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Hugos Refuse To Award Anyone Rather Than Submit To Fans' Votes
An anonymous reader writes: You may remember way back in April there was a bit of a kerfuffle over the nominees for the Hugo Awards being "too conservative" based on a voting campaign organized by a group of science fiction fans who wanted to promote hard science fiction over more recent nominees. This was spun as conservatives "ruining" a "progressive" award. The question was left: would the final voters of the Hugo awards accept these nominees, or just take their ball home and refuse to give out anyway awards at all? The votes are in and we know the answer now: they'd rather just not give out any awards. (Wired has a slightly different slant on the process as well as the outcome of this year's awards.)
What's the straw man? Seems to match the definition.
"99 dead duelists of Dios on the wall. 99 dead duelists of Dios! Take one's ring, pass it around..."
From that same article: "Consider: A woman named Adria Richards Twitter-shames two white dudes for cracking off-color jokes at PyCon, a tech developer conference (and then is fired and fields murder threats)." To say that it's a bit slanted is quite the understatement.
Also you should read the comments for a more balanced view.
Incorrect. Beale (aka Vox Day) isn't in charge of Sad Puppies. Brad R Torgersen is. Vox Day is some bogeyman people keep trotting out to scare little kids and pink haired manchildren on Tumblr.
Here's the thing. The Hugos aren't a "progressive" award -- or rather, they're not supposed to be. They're supposed to be a literary award. That's the entire point of the Sad Puppies and Vox Day's Rabid Puppies -- that a group of people are pushing political litmus tests on this award behind the scenes.
And for all the frothing rage and smug cuntyness that we'll see over the next few days, here's the sad thing: The Sad Puppies were absolutely right.
Wait, I thought I was the only person to bring MRAs into discussions like this one. I'm offended. And since I've copyrighted "whiny pissbaby MRAs", I demand that this discussion be taken down.
Also, Vox Day is one absolutely shitty writer. Imagine if Ayn Rand's African Grey Parrot wrote pedantic sci-fi fan fic and didn't have an editor. If you think I'm joking, go find one of his books (you won't be able to find any at torrent sites, because there is zero demand).
People signed up, people voted and the Sad Puppy/Rabid Puppy slate was soundly defeated by the equivalent of Deez Nuts. Whenever there are elections, the losers always cry, so it's not unexpected to see Breitbart and company crap on the floor in fury.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Yeah because only the people who voted 'no award' are true fans right, RIGHT.
I am sick to death with the progressive war on free speech and association. They don't get to choose who the right or wrong fans are. Fans get to choose if they're fans of the genre.
This 'no award' shit was them having a hissy fit about doubleplusungood fans nominating who they wanted to.
The SJW's who threw a fit with this years hugs are a bunch of fascist twits ready to destroy people for thoughtcrime.
The sad thing is the people labelled "SJWs" in this case is everyone apart from a bunch that has an attitude hard to distinguish from the Taliban.
So it appears that if you think a woman should be allowed to write for a living you are an "SJW"? It's ridiculous. This Vox puppy shit is going way back before 1900.
Social Justice Warriors, deciding who counts based on progressive stack, Social Justice Warriors, if you don't think like us we are on the attack!
We are narcissists and Captain Planeteers, with our heads firmly up our rears, we think the world is black and white, and if you have a vag then you're always right!
SJWs are to activism what Heaven's Gate cult is to your local foodbank, want a perfect example of how SJWs work? Look at the "feminist" who pulled the fire alarm on a MRM meeting and stood outside with a bullhorn screaming "rapists!" at the top of her lungs. They aren't activists, they are thugs who silence all opposing viewpoints by any means necessary, and if that means destroying the Hugo awards if they can't give it to a "Sci-Fi" story about a trans person overcoming oppression or the like? Well they will look at what they have destroyed, call it a victory, and look for something else to wreck.
Welcome to the millennials folks, this is what you get when you take middle class white kids and raise them on a steady diet of self hatred and political correctness, lovely huh?
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.