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[drunkoffthestars]

I was procrastinating by reading some links to things that have been happening on the internet recently, and that was such a bad plan! First I read some horrifically offensive stuff from the racewank that just went down in the scifi circle. After that, I went to catch up on BoingBoing, where one of their 'guest bloggers' who has already posted some pretty bad stuff decided to make a series of posts about how he doesn't think global warming is happening, prompting a rebuttal by one of the founders. Between all those posts and their comments, I think I've read enough stupidity to last me for YEARS.

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[zillahseye.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm pretty much in the "holy shit I can't like anybody or read anything" phase myself. I mean. Published authors, HOW SO IGNORANT?

[clare-san.livejournal.com]

Quite frankly, I've never been so happy that I buy maybe 5 books a year and most of those are second hand. My favorite part was the bit where some dude who is apparently a Big Deal was conflating a boycott of Tor with not supporting authors of color. LOGICAL FALLACY, UR DOIN IT RITE.

It is really eye-opening, and makes me beyond thankful that I've been able to listen in on the discussions that have gone down in the past. Fandom: always teaching, apparently. For about 5 seconds, I really wanted to link a few people to that one post that was something like "How to shut down a conversation about race in 5 easy steps" or something.

The amount of WRONG ON THE INTERNET was completely overwhelming.