Today in what in the unacceptable fuck: this is Locus Magazine’s idea of an April Fools Day joke. The article was gone in under an hour, though it was here.
No.
Just.
No.
Do I even have to explain how wrong this is?
Transcript below the cut.
Reblogging this version as it contains a transcript.
context: the author is fan of note Lawrence Person (cite, cite), who is apparently still real mad about the Elizabeth Moon thing literally two Wiscons ago. (**tl:dr;** she was a guest author, wrote something Islamophobic, got disinvited after much kerfuffle.)
Locus has apologized, explaining that they did not see it before it went up and they had the web editor pull it ASAP.
gee, I wonder why the old-school sf scene is so white and male
Lawrence Person has posted a response, claiming authorship and of course attacking “dour, humousless avatars of political correctness” with the usual whiny white male entitlement.
this is not a “joke” this is some HOT garbage islamophobia.
Man fuck wizcon. They are officially off my “WILL EVER GO TO” list. No.
To be clear, Wiscon has nothing to do with this. It was written by a critic of Wiscon.
Wonder if there’s any way to support Wiscon.