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Jim Crow, Science Fiction, and WorldCon
- quantified 5y ago> Actually Southern segregational practices are highly unprofitable to all Southerners, but most Southern whites take the view they’d rather be poor than suffer what they consider spiritual defilement. I don’t approve of their attitude any more than deA, but to drag in Communist twaddle merely confuses the issue. —L. Sprague de Camp, Asmodeus #3 (Spring 1952), 25 > This is ultimately nitpicking without addressing the substance of the problem, something else that fans of science fiction today will recognize whenever the issue of discrimination rears its head. A penchant for pedantry often undermines any real progress, and carefully side-steps the issue of acknowledging a problem exists or what to do about it. Disagree with the characterization of this important observation as “pedantry”. Another HN thread recently recalled LBJ’s similar observation. If you don’t know why something is the case, it’s harder to address.
- krapp 5y agoHow would one or the other explanation have changed the way the problem was addressed?
- quantified 5y agoHasn’t really been yet, as far as I can see.