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comment by Meriadoc
Meriadoc  ·  3523 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Who Won Science Fiction’s Hugo Awards, and Why It Matters

The important thing is the right wing reactionaries lost.





user-inactivated  ·  3522 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Except they didn't. Their objection was to authors they disapproved of winning awards, and they prevented authors they disapproved of from winning awards.

Meriadoc  ·  3514 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Wait, did they? I just saw this and will have to look again, but I thought they were opposed to leftist, minority, and women authors, and it seems all the winners, save Guardians of the Galaxy, were exactly that.

You are right though that they did, in a way, succeed. They infected the organization and had name recognition. They disrupted the process and more deserving candidates didn't get nominated because their reactionary trash got in in its place. But I'll take the minor victory here. It's... something.