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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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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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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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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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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29/ Shecky likewise finds tweet #5 in this sequence false, or funny, or something.
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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 …This Tweet is unavailable.Show this thread -
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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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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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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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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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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36/ Kathleen Jennings - female, Australian Tamsyn Muir (again) - female, New Zealand Carrie Vaughn (again) - female
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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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38/ gays, who make up 1% of the population, are 1/9 of the Tor authors listed
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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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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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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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