And then I thought, what the hell

If you're tired of LJ drama, RUN AWAY NOW.

I figured that since it's become fairly obvious that Patrick Nielson Hayden, aka pnh, is not going to unscreen the comments I posted at his blog yesterday in regards to the whole cultural appropriation failboating thing, I'd repost 'em here.

( Cut for the sane among you, and I do apologize for the fact that I just can't seem to let this go )

Edited to add: If you're still following this, I recommend that you check out rydra_wong's latest linkspam (special "OH JOHN RINGO NO" edition). If not, seriously, all you need to know is that some of the biggish names in SFF publishing are making asshats of themselves. Again. And now I'm off to make tea. I need tea.

ETA2: I just realized that some of the concepts in the first above-cited comment were almost certainly appropriated from zvi_likes_tv's post here. At this point I think a lot of different arguments are percolating into my subconscious and popping out in various places, but I didn't mean to take your words and repeat them as my own.

ETA3: As of this typing, pnh, medievalist and mac_stone have ALL taken down their journals. (Well, in the last case, taken down all content and expressed intent to go read-only.) I've basically gotten past the WTF? point to where all I can do is laugh. I thought I'd seen some spectacular hissy fits in comics fandom, but this takes the cake.

And then I thought, what the hell

If you're tired of LJ drama, RUN AWAY NOW.

I figured that since it's become fairly obvious that Patrick Nielson Hayden, aka pnh, is not going to unscreen the comments I posted at his blog yesterday in regards to the whole cultural appropriation failboating thing, I'd repost 'em here.

( Cut for the sane among you, and I do apologize for the fact that I just can't seem to let this go )

Edited to add: If you're still following this, I recommend that you check out rydra_wong's latest linkspam (special "OH JOHN RINGO NO" edition). If not, seriously, all you need to know is that some of the biggish names in SFF publishing are making asshats of themselves. Again. And now I'm off to make tea. I need tea.

ETA2: I just realized that some of the concepts in the first above-cited comment were almost certainly appropriated from zvi_likes_tv's post here. At this point I think a lot of different arguments are percolating into my subconscious and popping out in various places, but I didn't mean to take your words and repeat them as my own.

ETA3: As of this typing, pnh, medievalist and mac_stone have ALL taken down their journals. (Well, in the last case, taken down all content and expressed intent to go read-only.) I've basically gotten past the WTF? point to where all I can do is laugh. I thought I'd seen some spectacular hissy fits in comics fandom, but this takes the cake.