So much fail

[kaberett]

• Lois McMaster Bujold: kind of racist
  
• Jared Diamond: kind of racist

Ugh. Things I am kicking myself for not having been aware of, and passing on for those of you as are also likely to care. :-(

Comments

[damerell]

Or perhaps Wrede wrote a perfectly unexceptional piece of alternative history which was not, in fact, appalling at all.

I do like how the author of that attack on Bujold manages to simultaneously complain about a lack of rigour and slip in the fatuous notion that native Americans lived "in harmony with nature".

[liv]

Meh, I spent a lot of time reading and thinking about the Thirteenth Child issues 2-3 years ago, and I don't want to rehash all that now with you, certainly not in kaberett's journal. I know what I think about the choice to write AH where there were no Native Americans, and I don't particularly think that everyone who disagrees with my conclusion (eg Bujold, you) or enjoys Wrede's book is evil. My problem with Bujold here is the way she chose to argue her case, implying that all possible criticisms of the book, and all the hurt and anger, were necessarily illegitimate. Absolutely, some people who disapproved of the book also used rhetoric I have a problem with. I still agree with that group, as it happens.