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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2014-05-07 01:05 pm

People email me these links

The Intercollegiate Review seems very special, as this John C. Wright essay on Heinlein and the scourge of political correctness demonstrates. Note that when Wright says

Orson Scott Card publicly expressed the mildest imaginable opposition to having judges overrule popular votes defining marriage in the traditional way.
he is probaly referring to this essay, in which OSC opines
Because when government is the enemy of marriage, then the people who are actually creating successful marriages have no choice but to change governments, by whatever means is made possible or necessary.

[identity profile] abigail-n.livejournal.com 2014-05-08 05:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I didn't exactly inquire further, but my guess would be that this is a particularly tinhatted interpretation of Jemisin's WFC (?) speech about not feeling comfortable in fandom as a PoC.

[identity profile] tandw.livejournal.com 2014-05-08 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I suspect somehow that Wright or Beale might feel a tad uncomfortable in a group made up almost entirely of PoC. Would they consider that evidence that they are racist?