Link of the Week: Amal El-Mohtar Calls for the Expulsion of Theodore Beale from SFWA

You've probably already seen it, but if you haven't, here you go.  If you scroll down to the comments section, you can see a lot of other responses to the situation.

In short, Theodore Beale (a.k.a. Vox Day) is our resident loud-mouthed racist and misogynist.  This is not a bit of name calling.  This is just established fact.  The things he's written about women and people of color so clearly define him as among the most vile minds among us that I'm surprised it took until Amal's post to spark serious discussion about expelling him from the SFWA.  Then again, I suppose this is the first time he's explicitly broken "the rules."  And that's the crux of the matter:  Beale/Day used an official SFWA space to increase his readership (as opposed to N.K. Jemisin who gave a speech at a non-SFWA function), and in doing so, he turned SFWA's voice into a loudspeaker for racism.  It's like the guy comes straight out of a D.W. Griffith film...

I may have more to say about this whole thing later, but if not, there's plenty of interesting stuff to read in Amal's post alone.  The links at the bottom of that post add a whole lot more.

Anywhoodles.

Shocking Revelations: Pointing Out Racism Doesn't Mean You Hate White People

A certain someone has written a brilliant little post in which they argues that John Scalzi should be impeached as SFWA president and N.K. Jemisin / Saladin Ahmed should be removed from the Nebula Awards short list because they apparently hate white people.  You read that right.  And you will also notice that I haven't linked to said individual's post, if only because it is mind-numbingly stupid.  If you're desperate enough to read it, though, you can do some clever Google searching.  For simplicity's sake, I will refer to this individual as Mr. Frosty Pants.

The post that has most offended Mr. Frosty Pants seems to be Scalzi's rather popular "Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is."  I recommend you read that post, since it is obviously a steaming pile of anti-white nonsense (this must be what the white nationalists mean when they huff and puff about the genocide against the white race; damn you, Scalzi, for your word murder).  Of course, in the real world, it is a somewhat humorous way to explore how racial privilege works.  This is not what Mr. Frosty Pants takes from it, of course.  Instead, he argues the following: