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Originally Posted by Amake
Orson Scott Card's gay-hating tendencies damage the credibility of writers and give writers bad ideas more than this, and I'm fine with not giving him any of my money, but there's a lot of people for whom his work means a great deal, who have felt incredibly betrayed by the revelation of his bigotry, and yet they apparently deal with it without feeling the need to attack Card personally. Indie game enthusiasts have not shown the same dignity.
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For what it's worth, the fans of Card's work mostly just seem to be defending all the money he gives to actual hate groups as "exercising his freedom of speech" and calls to have him not get paid for things since that money goes to funding said actual hategroups as "denying him his livelihood because you don't agree with his opinions."
Orson Scott Card is a fucking monster whose actions have helped lead to getting innocent people killed just because of how they were born and anyone who doesn't call him out on this is honestly an immensely worse person than phil Fish themselves.
The two are incomparable, and the fact that Fish gets more hate just for being a big spoiled baby who can't take criticism and has internet tantrums than Card whose actions have very real and very dire consequences for society is astounding. And don't think for a minute that means I think people are being unfair to Fish. Card just deserves considerably more hate than he's getting.