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Geek Wars - aka fear of a black hobbit
conservative whining about casting is pure snowflake behavior.
this quote is far too polite, but a solid argument.
My contempt is not for people who love genre fiction. It’s for people who feel assaulted by the presence of women protagonists or people of color in their genre fiction. I don’t consider that a reasonable or substantive complaint about the quality of the work.
linked too in above article, well worth a read and as prescient as noted.
How Russian Trolls Helped Keep the Women’s March Out of Lock Step
we’ve been in a metaphorical shooting war for the past 15 years and we haven’t even realized it.