Damn, reading up on this made me MATI.
What am absolute dick move, inviting a 71-year-old lady to your conference to honor her with a lifetime achievement award, only to then publicly denounce her and throw her out of the conference for such a frivolous reasons.
The
SFWA's official statement (
archive) is hysterical, repeatedly accusing her in a pearl-clutching tone of "using a racial slur".
If you read only that statement, you'd think that she had, like, walked onto the conference stage with a grin on her face and shouted into the microphone
"Fucking niggers, am I right?".
In reality, her only offense was that when she praised a black colleague of her generation, she used the phrase "colored person" instead of "person of color".
The moderator didn't step in to point out to her that she had used an outdated term, either.
Instead, they let her finish her speech like the passive-aggressive cunts that they are, and then sent her and her husband (collective punishment I guess?) a message informing them that they were being thrown out.
The black colleague she was referring to,
wasn't even offended (
archive).
It was the SFWA leadership who felt the need to step in with their zero-tolerance "swift action".
The 71-year-old lady's husband
tweeted afterwards (
archive) that she was "shivering, crying uncontrollably".
Now, it looks like this lady was herself a life-long bleeding-heart, sodomy-promoting libtard, and in a way, the current incarnation of millenial Woke fanaticism is the end result of what the boomer libs paved the way for. But still, she didn't deserve
this.
Sorry for the long non-Fatrick rant.
TL;DR: Turns out the only organization that stands behind Fatrick is led by callous, self-righteous assholes. Figures.