Kulturkampf

[Potato]

Fallout from the Hugos controversy

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/94229-resignations-censures-follow-in-wake-of-hugo-awards-controversy.html

Two leaders of Worldcon Intellectual Property (WIP), the nonprofit that holds the service marks of the World Science Fiction Society, have reportedly stepped down from their posts following accusations of censorship in the voting process for the 2023 Hugo Awards.

In a January 30 statement, WIP officials announced that director Dave McCarty and board chair Kevin Standlee have both resigned from their positions. McCarty was also censured for "public comments that have led to harm of the goodwill and value of our marks and for actions of the Hugo Administration Committee of the Chengdu Worldcon that he presided over." Standlee was "reprimanded" for "public comments that mistakenly led people to believe that we are not servicing our marks."

[HaughtyFrank]

I found the first book for the bores reading club. 

Some quotes from the book

Shavonda started texting on her phone. “You know what. Come back in a couple hours when I’m done here.” She finished her text. “We need to pop yo white frosh cherry ass with some social justice.”

“Okay. See you then.” Walking back to his dorm, Danny replayed their exchange in his head. Had he said anything stupid? Had he looked as naïve and virginal to her as he had felt? “I like you,” she had said. I like you. “Pop yo white frosh cherry ass.” Cherry ass.

“Hey, y’all,” Shavonda greeted. “This is my new bitch, Danny Ranes. Pronouns, he/him.”

“Did you know that the Bible was written by Jews? Even the New Testament. Funny how Jews keep popping up in positions of power in institutions of oppression. But I won’t go down that rabbit hole right now. The point here is that Western civilization based on the Bible is the hegemonic power that oppresses blacks with systemic racism.

“Awright, so the world is divided up into two kinds of people: oppressor and oppressed. Now, the oppressor is the white man. And the oppressed is everybody else: minorities, LGBTQ+, the disabled, women. To get ahead here at the university, to get special preference and stuff, you gotta be an intersection of more than one marginalized minority. Think of it like a hierarchy or pyramid of status. Only the top is for the people who are the most victimized. The more minority groups you a part of, the higher up on the pyramid you are. So I’m black, which puts me almost on the top. But I’m also a woman, and women are almost as discriminated against as blacks. So that’s like one plus one equals two, right?”

Shavonda gestured with her hand as if it was ascending a pyramid. “Okay, I’m also bisexual, which makes me even higher on the pyramid. Two plus one equals three.” Her hand gestured up one more level.

Danny blurted out, “You’re bisexual?”

“You got a problem with that?”

“No. I just…” He started to have a harder time following her. Images of her kissing a woman assaulted his mind.

“Now, bisexual isn’t as many points as being trans,” Shavonda continued. “Trans is probably the biggest victim of oppression. So, like, if I was a black trans disabled lesbian Muslim, I would be, like, Queen Victim Bitch. Nobody could touch me. I could do whatever the hell I wanted. And if anybody criticized me, I could scorch they ass and get ‘em cancelled. Cause some people mo’ equal than others.

“But back to you. You, my dear Anglo ivory cracka, are on the bottom of the pyramid. White, male, Christian, heteronormative, cisgender. You are the posterchild of oppression. You get all the blame.”


Now it was his turn not to wait for an answer. “Dr. Bathory, I have stated and the professors and students who support this proposal have agreed that Western civilization has many faults we should not ignore. In fact, we should point them out. But the Greeks and the Romans, the Enlightenment thinkers and the Judeo-Christian theologians have shaped the course of history and provided the foundation for the very world we now inhabit. Western civilization brought us individual rights and religious freedom. It has produced liberal democracy and free market capitalism that, contrary to your objection, has brought most of the earth out of life-threatening poverty. It has given us education, knowledge of science, reason, and the rule of law.”

“Dr. Gunness, thank you for your lecture. I just had a question. You mentioned the racism and sexism of Western thinkin’. But in many Middle Eastern countries today, homosexuals are thrown off buildings while women are subjugated to men and forced to cover their identities with burkas. So, wouldn’t y’all call that problematic?”

Dr. Gunness’s smiling face turned serious. “I would not say all Eastern cultures are perfect. But they are nowhere near as oppressive as the West’s misogynistic, homophobic, and transphobic persecution of women, gays and trans folks.”

The student would not let it go. “But if we don’t accept the traditional categories of man and woman, how would we even know what a woman is?”

“A woman is anyone who identifies as woman.”

“But what is that? What is a woman?”

The professor’s face turned from serious to malicious. He placed his large, black trans hand on the petite girl’s shoulder and spoke with hushed venom. “If you are trying to misgender me, little twat, I would be happy to take your far-right-wing, stochastic terrorist, little white ass out back and show you just how a real woman responds to that hate speech.”

I think we found the next nobel price winner (That part about the jews actually sounds pretty realistic)

[benji]

[HaughtyFrank]

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[Polident]

That’s not an uncommon mindset people have. Extend it to electricity to water to Amazon to general public services. Anything, really. They believe this all magically happens. Turning the faucet opens a portal to the water dimension, and it will always be there.

[benji]

Came for the "as long as they're killing everyone else" stayed for the anti-farmer theories.

[Nintex]

[Nintex]

The times be changin'

[Polident]

Imagine Elon wants the Trump episode on there.

[HaughtyFrank]

Came for the "as long as they're killing everyone else" stayed for the anti-farmer theories.

I really wish there was more elaboration on the "as long as they're killing everyone else" because that feels like the tip of an iceberg

[D3RANG3D]

 

[Besticus Maximus]

I see they've met Kyuuji

[benji]

Dark Triad? Say what you really mean.

[benji]

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[benji]

[BIONIC]

working and it's a cool job I can't talk about

[benji]

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[Polident]

Genuinely, what the fuck is San Francisco.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

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Hashtag Aldi???

[NekoFever]

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All those times they blamed the Brits for homophobic laws in the Middle East and Asia, it was Sharia all along

[Besticus Maximus]

English common law predates Islam

[Nintex]

Protests against Genocide Joe in Amsterdam

[benji]

[benji]

[Puffy Fucking Baby]

And so it begins

[Nintex]

Welcome Taylor

[Uncle]

there are SO MANY other individuals, companies, websites, media products etc. that get negatively reported on by a Wikipedia Approved™ news site which is then forever used to justify inaccurate or biased information

you go to the talk page and it's just filled with countless people saying "this is incorrect, here are sources that confirm it, can we fix this?" with jannies saying "as per rule 843-A paragraph 3, you just performed original research which means we can't trust your source, which (as established in notice 801-C) is to be considered biased and unusable for citation anyway"
 

and then the broader internet including google and microsoft promote and cite the wikipedia page as truth

it's equal parts fucking pathetic and insidious




wikipedia's army of fat no-life mods always say shit like "we're not concerned with recording the truth, but what can be restated via citation"

[HaughtyFrank]

Born October 21, c. 1984 (age 36–39)[a]

Never not funny

[benji]

[Besticus Maximus]

I enjoyed the fella whinging about women not finding being pious a turn on