Another Reminder: They Hate Us

Following both my recent article on how fairness is not what they want, and on the heels of the Schlichter article pointing out they hate us, making the rounds of the puppy-friendly SF community has been the story of yet another SF Writer Jon Del Arroz – kicked out of their circles, threatened by publishers, etc., for wrongthink.

The posting got picked up, and ended up being a top of discussion at the Supreme Dark Lord’s “darkstream” on Periscope, as well as a recent posting at his blog.

From his original post:

But the convention, despite their namesake, has changed so it’s no longer about Bay Area authors. It’s not about Science Fiction either. One only has to go back to their last few years of programming to see what matters to the powers that be who have taken it over: it’s a place where politics transcend everything. You’re just as wont to find panels about “Combating Creationism”, “Climate Change Scenarios”, or “Diversity and Women”, and even on the appropriately themed programming, you’ll see guests like David Gerrold ranting about evil conservatives and hijacking innocuous topics. Looking at the Twitter feed of this year’s guest of honor, 95% of his posts are political attacks, so we can expect more of the same. What’s lacking is energetic talks about fun of Science Fiction. Ironically, when I first came to the scene, organizers saw my name as Hispanic and knowing little about me, placed me on programming that amounted to an hour and a half of complaining about how hard it is for minorities in fiction.

Believe me, I know how hard it is as the target of soft-blackballing like this.

The reason I was disinvited was because it is well known that I support the President of the United States, duly elected and all, and that I’m happy about the way the country is being run. You know, like most normal people are. That’s the only thing that’s changed between then and now.