Yeah, I know all that. The SF/F community is full of self-proclaimed assholes, some beloved, some loathed. I don't pretend to understand it. Ultimately, though, I was explaining that I don't form opinions based on who says what but rather on what is being said. If past bad actions affects the context of what's being said, sure, take it into consideration. But I see nothing here that would make me think you being a "not terribly nice person" somehow affects calling out refugee50s for his own words.

Lately, as someone who is routinely attacked merely for existing as female, liberal, etc., I've become very, very tired of seeing all this "you should be raped and shot" crap lobbed at people like me, and even more tired of people telling me I'm an asshole for calling it out.

You have no idea how difficult it was for me to not begin my response with, "We're not so different, you and I..."