I don't care if Orson Card is a raging homophobe that funnels my money to oppress Gays

[dbackjon]

Damn it, I love Ender's Game!!






(Said a number of people on here)

[theHandpuppet]

1. Well, we must all set life's priorities

On the other hand, my SO is a Trek author and she never minded a dime or two of royalties. (After Paramount takes its ridiculously large cut, a dime or two is about all an author gets.) And her extra money goes to supporting scholarships for GLBT youth and Emily's List.

Being more of a non-fiction reader myself, I will have to ask her what she thinks of Card's books, if she's read any.

[dbackjon]

2. It is sad how many on here think that way

[theHandpuppet]

3. I don't know what it is about folks these days

Too many say they're all for civil rights, labor, against the war, etc etc but only to the extent that they don't want to be inconvenienced. It's much easier to be "keyboard warriors". Years ago people took to the streets to protest war and injustice and that's how they finally got real results. Now you can barely get folks out of their chair.
Well, if they're going to buy Card's books anyway, they might as well buy them at WalMart or order them online, as I'm sure supporting their local bookseller is entirely too much trouble. Just shows you how much support we can expect if there's a call for a boycott of any kind.

[LostinRed]

12. Just buy it used

then he gets no money problem solved. It is a really good book though the rest of them sucked so he's a one hit wonder.

[shenmue]

4. Too bad

It's a shame Card has to be that way.

[MuseRider]

5. I loved it too

but I will never loan it out, read it again or buy another book that man writes. The movie? Pftttt, I looked forward to it for years. No freaking way. I loved a number of his books. They are put away where nobody can see them and when I die I hope my kids remember what to do with them....NOT let anyone read them.

He is dead to me as a writer and a pain in the ass and a danger as a human.

[Ian David]

6. Those people can all go fuck themselves.

Also...

Oh hey, Orson Scott Card also wrote about Obama becoming Hitler and commanding an army of gang members

After previously using his powers of creativity to paint a world where people are more tolerant of a person’s lifelong campaign to shun homosexuals, Ender’s Game author Orson Scott Card has spun another fantastical, mind-bending yarn: that of a very near-future America where Obama is a Hitler-like dictator, remaining in power indefinitely with the help of his army of “urban gangs.” It’s a scenario that Card himself dubs “just a silly thought experiment,” just the sort of playful, what-if exercise that has long captured the imagination of producers trying desperately to pretend that someone else besides Orson Scott Card is responsible for the movie they’re trying to sell, because good lord, and every bit as convincing.

The post—preemptively titled “Unlikely Events,” to make clear Card doesn’t really believe all the very specific predictions based on character assassinations and subtle racism he’s about to lay out, but rather is just asking questions here—first appeared back in May, though it’s only now getting some attention thanks to Dave Weigel's essay in Slate and other, obvious reasons. For instance, there's the anticipation surrounding Ender’s Game and the attendant craze for more sci-fi fun, and the fact that Obama is an Augustus-like emperor who “acts as if the Constitution were just for show” and “hates the very idea of compromise,” as all the totally uncompromised legislation Obama has pushed through bears out.

More:
http://www.avclub.com/articles/oh-hey-orson-scott-card-also-wrote-about-obama-bec,101703/

[dbackjon]

7. That is what inspired this

A post on that in GD - where posters saying - well, that is the last straw - I could handle his homophobia, but this, too much

[Ian David]

8. "It was okay when it was just the gay people, but THIS matters to ME!"

People fucking suck.

[theHandpuppet]

9. Yup.

That pretty much sums it up.

[dbackjon]

10. Kind of like DU turning on Obama over NSA

But not over lack of progress on gay rights - now it is worth sitting an election out. But for us, not so much.

[Behind the Aegis]

11. Some will change their tune now that he compared Obama to Hitler.

Watch!

ETA: Guess I should read the thread before posting.