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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Jul 2021

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Jordan S. Carroll (he/him)

    Yep, there were a subset of science fiction fans in 1930s/1940s who were eugenists & had slogan "fans are slans" (slans being the supermen in A.E. van Vogt novel). One of the oddest manifestations of fascistic thinking in the age of the dictators.https://twitter.com/JordanSCarroll/status/1420110675964170241 …

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    Jordan S. Carroll (he/him) @JordanSCarroll
    Replying to @HeerJeet @zeithistoriker @LAReviewofBooks
    Thanks! Yes, researching the book I've found that fascist ideas were surprisingly common in early SF fandom - there was an abortive "fannationalist" breeding program to produce a master race & the first big US Neo-Nazi party was founded by a SF fan who recruited in the community.
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      2. Kurt Busiek‏Verified account @KurtBusiek 27 Jul 2021
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        Slans, like Marvel’s mutants, were a double-headed oddity. On one hand, they’re symbolically Jews (or were at the start), targets of prejudice under the belief that they were part of a global conspiracy to subjugate humanity — but on the other hand, the global conspiracy was...

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      3. Kurt Busiek‏Verified account @KurtBusiek 27 Jul 2021
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        …real too, it’s just that not all slans/mutants were part of it. Henry Kuttner (and CL Moore) made it explicity in the “Baldy” stories — the “sane” mutants had to fight a secret war against the paranoid mutants, because if the general public ever learned that the paranoid...

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      1. Will (Only Hunter Biden can save us all ) ツ‏ @cw4700 27 Jul 2021
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        Does this in any way compare to the effect that "Gamer-Gate" had on certain right leaning fans and on American politics?

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      1. Outstanding Content‏ @bestmanofonline 27 Jul 2021
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        There's a common but wrong feel that SFF is inherently progressive. I think people would be shocked to find out that during Vietnam there was a letter in Asimov's both in favor of and against the war: both sides had almost an equal amount of supportive SFF writers.

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      1. Amelia Natoli‏ @Vortex_warrior 27 Jul 2021
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        This was discussed in the book Neurotribes from a somewhat different perspective.

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