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maevele ([personal profile] maevele) wrote2010-09-15 03:43 pm

I finally

worked up the strength to try to read the post by elizabeth moon everyone is talking about, and I feel sick. I'm horrified that this is coming from one of next wiscon's guests of honor. I honestly could puke.
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[identity profile] rhipowered.livejournal.com 2010-09-15 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, the fact that what he's saying is pretty well on target illuminates the massive fucked up here. WHAT THE SHIT.

[identity profile] onceupon.livejournal.com 2010-09-15 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
When Shetterly is your canary in a mineshaft, the world has turned on its ear.
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[identity profile] rhipowered.livejournal.com 2010-09-15 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I then felt the need to tell her that.

And to point out that they do the kind of shit she's advocating in Europe, and call it progressive too, but no one is fucking fooled by it; scratch the surface and it's still bigotry.

[identity profile] onceupon.livejournal.com 2010-09-15 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I can't deal with that guy going on in the Shetterly thread about how you can't use West Africa as an example and how Nigerians are dumb. I am not a person who trolls! I don't know what has come over me.

[identity profile] meleth.livejournal.com 2010-09-16 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
"Yes, but the actions of those Christians don't count because there are a lot of Muslims there too!"
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[identity profile] vito-excalibur.livejournal.com 2010-09-17 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
He's not a canary in the mineshaft! He's like a mole in a mineshaft! WHEN YOUR MOLE HAS GIVEN UP THE GHOST AND IS ALL "ACK...AIR PLEASE!" YOU HAVE PROBLEMS.