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Two-time Prometheus award-winning hard science fiction author. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005JPPMS6  Learn how to homestead https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093BC3K1T 

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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 2 Aug 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Jess Nevins

      13/ This is objectively a red herring. No one, to a good approximation, is arguing that "the history of SF is the history of white male writers". We had Alice Bradley Sheldon, Octavia Butler, H M Hoover, Madeleine L'Engle, H M Hoover, Anne McCaffrey, Thttps://twitter.com/jessnevins/status/1289960398142222337 …

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      Jess Nevins @jessnevins
      The history of the genre isn't the story of white male writers. It never was. It's the history of all of us.
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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 2 Aug 2020

      14/ So OP is making up a God-damned lie out of whole cloth, putting it in the mouths of people who never said it, and then - bravely, so bravely! - disagreeing with a thing that no one said.

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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 2 Aug 2020

      15/ Also, OP is pulling the classic maneuver - not addressing the actual point that someone is making (e.g. "I dislike Obama's expansion of executive power, that whole 'pen and phone' thing"), replacing it with a fake point ("they hate blacks") and using that to dodge the point

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    4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 2 Aug 2020

      16/ Since OP never cites any specific quote in his thread (always a good technique when you're witch hunting - "the witches are out there, trust me - don't listen to their side of the story!") we can't be sure exactly what he's REALLY complaining about. ...but I have a hunch.

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    5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 2 Aug 2020

      17/ and it's what I was alluding to earlier: people (like me) who complain that the current SF market is narrow, full of bad writers, and ignorant of the history of the genre. Wow, feminist SF! ...but we've had that for 50 years. SF that grapples w trans issues! Had that too

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    6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 2 Aug 2020

      18/ SF that considers things from the perspectives of racial minorities! Yep, had that. SF that considers overbearing capitalism. Yep, yep, yep.

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    7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 2 Aug 2020

      19/ Ignorance of the history of the art form doesn't enable the "new voices" to throw off the old constraints - it just makes them boring, monomaniacal, and redundant. We explored this stuff for the first time 60+ years ago. It's time to JOIN that conversation, not restart it

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    8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 2 Aug 2020

      20/ I suppose me telling youngsters, women, BIPOC and all the rest "read your God-damned history and learn what the field is all about" is man splaining? Well, if you want something 'splained, get a man who's conversant w the topic to do it. You're welcome.

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    9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Aug 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Aliette de Bodard

      21/ Same nonsense going on in this thread (h/t @drethelin ) https://twitter.com/aliettedb/status/1289656583220129792 … Science fiction publishing and fandom was welcoming to women, hispanics, blacks, Asians, gays, drug users, and all sorts of other outsiders HALF A CENTURY AGO. This is invented nonsense.

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      Aliette de Bodard @aliettedb
      It's saying that the dead (in this case, the actively harmful dead, the ones who shaped SFF so that people like me stayed away) are worth more than the living. Worth more than us. Because we have the wrong skin colour, the wrong gender, etc. etc.
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    10. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Aug 2020

      22/ OP, and her entire generation, are invested in this narrative that they've FINALLY overthrown the exclusionary old boys network that tried so hard to keep them out. ...but it's lies and nonsense. It never happened They cherry pick a few facts, like many authors were white

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Aug 2020

      23/ ...because OF COURSE THEY WERE, in a country that was mostly white. And most authors were male, because OF COURSE THEY WERE, in a genre descended from two-fisted-pulps and popular science magazines. And they take these facts and then assume "obviously there was exclusion".

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        2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Aug 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Aliette de Bodard

          24/ Notice the jujitsu here: if you respect old authors for writing great stuff (Lovecraft) or old editors for building enthusiasm (Campbell) then you are RACIST and are driving people away. Your appreciation of the greats is an ACT OF VIOLENCE.https://twitter.com/aliettedb/status/1289655684263444482 …

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          Aliette de Bodard @aliettedb
          I guess what I'm trying to say is that all this stuff? The lionising of Campbell, of Lovecraft? It's just part and parcel of a culture of micro aggressions, and it's exhausting, and it's *driving people away*.
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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Aug 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Aliette de Bodard

          25/ More of the jujitsu here: she's turned this into an either / or, fallacy of the excluded middle. She declares, with zero evidence, that appreciating the dead means that you hate the living / current wave of SF authors and fans.https://twitter.com/aliettedb/status/1289656583220129792 …

