"What," I wondered, "is OSC up to?"

[james_davis_nicoll]

Not every question requires an answer.

Comments

[onyxlynx]

Good grief.

Talk about sealed into the bubble.

[wild_irises]

If I had heeded your text, I would not have clicked.

[bibliofile]

I'm not sure why that question might even come up.... (what OSC is up to)

[bibliofile]

Don't you ever get tired of asking these questions? I mean, you're doing a service for the rest of us, but, well, um, thanks for your sacrifice?

[kithrup.livejournal.com]

Not clicking.

[mme-hardy.livejournal.com]

He is sad because Twitter is being mean to Adam Baldwin. Also, Oscar voters will now be compelled to nominate black people.

[sean o'hara (from livejournal.com)]

Twitter bans assholes -- conservatives fear they're being persecuted.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

It doesn't even "ban assholes". It finally, after years, banned one stalker and serial harasser who used Twitter to send racist threats.

It's very telling that conservative twitter(tm) apparently thinks "racist harasser who sends rape and death threats" is synonymous with "conservative twitter"

[zxhrue.livejournal.com]

"But I can't watch the mistreatment of children. I just can't."

hmm. iirc, mistreatment of children is not an uncommon event in a number of his stories.

[martin-wisse.livejournal.com]

That struck me as well. For somebody whose work (or at least his early work, like e.g. Songbird) regularly not only features child abuse, but _justified_ child abuse, this is an interesting confession to make.

[zibblsnrt.livejournal.com]

Let's be fair: writing mistreatment of children and advocating mistreatment of children isn't watching mistreatment of children.

[hrj.livejournal.com]

Ha. Beat me to noting that technicality.

[vschanoes.livejournal.com]

Well, that may be the one thing I don't bash OSC for. I can't, either, and I wrote a child dead in a pogrom, once.

[mme-hardy.livejournal.com]

There is a difference between "wrote a child dead ... once" and "many of my early works* focus the plot around explicit child abuse, often sexual.

* I stopped reading after the Mormonism-retold-as-American-fantasy books.

[vschanoes.livejournal.com]

That's fair.

[fabrisse.livejournal.com]

Which are the Mormonism retold as fantasy books? I've read the first three Ender books and a few of his short stories. And, yes, I plan to read them. I frequently engage with Mormon elders and managed to convert one to atheism. It helps to understand the worldview.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Are you thinking of the Alvin Maker books?

[mme-hardy.livejournal.com]

The Tales of Alvin Maker. IIRC I lost it when the protagonist turned a black person white.

[fabrisse.livejournal.com]

Dearie, dearie me. And thank you.

[dexfarkin.livejournal.com]

OSC has well traveled into the 'I heard it from a guy on the internet' territory instead of doing his own reading, it seems.

[beefi-xxx.livejournal.com]

(http://info.flagcounter.com/BDyO)

[londonkds.livejournal.com]

I skimmed it and was shocked to notice how horrifically he seems to have misunderstood Fury Road. It is absolutely the reverse of "people discovering that there is something they would die for".

[chris-gerrib.livejournal.com]

What planet is OSC on these days? I have to suspect this sounded better in the original Martian.

[graydon saunders (from livejournal.com)]

Pick an absolutist moral system, and if you're wrong about one thing, you're wrong about everything; the one wrong thing means the system fails.

Card is very tightly ensconced in a vast edifice of wrongness, and one strong structural crack will drop the great majority of his miserable life on him in a crushing mass. So there can not be any questions of right or wrong, only done and not done.

Card'd be happier for the event were it proved survivable, but doubtless thinks it not so now.

[seth ellis (from livejournal.com)]

That cane he's waving is very heavy, and it hurts his forearms, and it's very unfair of the PC inquisition to make him wave it.

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

One thing that takes some getting used to is Mr. Card's unusual habit of expressing occasional phrases in boldface. Is this because they represent links? No, it turns out, the boldface phrases do not represent links.

Currently I am entertaining the hypothesis that the boldfaced passages are intended as aids to skimming for those who can't be bothered to read the entire essay.

You're welcome.

[kaffy_r]

*slow clap*

Well-served, sir.

[mr-mediocre.livejournal.com]

Has he begun to encourage UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this IMPORTANT Information ?

[vatine]

Insufficient count of space potatoes, methinks. Although that was someone else, if my memory serves me right.

[dbdatvic]

A little late finding this, but yes - UN-altered was McElwaine, and space potatoes was Abian (and his young daughter?).

--Dave, glad to see my ancient FAQ is still relevant

[sean o'hara (from livejournal.com)]

Looks like Adam Baldwin is back on Twitter. His week long boycott will surely stand in the annals of freedom with MLK in Selma and Bobby Sands' hunger strike.

[radlein.livejournal.com]

His actual week long boycott was over in less than one day, as he resumed tweeting something like 20 hours later.

[mme-hardy.livejournal.com]

I notice that nobody promoting the "ANITA SARKEESIAN CONTROLS OUR TWEETS?!?!" lie has actually looked at the list of people on the Trust and Safety council.

https://about.twitter.com/safety/council

It's not just one SJW, it's a whole bunch of people who think online abuse is bad, NYAHAHAHAHA!

[sanskritabelt.livejournal.com]

"SJWs always ride single-file so as to conceal their numbers."

[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

It's terribly sad when a wingnut loses the energy that kept him at the cutting edge of lunacy, and he drifts into increasingly more pedestrian forms.

[bruce munro (from livejournal.com)]

I can understand his not having headed to the hills to help spearhead the post June 26th revolution, being 64, but recycling Baldwin's Twitter flounces? That _is_ weak.

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

Notice how he didn't even mention the existence of Carol, a brilliant heavyweight in several acting categories and the film which should absolutely have won Best Adapted Screenplay (and had a good shot at it)?