see, it's like this

[rm]

yuki_onna has a great post about why it's perfectly easy to boycott books of people who say appalling bigoted stuff on the Internet.

It is not, as so many people seem to think, some dogmatic decision to only engage with people who think exactly like me. Rather, life is short, books cost money, and when it comes down to deciding what I want to read -- allowing for a few cases of staggering genius that actually makes these decisions complex -- I'm not going to read stuff by people who are hateful, threatening and rude to me and mine, online or off.

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[devvieish.livejournal.com]

If I was one of the people who seems to think the boycott is about not engaging with people you disagree with - well, that's not what I was trying to say. (And if I wasn't one of the people you had in mind, I probably shouldn't draw attention to myself, but oh well.)

My point was that seemingly every comment on all the fail!posts was in complete agreement about the fail (except for the ones that were arguing about off-topic points). So I see some people saying "the fundies only listen to people who agree with them" and it looks like... pot meet kettle.

(None of this means people shouldn't boycott, or that the bigotry in the post on question is okay, cause it isn't.)

[rm.livejournal.com]

Nope, your post came in way after this.