I have a few things to get of my chest so you people should probably just wait for the next post which should be the announcmet of Sailing East….
Cancel culture: We had another example of this with some cretin named Jason Sanford claiming that Baen’s Bar is full dangerous right wing loonies and the company pushes a conservative agenda… or so you would believe if you read his piece. Which I did. It is full of distortions, of limited examples, of gross manipulation of the facts and probably outright lies. He fails to mention that probably the most influential person on the Bar after the company people, is that well know socialist and self professed union rabble-rouser Eric Flint who is neither right, conservative nor and advocate civil insurrection. So he just failed to mention his involvement in the bar. He mentioned Ms Lackey, citing somethign that happened twenty years ago and which everyone, including her who still publishes through Baen, has largely forgotten.

He pulls out examples from the Political board by people of dubious names and claims they are representative. Fails to mention that most of the activity on the Bar is in the sections to do with writing books.. populated by authors like Bujold, Weber et all – people who have millions of book in print unlike Mr Sanford who is a known for his short stories… apparently.
I don’t know who the f##k he thinks he is but he is typical of what is wrong with western culture these days. half truths, blatant distortions and lies passed off as reality. He is a pipsqueak compared to the names I have mentioned above yet presents himself as a SOMEBODY of merit. While he hides behind a locked twitter account, a paywall website and has no facebook account at all apparently.

Well he can publish whatever he likes but this is one person who won’t be buying anything that his name on it.

And then there is the Star Wars disgrace.

Where do I start? If she had said something that denigrated the company or the products – yeah fire her. If she had insulted anybody at Disney personally in a public forum – yeah fire her. Was she disruptive on set? Yeah fire her.
As far as I can tell none of those applied. She was fired for expressing her private views in a media site that had nothing to do with the performance of her duties.

And this is from company that brought us “Song of the South” let alone some of the atrocious wartime cartoons and don’t even get me started on the subject of Lemmings….
Criticize someone for their views, certainly, see above. Disagree with them, fine. But Penalize them? No. Penalizing someone for publicly saying what they believe even if you disagree with their beliefs – is not what the First Amendment is about. In Germany it led to the Nazi’s with their book burnings…..