As far as being booted is concerned, I seem to have read somewhere that the guy OWNS "helix" and is thus unlikely to boot himself.
As for the original letter, the depth of savagery and ignorance are astounding. This, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, is how wars start, and are perpetuated. THe first order of business? Demonise and dehumanise your enemy, so that he is reduced to something vile and awful and therefore easy to kill - make a man into a cockroach so that you don't feel guilt when you're stepping on him. Best accomplished by generalization and broad viciousness ("the only good indian is a dead Indian...") basically denying a human being to be any kind of individual but rather forcing him or her to be "a sheethead" or to be nothing at all. It's a despicable tactic. In ANY context. Congratulating a writer for writing a character which completely fails to portray an individual and/or give that individual human emotions and intelligence is... beyond belief. It's encouraging both rampant bigotry and more or less ASKING for more bad writing portraying human beings in the same soulless way.
I gather "Helix" is more or less an invitation-only market. I'm... kind of glad I've never been invited.
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As for the original letter, the depth of savagery and ignorance are astounding. This, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, is how wars start, and are perpetuated. THe first order of business? Demonise and dehumanise your enemy, so that he is reduced to something vile and awful and therefore easy to kill - make a man into a cockroach so that you don't feel guilt when you're stepping on him. Best accomplished by generalization and broad viciousness ("the only good indian is a dead Indian...") basically denying a human being to be any kind of individual but rather forcing him or her to be "a sheethead" or to be nothing at all. It's a despicable tactic. In ANY context. Congratulating a writer for writing a character which completely fails to portray an individual and/or give that individual human emotions and intelligence is... beyond belief. It's encouraging both rampant bigotry and more or less ASKING for more bad writing portraying human beings in the same soulless way.
I gather "Helix" is more or less an invitation-only market. I'm... kind of glad I've never been invited.