“All people see is a target for absolutist rage right now. The mob shows up, the mob savages, the mob leaves certain they’ve done the right thing… after killing someone who only ever helped them. Someone, using @SFWA, managed a devastating attack on her.”
This isn’t even the first time SFWA has rushed in to condemn the woman for past transgressions.
When Lackey was named back in November, a twenty-year old Q&A and a 2017 Quora post surfaced, in which she apparently held some intolerable opinion about the use of ‘they’ in the singular in regards to pronouns; for failing to sufficiently microparse this nu-speak blather, she was subsequently ‘asked to clarify’ her position, which of course required a wholly needless and public display of self-flagellation. Not even someone as thoroughly on the side of trans individuals as Lackey, whose reputation on the matter had been virtually unassailable for over thirty years, could escape the crime of retroactive wrongthink. The Committee of Public Safety had demanded that a display had to be made.
Meanwhile, SFWA wanted to tell everyone:
Hmm, “comfort elves”, are those like the “comfort women” that Japan enjoyed in WW2?