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07-10-2008, 01:15 AM
Toby essentially says everything that I've been thinking about the current fuss over yet another bile-o-gram from the editor of Helix, this one sent in a "professional" capacity (http://ktempest.livejournal.com/322772.html). When you have behaved in a contemptible fashion, it's beyond contemptible and into pathetic to claim that nobody should have called you on it. (http://www.tobiasbuckell.com/2008/07/09/uncool-man-just-uncool/)
Also, just as a point of order? The question of the right to reprint the contents of letters, especially for purposes of comment or criticism (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/3204121.stm), is an open one. The moral of the story? Don't say it if you don't want it heard.
Really, this kind of nonsense makes me embarrassed for my genre. Which is why I feel the need to comment on this issue, rather than shunning it, the way I tend to shun everything related to Mr. Sanders.
Because I feel it's important to make it plain that not everybody in the SFF community is willing to suffer hearing this kind of blatant racism in silence.
(Original Post) (http://matociquala.livejournal.com/1407107.html)
Also, just as a point of order? The question of the right to reprint the contents of letters, especially for purposes of comment or criticism (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/3204121.stm), is an open one. The moral of the story? Don't say it if you don't want it heard.
Really, this kind of nonsense makes me embarrassed for my genre. Which is why I feel the need to comment on this issue, rather than shunning it, the way I tend to shun everything related to Mr. Sanders.
Because I feel it's important to make it plain that not everybody in the SFF community is willing to suffer hearing this kind of blatant racism in silence.
(Original Post) (http://matociquala.livejournal.com/1407107.html)