the_archfiend | Charmers, each and every one (Reply)

A certain amount of backlash was to be expected from the Hugo results at Sasquan, but...

Yeah.

First off, there's the stupidity concerning this nonsense, in which Scott Malcomson thoroughly makes a fool of himself concerning the idiotic idea of a class-action lawsuit because the Puppy slates didn't win en masse.

Now what would actually be even more laughable as a concept?

How about a Gamergate-connected something called Andrew Swallow trying to drag the FBI into it for no real reason?

Add to this Kate Paulk's ever so subtle characterization of anyone opposed to this nonsense as "petty bullying socialists" who would "fit in just as well with the Nazis as they would with their equally murderous Communist cousins" (gee, Kate, hyperbole much? Over losing a bunch of literary awards, for crying out loud?) and you get the sense that the Puppy camp is exclusively made up of one of the following:

1) Professional Internet trolls;

2) People looking to expand their following and book sales by throwing red meat to readers gullible enough to believe their logic-free bullshit in toto;

3) People dumb enough to actually believe their own rhetoric;

4) An unpleasant mixture of "All of the Above".

Seriously, how many more iterations of this garbage do we have to go through before people do what the logical thing is and write these idiots off as not worth addressing, bickering with or even caring about?

It seems to be the thing to do, especially since tuning obnoxious blowhards out whose opinions you couldn't give two shits about in real life is second nature to most adults.

So why not here?