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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 The Mighty Buzzard on Monday August 24 2015, @10:41AM
No, they organized to vote No Award because their ideological picks didn't make it onto the ballot in those categories. That's not opinion or guesswork. It was done in the open for a nice change.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 24 2015, @11:10AM
Do you have any evidence for your assertion? Was there a poll of the 5000+ voters that determined why each one voted the way they did? Or are you ascribing motives because you didn't like the results and have your own agenda to push?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday August 24 2015, @11:27AM
I watched it play out, yes. I could likely find dozens of citations pretty quickly but I'm about two minutes from heading out fishing for the morning. Here's one [deirdre.net] that took me about ten seconds to find before I go though.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 24 2015, @07:33PM
And your belief that someone pleading for action actually caused that action is completely unproven and specious, but it does confirm your persecution fantasy so it must be true.
By that same logic, when Vox Day asked the gamergaters to pile in and manipulate the votes, that's what happened too.