One of those internet drama days

[sasha_feather]

Holy shit!

Today there was an "April Fool's" post at Locus that was supposedly making fun of WisCon. You can read about it various places. Trigger warning for Islamophobia and general awfulness.

emceeaich: Not Funny, Locus (includes screencap)

Locus Apologies and Takes it down: An apology

The author of the post shows no remorse at all, however, and gripes on his own personal blog about free speech: WisCon's Fail Feminist Fandom Brigrade Gets My Locus Post taken Down (includes transcript)

Also lots of discussion on Twitter.

In case you're wondering who "Belle Gunness" is, she was a serial killer.
Trigger warning for, serial killing? Wiki article about Belle Gunness. Thanks to kalmn for figuring that one out.

Comments

[chaila]

........

I was away from the interwebs for awhile and saw references to this on Twitter and hadn't yet tracked down the details. Holy shit, his reaction is so awful and point-missing and just generally surreal that it borders on hilarity. Hilariawful?

Hilarious joke when thinking people of different genders and races should be equal is the same as killing white men!

As is customary now on the internet, I will end this comment with:

FREE SPEECH!1!1!!11!

[holyoutlaw]

Guess I'm glad I missed it, I don't know.

I got as far as the first comma of his response.

The comments on the Locus apology don't show much introspection either.

[kalmn]

Someone pointed it out to me on fb- not sure how she feels about having her real name circulated.

[emceeaich]

Glyer's coverage of this is biased as hell http://file770.com/?p=12272

[(Anonymous)]

Reckon we are having an impact . As G Snobrich and K Moore taught me at WisCon 31, when theymock and attempt to shame you, they have no good arguments left.

Jesse the K on a borrowed tablet in a store