Comments on: “SJW zealots proved their commitment to tolerance, openness and variety by vowing not to read a work found on [an opposing] slate under any circumstances.”

By: D.K. Williams

D.K. Williams — Tue, 25 Aug 2015 05:35:55 +0000

I scored a minor victory getting a textbook author to take out an overly political comment, but a lot of SJ stuff remained.

By: hondo

hondo — Mon, 24 Aug 2015 20:14:14 +0000

The Hugo piece is nice – not covered outside that niche community. The SJWs are everywhere! The amazing thing is most are actually science-illiterate, and proud of it.

By: Robert Zimmerman

Robert Zimmerman — Mon, 24 Aug 2015 17:44:27 +0000

In reply to wodun.

“Also, this new captcha system sucks. Its like playing where’s waldo for 10 minutes just to post a comment.”

Can you tell me what has changed, and what the problem is?

By: wodun

wodun — Mon, 24 Aug 2015 17:01:08 +0000

The hysteria over this has been rather depressing. The sadpuppies people said they didn’t like the award going to people based on politics and wanted good writing to be the standard regardless of the author’s skin color or political identity. While keeping this in mind, they were still able to nominate a slate of ethnically and ideologically diverse works.

In response, the SJW’s said they were all racists and hate women. The SJW never bothered to even attempt to understand what the sadpuppy people were saying. Instead, they just hurled accusations of racism like leftists do about everything else.

In the end, the SJW just proved the point of the sadpuppies, that Hugo voters were putting ideology in front of art.

Also, this new captcha system sucks. Its like playing where’s waldo for 10 minutes just to post a comment.

By: pzatchok

pzatchok — Mon, 24 Aug 2015 01:34:37 +0000

Oh I noticed a change in SF writing between the old and the new.

The increase of female writers. Writing female centrist novels.

The massive increase of homosexual characters.

The HUGE lack of religion in SF stories. After 4 or 5 thousand years of religion do you really think mankind will just give it all up when he steps out to the stars? I don’t, and can see no reason they should.

The huge increase of the new eco philosophy’s being pushed in books with no real scientific basis to support anything like it.

The constant industry is bad philosophy all the time forgetting everything industry brings us. Including cheap spaceflight.

Why are we always leaving the Earth because the environment has been destroyed by mankind or overpopulation?
Why couldn’t it be because of religious persecution, or just simply to expand man kinds foot print? Or even for the scary reason of corporate profit.

The lefties are not the ones who will be going to space.
They are not the risk taking, profit hunting, freedom loving folks who will clamor for a new planet to live on and make their own.

I quit using the HUGO awards as a reason to buy a book years ago.