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Boycott Harry Turtledove: He is Trump hating anti-Conservative liberal loon Democrat

Posted on 02/25/2021 7:46:31 AM PST by Swarthy Greek Immigrant

I ran across Harry Turtledove's Twitter feed and it turns out he is an Trump hating super liberal loon. He just accused Sen Josh Hawley of being a Nazi and that was the final straw for me.

I am pretty sure most (probably 90%) of his reading audience aka customers tend to be men who fall on the right of the political spectrum.

Stop making this liberal and other liberal scum any money. So if I may humbly ask for a boycott against Harry Turtledove. I won't post links to his Twitter and I am pretty sure it is his account but he also wrote an anti Trump book - so even if it was not his Twitter that is good enough for me to boycott him for life and I hope most if not all of you agree.


TOPICS: Books/Literature; History; Hobbies
KEYWORDS: books; cpac; fiction; harryturtledove; joshhawley; literature; sciencefiction; turtledove; twitter; wheresyourblog
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To: Swarthy Greek Immigrant

I liked his books until I met him at a 2002 book signing and found him to be an ugly, pompous jerk. That he turns out to be the exact type of loud-mouthed, secular Jewish collectivist that has done so much damage to American art and literature over the past several decades comes as no surprise.


21 posted on 02/25/2021 8:03:27 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: Beernoser

I only post this here so I can be on record Turtledove is our enemy not just a standard liberal author.


22 posted on 02/25/2021 8:04:49 AM PST by Swarthy Greek Immigrant
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To: Swarthy Greek Immigrant

Tried to read on his book about 20+ years ago.

First chapter was a bore, skipped to middle and it didn’t get any better.

Had forgotten this dude even existed until I read recent posts about him.


23 posted on 02/25/2021 8:05:30 AM PST by Manuel OKelley
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To: Swarthy Greek Immigrant

I never read his book about the South being given automatic weapons to win the Civil War because it sounded like stupid BS. I’m not surprised to learn that he’s an idiot.


24 posted on 02/25/2021 8:06:50 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: Mr. Jeeves

It is like Turtrledive resents conservatives because they make up most of his audience and he just targeted them to make money not because he cares about history.


25 posted on 02/25/2021 8:07:51 AM PST by Swarthy Greek Immigrant
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To: DesertRhino
Not sure if it was him but there was this book I saw once and never got. Now I cannot even find a title. It was an alternative history that places a Special Forces A team in with the defenders of the Alamo.

It was probably Remember the Alamo! by Kevin Randle (sine loco: Hall, 1998). You can get it at the American Book Exchange for about $7.00.

26 posted on 02/25/2021 8:10:58 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Swarthy Greek Immigrant

I used to read him but when he started padding out the lizard alien invasion series with boring repetitive novels I knew he was just another hack. Eff him.


27 posted on 02/25/2021 8:12:25 AM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL)
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To: Swarthy Greek Immigrant

His writing has been shit for ages anyway.


28 posted on 02/25/2021 8:12:36 AM PST by TarasBulbous
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To: Swarthy Greek Immigrant

I remember reading a book or two but have forgotten what they were about.


29 posted on 02/25/2021 8:13:38 AM PST by SkyDancer (Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

I’m with you. If I start boycotting every writer whose personal politics I don’t like, I’ll miss out on a lot of good stories. I’ve read and enjoyed most of Harry Turtledove’s books.

He wrote a short piece once that I’d like to find again. It was just a page or two, written as if the New York Times were reporting on Pearl Harbor and the beginning of U.S. involvement in WWII. The reporting was so negative and defeatist that the U.S. ended up surrendering, as I recall. A lot of people here would see that piece as anti-American, no doubt, but I took it as a condemnation of the NYT.


30 posted on 02/25/2021 8:21:41 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Swarthy Greek Immigrant

Never heard of him


31 posted on 02/25/2021 8:22:34 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Swarthy Greek Immigrant
To each his own but do you know if that is even a real person? Somebody could just be using his name. Lot's of bots playing mind games on that site. Plus there is good reason these days to not use your real name

Don't get me wrong, I love a good debate but you don't get that on Twitter. All you get are insult contests and to see who can post the most "devastating" meme. I was last there in 2019. I got banned for saying "Transgenderism is a mental disorder" My point was that when your mind tells you one thing but your body tells you another, then yes you are going to have mental/emotional issues. They gave me 24 hours to take down my tweet or I would be permanently suspended. I told them to piss up a rope and haven't been back in over 2 years nor will I go back

There is no forum left to have an open honest debate with a sincere honest liberal with whom you happen to disagree. Hasn't been for decades. The "internet consultants" and other assorted trolls saw to that.

32 posted on 02/25/2021 8:28:05 AM PST by Sir_Humphrey (Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people -Socrates)
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To: Swarthy Greek Immigrant

I read Guns of The South, and also enjoyed his Worldwar/Colonization series (1994-2004), where in the middle of WWII, reptilian aliens invade. Not very bright aliens, but technologically advanced.


33 posted on 02/25/2021 8:28:42 AM PST by PLMerite
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To: Fiji Hill

I’m gonna have to read that one!


34 posted on 02/25/2021 8:32:04 AM PST by magyars4 (To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men!)
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To: Swarthy Greek Immigrant

Boycott on! Oh, wait I guess I was already boycotting him because I’ve never heard of him or care about any of these social media mouth breathing asshats. One reason is I don’t walk around all day with my “device” in my hand worshiping at the alter of social media, as a matter of fact I don’t even have a “device”. So, Boycott on!


35 posted on 02/25/2021 8:34:24 AM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged )
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To: Swarthy Greek Immigrant

I liked Guns Of The South and honestly thought he’d died. I’ve got A lot of other good stuff to read so I doubt I’ll bother digging into his writings in the near future. I’ve noticed that several of my fav sci-fi authors all seems to be left leaning loons but damn if they still can’t write a good story, I buy their books used or half priced (never new), ignore the political leanings
And enjoy the stories.


36 posted on 02/25/2021 8:37:13 AM PST by The Louiswu (....................................................................................................)
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To: Swarthy Greek Immigrant

That Turtledove is left leaning is not a surprise.

Neither is the fact he is apparently a jerk in real life.

That doesn’t mean he’s not a good writer. I gave up on World War and never started the alternate WWI series.

But the “Agent of Byzantium” series, the Videssos Cycle and it’s sequels, and a lot of his short stories (”The Road Not Taken”, “The Last Article”, and “Hindsight” for example) are especially good.

With the exception of Marion Zimmer Bradley* I generally do not boycott authors over their non-literary activities.

*Child Sexual Abuse is a different matter...


37 posted on 02/25/2021 8:37:21 AM PST by GreenLanternCorps (Hi! I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts! (TM) Atsk about franchise opportunities in your area.)
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To: Swarthy Greek Immigrant

Sorry, never heard of him.


38 posted on 02/25/2021 8:40:04 AM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: Swarthy Greek Immigrant

Bleh. Gave up on him years ago anyway - his books are all repetitive dreck. I somehow doubt he was clever enough to write a “alternate history book generator”, but after a couple, it sure felt that way.


39 posted on 02/25/2021 8:55:06 AM PST by Kommodor (Solzhenitsyn was an optimist...)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin
There was a recent thread on FR about a bunch of leftist SF authors leaping to the defense of conservative-leaning Baen Books and its editor. Here is is:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3936368/posts

I think they had a point. As long as Turtledove's views don't infest his writing, I'm not boycotting.

40 posted on 02/25/2021 8:57:38 AM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
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