Saladin Ahmed @saladinahmed
Not a single one of the TWENTY actors/actresses nominated for Oscars in 2015 is a person of color. Not one. That’s called white supremacy.
Vox Day @voxday
Actually, white supremacy is what prevents people like Saladin Ahmed from throwing gays off rooftops.
Mr. Ahmed, in case you were unaware, is Pink SF’s token Mahometan. He was an affirmative action nominee for the Hugo, Nebula, Crawford, Gemmell, and British Fantasy awards in 2013 for a mediocre debut novel called Throne of the Crescent Moon. It’s rather amusing to see him alternate SJW poses with statements like his post-Hebdo assault on free speech in the New York Times.
The question for writers and artists, then, is not whether we ought to limit ourselves, but how we already limit ourselves. In a field dominated by privileged voices, it’s not enough to say “Mock everyone!” In an unequal world, satire that mocks everyone equally ends up serving the powerful. And in the context of brutal inequality, it is worth at least asking what preexisting injuries we are adding our insults to. The belief that satire is a courageous art beholden to no one is intoxicating. But satire might be better served by an honest reckoning of whose voices we hear and don’t hear, of who we mock and who we don’t, and why.
‘Twas also more than a little amusing to see how quick the pinkshirts were to rush in and assure Mr. Ahmed THEY STILL CONSIDER HIM TO BE ONE OF THEM. They’ve learned absolutely nothing from the Charlie Hebdo massacres. So I suspect it’s going to be even more amusing to watch as they gradually turn on him over the next decade.
D Franklin @D_Libris
Or hollow laughter at the hypocritical, mendacious evil of VD, & hugs for Saladin who has to put up with that shitCharlie Stross @cstross
congratulations! You’ve drawn the ire of SF’s very worst self-defeating loser. You level up!Haralambi Markov @HaralambiMarkov
That’s not cute. That’s just insulting. Oh My Everything.Sean @Sea_Bunker
I musta missed the part where you (SA) are a violent homophobe. Vox, on the other hand…Jim C. Hines @jimchines
That … but … huh?Always Randy @RandyTheRandom
What is preventing me from throwing White Supremacist Assholes from rooftops, though?Charlie Stross @cstross
if I followed VD’s totalising logic, gay unitarians would be as dangerous to Jews as the Aryan Nations.BenjanunSriduangkaew @bees_ja
Holy shit. Sorry he’s using queer people to concern-troll you, wow.Matt Forbeck @mforbeck
Ah, what a jackass. I’d stay “stunning jackass” but we’ve come to expect it by now.Bootleg Girl @BootlegGirl
Seriously though I “love” how atheist libertarians who are massive bigots project their own desires onto MuslimsJim C. Hines @jimchines
VD stretching the truth? I am shocked. Shocked, I say!Rae Carson @raecarson 31m31 minutes ago
Ugh, Saladin, I’m so sorry you have to deal with shitbags like him.Nightjar UrsulaV @UrsulaV
Its’s like he’s got a bigot magnetic poetry kit and arranges these on his fridge.Fledgist @Fledgist
One should be measured by the enemies one attracts.Charlie Stross @cstross
Yes, but going by VD is like measuring yourself against the stench of the dog turd you just stepped in.
One subtle irony that will probably escape the average reader is the way Benjanun Sriduangkaew is attempting to worm her way back into the warren here. She was quasi-excommunicated from the Pink SF community two months ago when her alternate identity was exposed as being the notorious Requires Only That You Hate.
UPDATE: See, the pinkshirts are really all about the tolerance. And free speech.
Really Tired Wanker @benfromcanada
@saladinahmed god damn these people