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where it was left off over on Unfunny Business, Elizabeth Moon's invite as Guest of Honor to Wiscon has been Officially Rescinded.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 Moon's really fairly snippy leaving of the birthday party; since her GoH status was rescinded, she's decided just not to play (rather than attending and facing real live human beings).

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zellieh
2010-10-24 10:00 am UTC (link)

I was reading the comments to the Officially Rescinded post, and Will Shetterly -- after he called Moon out on her original fail, in an unexpected moment of surprise decency -- turned up in the comments, protesting about it being some sort of conspiracy: "WisCon [delete "encourages"] [insert "suppresses"] discussion and debate of ideas relating to feminism, gender, race and class. Fixed that for you." and "pst314, those are also the tactics of good conservative witch-hunters and crusaders. Suppressing speech is not limited to any political ideology." Clearly it was a very isolated moment of perspicacity on his part, and regular service has now resumed.

I LOVE lydiabell, though: "Elizabeth Moon only "exactly fits the group's mission" if you believe that feminism doesn't include Muslim women. Because her bigotry insulted and hurt Muslim women, and her mindset encourages discrimination against them."

And, oh, lanning, I adore you too: "Let me try to say this in small words. Refusing to honor hate speech does not suppress hate speech. Ms. Moon is free to be hateful wherever she goes."

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