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          Aliette de Bodard @aliettedb
          It's saying that the dead (in this case, the actively harmful dead, the ones who shaped SFF so that people like me stayed away) are worth more than the living. Worth more than us. Because we have the wrong skin colour, the wrong gender, etc. etc.
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        4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Aug 2020

          26/ In fact, these are orthogonal. You can like or dislike the past masters, and you can like or dislike the current generation. (In fact, I like the past masters and dislike the current authors, but the connection is not causal; it's two distinct opinions)

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        5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Aug 2020

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          27/ What part of it is false? My assertion that the current gatekeepers of SF are the major publishers of SF, and that they're left of center? Why do you think that that's false? https://twitter.com/shaunduke/status/1290410267394871296 …

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        6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Aug 2020

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          28/ I didn't IGNORE it. I QUOTED it. And then I asked you for clarification, with my two hunches as to what you were talking about. That question still stands. I am honestly curious what part of my tweet (#5, above, in this thread) you think is false https://twitter.com/shaunduke/status/1290411299625676800 …

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        7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Aug 2020

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          29/ Shecky likewise finds tweet #5 in this sequence false, or funny, or something. @SheckyX , would you care to explain what part of tweet #5 you disagree with? https://twitter.com/SheckyX/status/1290411241043886081 …

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        8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Aug 2020

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          30/ Also, kind of curious what @shaunduke means by "that level of dishonesty". I quoted his tweet, which quoted mine. All the material is here, for anyone who wants to read it. Anyway, invite still open @shaunduke - what part of #5 do you disagree w? https://twitter.com/shaunduke/status/1290411299625676800 …

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        9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Aug 2020

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          31/ I agree it's not rocket science. So ... what part of tweet #5 in this sequence do you think is false? That Tor, etc are left of center? Or something else? There were multiple claims in my tweet. https://twitter.com/shaunduke/status/1290412416141066245 …

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        10. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Aug 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Horse

          32/ so many dumb socialists in my mentions today sad ; I enjoy arguing with a better tier of leftisthttps://twitter.com/bojack90s/status/1290413295732699138 …

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          Horse @bojack90s
          This is the single worst tweet of all time. It cannot be topped. https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1290354252200763398 …
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        11. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 Aug 2020

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          33/ https://twitter.com/jacobkesinger/status/1290681317810634753 … not sure why you'd search there let's go to http://Tor.com  new releases >>>

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        12. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 Aug 2020

          34/ https://publishing.tor.com/new-releases/  C. L. Polk - black, female Nino Cipri - trans / nonbinary Nino Cipri (again) - trans / nonbinary K.M. Szpara - queer / trans Eddie Robson - white male (!!!), British Nghi Vo - Vietnamese, female Alex Irvine - white male (!!!)

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        13. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 Aug 2020

          35/ Tamsyn Muir - female, New Zealand Corey J. White - white male (!!!) Australian Martha Wells - female Katharine Duckett - female, queer Jeffrey Ford - white male (!!!) Carrie Vaughn - female Zen Cho - female, Chinese (?) Andrea Hairston - black, female

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        14. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 Aug 2020

          36/ Kathleen Jennings - female, Australian Tamsyn Muir (again) - female, New Zealand Carrie Vaughn (again) - female

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        15. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 Aug 2020

          37/ so in a literary genre that is overwhelmingly white, male, and American, we have 1 white American male ... out of 18 authors trans, who make up 0.01% of the population, make up 1/6 of the authors listed women, who write 25% of the SF overall, are 11/18 Tor authors

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        16. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 Aug 2020

          38/ gays, who make up 1% of the population, are 1/9 of the Tor authors listed

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        17. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 Aug 2020

          39/ It's absolutely clear to anyone remotely familiar with the science fiction genre that Tor is blatantly filtering out submissions from white American men and publishing stuff based on SJW criteria

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        18. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 Aug 2020

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          40/ I don't know what the word "label" means in this context, but when I linked to PUBLISHING DOT TOR DOT COM I was pointing you to new books published by Tor publishing https://twitter.com/jacobkesinger/status/1290690362810523655 …

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        19. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 Aug 2020

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          41/ "Let those flatter who fear, it is not an American art" - Thomas Jefferson https://twitter.com/bc_nbc/status/1290690691362824192 …

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