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come_love_sleep ([info]come_love_sleep) wrote in [info]unfunny_fandom,
@ 2010-10-22 22:43:00


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Elizabeth Moon vs. Sense, Round Two
Continuing from where it was left off over on Unfunny Business, Elizabeth Moon's invite as Guest of Honor to Wiscon has been Officially Rescinded. Not by the concom; by their superiors, who announced this with a very short statement.

Comments, predictably, are rather full of fail. Venture hence fully understanding the risk to your blood pressure. Lots of the usual "PC brigade will RUINS THE WORLD!" bullshit.

Discussing this: Cat Valente, Nick Mamatas, and N. K. Jemisin. The ever-fiery Karnythia has some stuff to say about the con itself.

Ms. Moon is entirely silent.

ETA: Cyan_Aura was kind enough to provide mention, and Juliansinger to provide a link to Ms. Moon's really fairly snippy leaving of the birthday party; since her GoH status was rescinded, she's decided just not to play (rather than attending and facing real live human beings).


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[info]komorebi
2010-10-23 06:16 pm UTC (link)
Oooh, a sane anon amongst a throng of highly unfunny commenters.

Can I just say, as a libertarian, that I hope the people railing against WisCon's decision to not invite someone to their own damn con, and claiming that they do so on the grounds of some weird idea of "free speech", will greet the spontaneous appearence of whatever Wahhabist boogey-man they are currently freaking out about at their own conventions with open arms?

This is the *definition* of freedom, people. You can invite people, and then you can disinvite them if they say dumb, rude, nonsense (or you think so).

Confusing this with book-burning and theocracy demonstrates a profound misunderstanding of the very values you people feebly imagine you're defending.


... I'm posting this because everything else in the comments spewing gynophobic/Islamophobic sentiments makes me feel ashamed to be an SF fan.

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[info]cyndra_falin
2010-10-23 07:07 pm UTC (link)
I love that anon!

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