Pack awards with your cronies and coreligionists, force out dissenters, nominate a bunch of boutique, agenda-driven, crap fiction, elevate the new nominees to the true face of the industry, let them throw fits and demand further concessions and purification, repeat.
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You can guess what happened next. Con immediately grovelled abjectly but not abjectly *enough* and everybody else with beef threw it in as evidence that they're run by alt-right Nazis, and every other tweet is using the same script
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"As an _insert_identity_ I have wanted nothing more all my life than to go to my first _insert_convention_ but now I see they are the devil incarnate and want us _insert_identity_ in concentration camps and I demand an apology and a pony"
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This whole feigned inability to distinguish between mistakes, rudeness and genocide is getting fucking tedious.
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Taleb had an essay circulating recently about how small intolerant minorities could dominate community politics by fixating on trivial issues and raising hell about them. I think I understand the argument a lot better now.
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Link? Curious.
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. Banned in Sweden. SubGenius, Zhuangist, white-hat troll. Defrocked mathematician. Brain problems.