Never quite sure when it’s better not to feed the troll, and when the situation is so bad it really needs sunlight and Dettol. Even by the standard of racist, sexist trolls in the bottom half of the internet, Vox Day (or by his real name, Theodore Beale) is a despicable piece of slime. The link doesn’t go to his own site (I’m not giving him traffic), but to that of Amal El-Mohtar, who is campaigning to have him expelled from Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, and contains screenshots of Beale’s offensive screeds.
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As I wrote in a letter to a friend, “So much for SF being the literature of the progressive-minded.” Not that there are no such people in SF-dom, but the Theodore Beales and Orson Scott Cards out there leave a foul enough taste in the mouth to make us forget that not everyone is like them.
Sadly true, there has always been an ugly right-wing streak in American SF.
While OSC is the only major-league author I know of who takes a public position as an extreme bigot (I won’t dignify Beale with any suggestion that he’s a significant author), I bet there are a few other ‘names’ who say similar things in private.
This 2005 post on Patrick Neilsen-Hayden’s blog is illuminating. It shows not only that Vox Day/Theodore Beale has been peddling this offensively racist and sexist garbage for a long, long time, but the SFWA had it’s head up it’s arse when it comes to not getting why this vile individual might be problematic.