Gencon drama, it is NOT inclusive enough! Writers Symposium dissolved, drama, DEI and You!

!commenters !bookworms !writecel

Holy fricking shit she wrote a fantasy short story bitching about the whole thing

You must read this. But here's a taste:

The committee, Zeta learned, had misspoken. The fairies of Hela Hill were not welcome. They were invited. And, Zeta learned, these were not the same.

("fairies" = fat black chicks?)

"Do you wish to be removed?" The Deputy asked, eyes glinting.

"No. I wish to be respected." Zeta stood from her chair, willing her legs to steady. "The modification of the violet lights to mauve is something that several fairies have communicated as an issue in their attendance."

She has such a way with dialog.

Remember, people have paid this woman money for writing. There's for you too

I disclosed that I was brought onto the committee in the first place because I am fully mentally disabled

!r-slurs

>female worms her way into a thing and immediately destroys it with her foidery

They are all about DEI and inclusivity to an insufferable level. I felt nervous dealing with them even as a BIPOC because I worried I would say the wrong thing and create an incident.

The exact reason I avoid cumskins like this. The last thing I need to deal with is some "I would've voted for Obama a third time" b-word trying to blow up my life via a combined !foidmoment and !mayomoment just because I think N. K. Jemisin is overrated.

Again, this is a board game convention, not the DNC.

It's trading cards, role playing and board games sweaty.

But I would bet my left nut that the fault lies with the "disabled" foid and that there is way more to the story.

100% this.

Same thing happened years ago at a writer's panel I was at with some friends

https://www.themarysue.com/dissenting-opinions-may-occur/

Which of course isn't at all how it happened at the panel when she makes the moderator out to be the devil and he wasn't.

The foids all came in looking for a fight and then tried to become the victims per Foid 101.

It was pretty awesome though since we had went to Harry and Izzy's to have some drinks before the panel and then these foids go crazy.

Patrick Tomlinson attended this year. Somehow, he is to blame.

The people running these events, and the power player volunteers behind them are all aboard with lib social politics. They are all about DEI and inclusivity to an insufferable level.

Of course they are!

That's how these human molds infect them in the first place. Their ideology has as much scientific rigour as witch hunting, as long as the correct person with the correct "marginalised" attributes makes an accusation filled with the correct words, the accusation is its own proof (which ironically is the epitome of privilege). This attracts insufferably narcissist grifters and sociopaths, who abuse this ideology for their own benefit. If anything doesnt go their way, they claim witchcraft is afoot and tear everything down.

But if the community they try to infect doesnt let them take hold in the first place, their accusations of witchcraft find no resonance and they end up revealed for what they are, narcissist abusers and sociopaths throwing accusations around like a petulant child.

Unfortunately modern society, especially with social media, rewards these accusations even without evidence. It's an incredibly toxic culture and unbievably destructive to a society, but here we are. . The watershed moment for it was metoo, imo. Theres no coming back from it, it elevated baseless acusations to sivine truth as long as the correct person accuses the correct person with the correct words. Theres no coming back from it.

DEI has been absolutely great at letting me know what institutions and organizations are infact run by r-slurred people.

Gencon was better when it was wirey-haired nerds in Metallica t-shirts obsessed with Shadowrun

It should be mainpage pinned, not just in the hole.

'member how it was before foids appropriated g*mer/nerd culture?

>I am also hearing from many people that my removal from Origins Game Fair also over issues related to inclusion (they write "race" as if they aren't ready to believe me) is evidence that I must be a problem. I do not have energy to defend my integrity or the existence of documentation.

If you can't defend your shitty behavior """integrity""", then you're just telling us you never had any to begin with.

This is probably pretty relevant.

https://edebell.com/about/

Not pinning this post would certainly be centering whiteness.

Snapshots:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikki_Kendall:

• ghostarchive.org

• archive.org

• archive.ph (click to archive)

https://edebell.com/2024/09/11/gcws-dismissal/:

• ghostarchive.org

• archive.org

• archive.ph (click to archive)

https://old.reddit.com/r/gencon/comments/1feksgg/gencon_writers_symposium_future_uncertain/:

• undelete.pullpush.io

• ghostarchive.org

• archive.org

• archive.ph (click to archive)

I like how even redditors can tell this b-word is a psychotic nightmare from her side of the story

Now THAT'S what I call mental illness!

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Con = Confidence Trick

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How does Origins compare to Gen Con?