# but about those who defended and applauded her. She # admits she dehumanized her victims, and so it becomes # clear that her supporters defended this type of abuse # from all angles. Not just harsh language, but # dehumanization. I wonder if they still will defend # what she did as being necessary, or "sometimes over # the line," or whether they will apologize for their role in it.
This is the elephant in the room. She was nommed for a Hugo, not for her fiction writing, but specifically for her hateful invective blog. Her "Requires Hate" persona was championed as 'insightful critique' by very large numbers of people. Looking into it all now, I realize that much of what she's done is almost certainly illegal under UK law, and would get you six months in jail (being upped to 2 years shortly). Surely this makes many of her supporters accessories to the fact?
The SF community is sailing very close to the edge on this one. If something serious had happened (like the obvious case of an actual suicide) and outside forces came into the community to investigate, what do we think would have happened?
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Date: 2014-10-20 05:59 pm (UTC)# admits she dehumanized her victims, and so it becomes
# clear that her supporters defended this type of abuse
# from all angles. Not just harsh language, but
# dehumanization. I wonder if they still will defend
# what she did as being necessary, or "sometimes over
# the line," or whether they will apologize for their role in it.
This is the elephant in the room. She was nommed for a Hugo, not for her fiction writing, but specifically for her hateful invective blog. Her "Requires Hate" persona was championed as 'insightful critique' by very large numbers of people. Looking into it all now, I realize that much of what she's done is almost certainly illegal under UK law, and would get you six months in jail (being upped to 2 years shortly). Surely this makes many of her supporters accessories to the fact?
The SF community is sailing very close to the edge on this one. If something serious had happened (like the obvious case of an actual suicide) and outside forces came into the community to investigate, what do we think would have happened?