Well, one could argue that helping to foster a hostile environment for publishers could be considered a bad idea for someone who hopes to publish work sometime. But when I think 'Helix' and 'unprofessional' the first person I think of is not any of Helix's critics.
Considering the actual blowup was not just Sanders calling the entire world population of muslims all "sheetheads", but was in fact his criticism of a piece of fiction because, despite some actual real, valid even, problems with the story, Sanders is under the impression that muslims do not have any sort of internal self, and refused to published the story because it presented a muslim terrorist as having internal justifications for his actions (though Sanders did take time out to otherwise praise the 2 dimensional and flat characterisation of the muslim, which the original author had based on a strawman version of a republican for that added bit of LOL*facepalm*).
And even that wouldn't have been that big of a problem if Sanders had just stopped trying to kick his own tonsils out in his attempt to defend himself!
It would be nice if, at some point, Sanders acknowledged that he single handedly destroyed the reputation of a new sci-fi magazine, and thus made it impossible for the magazine to continue.
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And even that wouldn't have been that big of a problem if Sanders had just stopped trying to kick his own tonsils out in his attempt to defend himself!
It would be nice if, at some point, Sanders acknowledged that he single handedly destroyed the reputation of a new sci-fi magazine, and thus made it impossible for the magazine to continue.