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More on Hugo-gate
Apr. 17th, 2015 09:36 pmSo, I've been scanning articles across the net on Hugo-Gate or PuppyGate. (aka when a right-wing faction of blow-hards and whining men with 12 year old brains, decided to hijack the premiere award for Sci-Fantasy, mainly because they hadn't won any, but were making it political.)
It is hilarious. Brad Torgensen, head of the Sad Puppy brigade is attempting to distance himself from Vox Day (who is apparently from Finland and was an instigator of Gamergate and rather, ahem, extreme in his views). Torgensen writes in a blog post that he and his other Sad Puppy co-hort, are sort of like FDR and Churchill who had to get into bed with Stalin to win a political war. But you shouldn't hold it against them. No really.
LOL! Uh, no, more like Mussolini and the Emperor of Japan in bed with Hitler. And, oh, the conservative papers are supporting them. EW got kicked for calling them misogynistic and racist. (No, more sexist and homophobic...at least initially, unfortunately many of their followers are racist and misogynistic, as is Vox Day.) The conservatives say they are merely following in the tradition of Heinlein (really not, I know I read Heinlein),
and this is a war between the libertarians (Heinlein) and toltarianism (HG Wells--again not really, I've read Wells. Wells hated Toltarianism.) But irony and satire are clearly lost on these people. They think literally. Throw a metaphor at them and they'd duck. Makes it very easy for me to make fun of them though.
I remember an ultra conservative aka libertarian in law school...we had gotten into a debate over whether there should be left-turn signals. He was adamantly against them. To be fair, he lived in Western Kansas -there really isn't much need for them out there.
So, when people tell me they are libertarians...my immediate response is..."yes, I know, you don't believe in left hand turn signals. Good luck with that."
It is hilarious. Brad Torgensen, head of the Sad Puppy brigade is attempting to distance himself from Vox Day (who is apparently from Finland and was an instigator of Gamergate and rather, ahem, extreme in his views). Torgensen writes in a blog post that he and his other Sad Puppy co-hort, are sort of like FDR and Churchill who had to get into bed with Stalin to win a political war. But you shouldn't hold it against them. No really.
LOL! Uh, no, more like Mussolini and the Emperor of Japan in bed with Hitler. And, oh, the conservative papers are supporting them. EW got kicked for calling them misogynistic and racist. (No, more sexist and homophobic...at least initially, unfortunately many of their followers are racist and misogynistic, as is Vox Day.) The conservatives say they are merely following in the tradition of Heinlein (really not, I know I read Heinlein),
and this is a war between the libertarians (Heinlein) and toltarianism (HG Wells--again not really, I've read Wells. Wells hated Toltarianism.) But irony and satire are clearly lost on these people. They think literally. Throw a metaphor at them and they'd duck. Makes it very easy for me to make fun of them though.
I remember an ultra conservative aka libertarian in law school...we had gotten into a debate over whether there should be left-turn signals. He was adamantly against them. To be fair, he lived in Western Kansas -there really isn't much need for them out there.
So, when people tell me they are libertarians...my immediate response is..."yes, I know, you don't believe in left hand turn signals. Good luck with that."