at the very least, seen major authors in the field (Scalzi, Stross, Bujold, now Moon) intimidated and forced into silence online by these folks. That's not an actual physical threat, but it's not nothing either.<br /><br />Besides, this may be absurdly idealistic, but I still think the point of science fiction is to explore unusual ideas, and that's not possible if authors have to (or believe they have to, which is ultimately the same thing) pick their way through a PC minefield. Real damage is being done to the field.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08587234652393541074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769341.post-58710027311874184442010-10-24T09:37:57.550-04:002010-10-24T09:37:57.550-04:00Do the mobs actually had any physical presence, be...Do the mobs actually had any physical presence, beyond the imploding SF convention scene? I don't know all that much about mainstream SF fandom these days. I think I stopped paying attention in 2004 or 2005. It seemed to be collapsing into an aging, decadent bore at the time, not that this was new information. I hadn't even realized that WisCon was some sort of hyperfeminist ideological con until this week.<br /><br />Anyways, unless The Party has authority & leverage, I wouldn't get excited about show trial theatrics, other than to point and laugh. But it is a good reminder that government and the courts are codified violence - be careful into whose hands you place the weaponized law.Mitch H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01630047498946143646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769341.post-39837085708791512012010-10-23T17:12:26.607-04:002010-10-23T17:12:26.607-04:00This "fail fandom" stuff is honestly the...This "fail fandom" stuff is honestly the scariest phenomenon I've ever seen on-line. Mobs enforcing political diktats, complete with enemies lists, show trials, and ritual denunciations... that sort of thing rarely ends well.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08587234652393541074noreply@blogger.com