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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…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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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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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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This was discussed in the book Neurotribes from a somewhat different perspective.
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