Comments on: Time for Sunlight and Dettol http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/sf-and-gaming/sf/time-for-sunlight-and-dettol/ The blogs of Tim Hall Fri, 14 Apr 2017 23:35:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.41 By: Tim Hall http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/sf-and-gaming/sf/time-for-sunlight-and-dettol/comment-page-1/#comment-29420 Fri, 14 Jun 2013 20:16:34 +0000 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/?p=7773#comment-29420 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.

]]> By: Tim Hall http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/sf-and-gaming/sf/time-for-sunlight-and-dettol/comment-page-1/#comment-29395 Fri, 14 Jun 2013 07:09:22 +0000 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/?p=7773#comment-29395 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.

]]> By: Serdar http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/sf-and-gaming/sf/time-for-sunlight-and-dettol/comment-page-1/#comment-29392 Fri, 14 Jun 2013 05:06:11 +0000 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/?p=7773#comment-29392 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.

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