John C Wright has a post up on his blog discussing an interview he gave in 2019 over the Sad Puppies campaign:
Q: What do you think is the primary artistic/cultural difference between the pro-Sad Puppies and anti-Sad Puppies camps? What is the primary political/ideological difference between the two groups?
JCW: The two camps are divided by a very clear and deep difference, which is neither artistic nor cultural. It has some political aspects, but the difference is more fundamental than any disagreement over laws and policies. There are ideological excuses given for motives, but the true motives run deeper, to the very core of the soul, and ideology is only a surface feature.
The divide is a religious war.
Do not be deceived by phrases like political correctness and social justice warfare. Politics and society are side effects of deeper differences, which are essentially religious in the sense that religion springs out of a man’s most profound beliefs about life and death, man and morality, cosmos and chaos and the ultimate causes of all things.
Political correctness is a religion in everything but theology. It provides the cultists with answers to all life’s basic questions, gives meaning and purpose to their lives, and forms the basis of their social interactions with others. It is their atmosphere.
Religious war are not fought over this issue or that issue, over this parcel of land or that. Such wars are fought over the eternal fate of men’s souls. They are fought over all things together as a whole. They are fought over the universe. No one thing is at stake. Everything is at stake.
Go read the rest. Understand that what he talked about then is even worse. They aren't even trying to hide their service to evil now, they celebrate it. Realize, down to your bones, that this will come to a physical fight, eventually, because evil cannot tolerate good, and that you best take the time now to learn everything there is to know about such people near you so that when it does go physical, you don't have to go anywhere to do something about it.
My armor is contempt
My shield is disgust
My sword is hatred
rip and tear, until it is done
It's not an exaggeration to say there is no common ground either.
The left are not Americans, they're certainly not patriots and they aren't even people. We are going to have to destroy them and then outlaw them to secure a future for our children. Being free, means being free of them.
Thanks. That whole fiasco really made me mad. NK Jemison won 3 years in a row and just whined about being an oppressed black woman. Then GRRM got attacked for mispronouncing a name. Big sellers like Orson Scott Card or Sanderson didn’t get a thing
Don't forget the wooden asshole those fuckers gave to Toni Weisskopf, the long time editor for Baen that had shepherded so many authors into best sellers.
Baen is like the only non woke sci fi company left right?
For traditional publishing, pretty much.
There is Castalia House. They publish some of the normie right Sci-fi and fantasy, like John C. Wright, Jerry Pournelle, and Vox Day.
Thanks! I remember someone told me about that. I had forgotten
Probably me, I shill them and Arkhaven all the time.
Chuck Dixon has done work for Arkhaven right? Been meaning to support them
Yep.
He hasn't internalized what he is preaching. He still thinks like a liberal, and thus is still playing their game.
He is right about the divide being deeper than mere ideology. It is a problem of fundamental foundational philosophy.
At the core are the Non Aggression Principle and the Tabula Rasa. Those two principles lead inevitably to the socialist/communist left.
You mean a guy saying "don't talk about politics bro, its all religion that's the problem!" might be a Liberal trying to still position himself as "one of the good ones"?
I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you.
Next you'll tell me that we haven't seen this exact type of posturing weekly for decades by the same "I have the true answers to all of the worlds problems" smug retard who later turns out to believe none of the principles he espouses.
It angers me whenever they start with the ..."I have a [insert token progressive stack entry here]" and attempt to use their allegiance to progressive ideology to denounce what they perceive to be the more extreme versions of Leftism, as if to appeal to the emotions of the perpetually aggrieved. Their futile appeals are disgusting.
It angers me to no end.
Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't.
Yep. Never apologize, they always lie and they always project.
Right? It is almost as someone wrote a book about it.
Didn't know he wrote a book. Will definitely have to get it. Also need to get his comics
Corporate Cancer is another good one.
shakes fist Drat you, old swabbie, I was about to post this!
On topic:
Notice the pre/post Covington kids mentality. The Right then was Eeyore, "oh, weeeeeeeel. Guess I have to let the media and whores slander and libel meeeeeeeeee." The Right now would be calling any lawyers they knew from college.
The other takeaway is how utterly willing the leftists are to deny reality. "You aren't that great a writer, you RIGHT WING WAYSIS!" "Sooooo.... why do you buy my writing, then?" "sputtering noises"
Consider yourself ninjaed. :D