It’s all so eerie. Emails have just about stopped. Facebook is a trickle. Even Twitter has slowed dramatically. Come nightfall you don’t see people on the street, the neighbors have almost disappeared, traffic is almost not there, and now almost everyone on social media has vanished. This is the weirdest fucking time I can ever […]
Coronavirus breaking news overload. It’s everywhere all the time. Weeks of it. There’s no escape. The endless tension begins to take a physical toll. You feel lousy, jumpy, taut with nerves. You stop, turn it off, look for diversions, then sit at home staring in the dark.
Even the ridiculous and trivial world of science fiction fandom has split apart politically due to the genuinely evil power of social media. The “alt right” folks are constantly harassing what they call Social Justice Warriors, and the Left is doing exactly what the Right wants them to do, by shouting back, banning people from SF conventions, and so on. The Right stages protests against “pedophilia in science fiction fandom” at the World Science Fiction convention, and stages block voting that puts deliberately idiotic works on the Hugo Award. (They got something called “Space Raptor Butt Invasion” nominated, as an example.) The whole thing makes me ashamed to be a fan.
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Well that is thoroughly depressing. This too shall pass, evcntually.
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Appropriately, the SF fandom news site reports on an alt right rally that happened at the Worldcon just now.
http://file770.com/alt-right-rally-outside-worldcon-76-draws-about-40/
So many bizarre details. The anti-pedophilia thing, blocking the bloodmobile, the huge number of cops that had to come out, the German-looking flag with a weird symbol on it, etc.
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Most of the fans I’ve met were alt right types.
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