He has no sock(puppet)s, and he must cry wolf*-bullied bullies are everywhere

[typographer]

I started to assemble this post about an aggrieved conservative sci-fi writer last week, but other things kept coming up, and since the kerfuffle seems to have blown over, I wasn’t sure there was much value in throwing in my two cents. But then a couple of the most recent developments in some national news stories made certain similarities between the actions of certain distressed pups and other angry white men. I decided that with so angry white men claiming to be victims, and maybe it was worth looking at a fairly inconsequential example that played out over a handful of days to get some insight into the motivations of the others...

(The rest of this post about a kerfuffle and larger societal issues is at FontFolly.Net.)

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