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So, last night the SJW types over at the Hugo awards decided they'd rather burn the whole thing to the ground than give out an award based on what the readers like instead of social justice reasons:
The members of the World Science Fiction Society rejected the slate of finalists in five categories, giving No Award in Best Novella, Short Story, Related Work, Editor Short Form, and Editor Long Form. This equals the total number of times that WSFS members have presented No Award in the entire history of the Hugo Awards, most recently in 1977.
Here are a few of the people on the #SadPuppies slate that should be quite surprised to learn that they were denied a chance at an award for being white males when they wake up this morning: Rajnar Vajra, Larry Correia, Annie Bellet, Kary English, Toni Weisskopf, Ann Sowards, Megan Gray, Sheila Gilbert, Jennifer Brozek, Cedar Sanderson, and Amanda Green.
takyon: Here are in-depth explanations of the Hugo Awards controversy.
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(Score: 2) by NoMaster on Monday August 24 2015, @07:51AM
As it should be.
Of course, that argument starts to fall apart a bit when you realise the one of folks worried about the standing of "hard SF" nominated a collection of their own tweets for a Hugo...
Live free or fuck off and take your naïve Libertarian fantasies with you...
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 24 2015, @08:32AM
> one of folks worried about the standing of "hard SF" nominated a collection of their own tweets for a Hugo...
Come on, you gotta give us more than that. Do you know how useless it is to google for the word "tweets?"
No chance in hell of figuring out who or what you are talking about.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 24 2015, @08:52AM
Why does person A doing something dumb and self serving in relation to a medium invalidate the definition of the medium supplied by person B?