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Heritage Foundation recapitulates racist arguments made about European immigrants a century ago

So, does the Heritage Foundation give its members white sheets as part of the membership package or are they expected to go out and buy them on their own dime?
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The Inevitable Triumph of Conservativism the TFR way!

It would be interesting to see how this model stands up to data like the acceptability of same-sex marriage considered wrt time.

(This is (Removed until I can double check on fb) fault for replying to this author on FB where I could see it)
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Sure is a huge slant towards women and the non white male. If we don’t start counteracting all the relentless one sided articles soon. Then SF is going to look a lot like the Romance Genre. And the funny thing is there wasn’t even a fight.


And now for no reason at all, a Malvina Reynolds song:

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Look, stereotypes are a tool of my trade. You have to round out your world with stereotypes or EVERY pulp SF would be the size of War and Peace and about as interesting.
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Theo "Vox Day" Beale, having previously asserted such interesting things as

Catherine Asaro’s The Quantum Rose, which won the Best Novel award in 2002, is perhaps the most egregious example; Asaro was the SFWA President at the time,


when according to wikipedia she did not become President until 2003, shifts his cloud-shouting over to his Vox Day blog, which btw is going to make keeping a chinese wall between his Vox Day persona and secret identity as Theodore Beale pretty hard, reveals that he has not in fact read at least one of the books whose victory he denounces and then gets to what I assume was the whole point of the affair, launching his pre-doomed campaign to run for SFWA President.

Linking is not advocacy.

My gut feeling here is that once he loses, the next logical move is to set up an ideologically untainted rival to SFWA, perhaps one untainted by the oh so many groups of whom he disapproves.
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An interesting article, in which I learn there are still people wedded to the We'll All Be Poor Future, the Population Bomb Future (Mote in Gods Eye variation), Foreigners are a Simple, Rustic People model and the Working Class People are Farmers model.

The 'em' in the comments stands for emulated minds.

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