Laying my snowflakes on the table

The first and only worldcon I’ve been to was in Spokane, in 2015. There was a controversy at the con involving a group called the Sad Puppies, whose argument was that SFF had been taken over by an affirmative action mentality. The Sad Puppies (and their littermates the Rabid Puppies) lost the day, but some of the division apparently remains.

I never thought of any of this as in any way involving me, aside from as an individual Hugo voter. Recently, though, I’ve found that reference to some o...