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Jul 13, 2015 12:14

This year's haul.


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nihilistic_kid July 13 2015, 17:23:35 UTC
The code of conduct's last four or five sentences are horrifying. It's literally why I have no plans on ever attending again. (That, and, of course, the prior sentence basically bans a Marxist analysis on panels.)

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farklebarkle July 13 2015, 17:32:57 UTC
Sorry we'll miss you. (This and Boskone are probably the only cons we'll ever go to, because they're close and I'm lazy.)

Which sentence are you referring to...?

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nihilistic_kid July 13 2015, 17:41:09 UTC
Banning comments about socioeconomic status.

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farklebarkle July 13 2015, 17:48:30 UTC
Huh. I read it as "do not make derogatory comments about..." socioeconomic class in one-on-one interactions.

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nihilistic_kid July 13 2015, 17:50:46 UTC
it is the nature of such policies that they'll be misused. It doesn't say only one-on-one interactions. And nor should it; people would rightly object to someone at a panel saying "The problem with all you Jews, and I see a bunch of you in the audience..."

But it's a sociological inevitability that left-wing content policing will be seized by the right and sued against people. This is especially true in a thoroughly middle-class milieu like fandom.

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