Not a Penny for Tribute

Part of an ongoing conversation. A reader with the draconian name of Takashi Kurita has some comments in the form of questions about the call to prayer and fasting I wrote here: http://www.scifiwright.com/2014/05/wiscon-38-guest-of-honor-speech/

Hmm. So, how is this an example of why you quit the SWFA, again? Everything shown here is about Mr. Beale and how he was (rightly) ejected from the organization for using it’s official publication channels improperly.

Nothing you talked about in this post has anything to do with you. I also recall no “apoplectic rage” from any Sci-Fi authors that I follow, regarding your leaving the organization. I’m venture to say that hardly anyone even noticed that you quit.

Are you saying that the entire reason for your leaving was on behalf of him? You left in protest, in other words? Since you didn’t even participate in the organization anyway, it’s not much of a protest at all.

 

Just on the slim chance that your questions are honestly meant rather than rhetorical, allow me to answer them:

1. This speech is a prime example of unprofessional public demeanor, because it subordinates the craft of writing to the political crusade of political correctness; and under Mr Scalzi’s leadership such unprofessionalism was encouraged rather than discouraged.

The undisguised bigotry and hatred in this speech is shocking; the vulgarity is merely icing on the cowpaddy.

I am not claiming SFWA wrote this speech or endorsed it. I am claiming this is an example of the philosophy of political correctness, which is a philosophy of breathtakingly shameless antichristian antimale anticaucasian zealotry, which now animates enough of the science fiction community to have infected SFWA, which has both unofficially and officially endorsed it.

At that point, they are no longer an organization which serves the purposes, primarily professional, for which I joined and for whose sake I paid dues.

2. Your comment that this speech somehow serves as evidence that the expulsion of Mr. Beale is gratuitous. In logic, a gratuitous assertion can be gratuitously denied. It is also irrelevant.

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