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The Hugo Awards: How to Fight Back in the Culture War
The Federalist ^ | April 8, 2015 | Robert Tracinski

Posted on 04/08/2015 6:43:22 AM PDT by Salgak

This is the era in which we are all being drafted in the Culture War. It doesn’t matter if you’re secular or religious, political or apolitical, frat boys or geeks, hipsters or bros. Nobody gets to be neutral or sit on the sidelines, because we’ll all be expected to make our obeisance to the latest politically correct opinion handed down to us by a Twitter mob.

By now, we know the basic ingredients of a typical skirmish in Culture War 4.0. It goes something like this: a) a leftist claque starts loudly pushing the “correct” Culture War position onto b) a field previously considered fun, innocuous, apolitical, purely personal, or recreational, and c) accusing anyone who opposes them of being a racist, sexist, bigot who relies on oppressive “privilege” to push everyone else down, while these claims are d) backed up by a biased press that swallows the line of attack uncritically and repeats it.

Any of that sound familiar? It’s just daily life for anyone on the Right, and it’s slowly becoming daily life for everybody else. Ask Comet Guy.

The innocuous field in which the personal is suddenly discovered to be very political might be fashion, music, toys, sports, or sex, not to mention weddings, flowers, cake-baking, and pizza.

Or video games. Or science fiction.

Which explains the latest, wide new front of the Great Social Justice War: Gamergate and its latest outgrowth, the battle over the Hugo Awards, a prestigious annual fiction award for science fiction and fantasy writers.

(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: correia; culture; culturewar; fantasy; gamergate; hugo; hugoawards; hugos; larrycorreia; pc; politicalcorrectness; pushback; rabidpuppies; racism; racist; sadpuppies; sciencefiction; sff; sjw; worldcon
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Example of a WINNING battle against the Politically-Correct Social Justice Warriors. Or as we call them, CHORFs. . .

Disclosure: I am a Sad Puppies Supporter, and have been since Sad Puppies 1, three years ago. . .

1 posted on 04/08/2015 6:43:22 AM PDT by Salgak
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To: Salgak

If one pinko professor in each state were to disappear every month...


2 posted on 04/08/2015 6:46:16 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

If one pinko professor in each state were to disappear every month...

Only one?


3 posted on 04/08/2015 7:08:00 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Salgak

I’ve been watching this one coming and oh man, it’s going to be fun...


4 posted on 04/08/2015 7:12:43 AM PDT by JenB
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To: Salgak

Well written article with excellent points. Go Sad Puppies!


5 posted on 04/08/2015 7:24:53 AM PDT by Shark24
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To: Salgak
...both Gamergate and Sad Puppies are managing to mobilize people who were previously unengaged with politics, or who come from the center-left but are disillusioned after being hectored by a holier-than-thou claque of super-radicals.

In short, this is the one area where our side is winning the Culture War and making some headway at beating back the left’s politicization of every aspect of life.

The techniques of 'fighting back' against 'those who have problems with elections because they don't know the outcomes' needs to be woven into story lines. Science fiction writers work within that tradition... lead lost culture war troops....

“People always have the kind of government they want. When they want change, they must change it.” ― A.E. van Vogt, The Weapon Shops of Isher

6 posted on 04/08/2015 7:28:07 AM PDT by GOPJ (DHS has the same budget as the USMC and has TWICE their headcount - - freeper gaijin)
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To: Salgak

Yep. I remember one of my English Professors telling the class that “All art must support the revolution”. This was in the 1970s in Middle America. I asked him about Bach and Shakespeare. He told me “They weren’t artists”.


7 posted on 04/08/2015 7:30:49 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: blueunicorn6

Or Pablo Picasso etc... good grief


8 posted on 04/08/2015 7:32:39 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: blueunicorn6

So according to that professor all art must resemble the dreck from Stalinist Russia or the Cultural Devolution?


9 posted on 04/08/2015 8:16:07 AM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: Salgak

The left is insane as always


10 posted on 04/08/2015 8:27:16 AM PDT by GeronL (CLEARLY CRUZ 2016)
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To: Salgak

Liberals ruin everything. Instead of rewarding those considered to be the best they give empty awards to those that did not deserve them.


11 posted on 04/08/2015 8:54:46 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: minnesota_bound

Easiest way to solve this is to ignore them. Anything cultural that can go national, keep at the local level. That’s where we are strongest. We have a better grassroots.


12 posted on 04/08/2015 8:57:14 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Islam is the military wing of the Communist party.)
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To: Salgak

I’m glad to see John C. Wright get some nominations. A very good writer indeed and unafraid to say what almost every public type person is afraid to say in today’s cultural climate. His blog is great, interesting stuff ranging from science, sci-fi and politics and morality.

http://www.scifiwright.com/2015/04/

Freegards


13 posted on 04/08/2015 9:00:55 AM PDT by Ransomed
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To: HiTech RedNeck

“When I am alone with myself, I have not the courage to think of myself as an artist in the great sense of the term. Giotto, Titan, Rembrandt and Goya were great painters.

I am only a public entertainer who has understood his times and has exhausted, as best he could, the imbecility, the vanity, the cupidity of his contemporaries. Mine is a bitter confession, more painful than it may appear, but it has the merit of being sincere.”-Pablo Picasso


14 posted on 04/08/2015 9:04:17 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( NEVER trust a politician with your firearm rights!)
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To: Salgak

I’ve been following this one as well. Literary awards and generally publishing itself are very vulnerable to organized takeovers by people pushing an agenda, and SF is no exception. I had a brief conversation in a bookstore with a young lady who was very open about forcing the awards to women and minorities “to make up for past oppression.” She challenged me to name a single female SF author and when I named five, the conversation was over.


15 posted on 04/08/2015 9:09:31 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Salgak

I actually have a friend on Facebook who years ago won a Hugo. I’m not following her since she and her other friends post dozens of cat videos per day but I went and looked at her wall and she is still just posting cats and other stuff and no political stuff so I think I will respect her space and not copy her on this.


16 posted on 04/08/2015 9:57:43 AM PDT by Mercat
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To: Salgak

All of which really goes to show why the Hugo isn’t actually that prestigious. I mean everybody likes getting awards, but anything voted on by the people, especially a self selecting group of people with no real claim to anything, isn’t that big a deal. I know a World Con attendee, she votes every year, which is generally preceded by getting voting ideas from her friends since nobody manages to read all the nominees every year.

I suppose competing vote riggings can be kind of entertaining, but it certainly doesn’t help the value of the award.


17 posted on 04/08/2015 10:09:02 AM PDT by discostu (Bobby, I'm sorry you have a head like a potato.)
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To: Fred Hayek

Yep. We read Brecht. He should have been jailed for torture.


18 posted on 04/08/2015 10:21:19 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Mercat

I think ultimately we all devolve to cat videos every day sooner or later, kinda like how we are destined to someday return to base molecules, and the Universe.


19 posted on 04/08/2015 11:10:47 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (The time is now to form up into leaderless cells of 5 men or less.)
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To: Salgak; All
For anyone who enjoys SF/F and wants to vote on the Hugos, simply go to the Sasquan Membership Registration page, buy a supporting membership for $40, and you'll be eligible to vote in all of the categories this year. You will also be eligible to nominate works for next year's Hugo awards.

Have fun, annoy a Social Justice Weenie!

20 posted on 04/08/2015 11:44:34 AM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear (Gentlemen may cry, "Peace, peace," but there is no peace. The war is actually begun!)
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