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[theweaselking]

Orson Scott Card joins Scott Adams in the "I haven't done my homework, but I won't let that stop me" pile.

Speaking of which,

I'm just saying, is all.

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[desdenova.livejournal.com]

OSC has been a tool for a long, long time.

[missysedai.livejournal.com]

Dude, such an understatement.

I stopped buying his books after I read one particularly hateful rant of his a few years ago.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Yes, but he's normally a bigoted tool about *other* things, not this one.

[desdenova.livejournal.com]

Once you buy into the right-wing religious nut-job mindset, forever will it dominate your destiny.

[elffin.livejournal.com]

He obviously needs to read Kitzmiller vs Dover. And he goes on a bit of "sniping" (actually slippery slope) himself by conflating a refusal by scientists to debate creationists with not having an explanation.

It's sad when someone whom I was expected to respect, turns out to be a tool of activist spinmeisters, repeating the "It's not religious!" lie and painting the people who want /science/ taught as 'religious fanatics'.

Way to be a tool of the real religious fanatics, Card.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Card *is* one of the real religious fanatics, though. He's a rabid Mormon, with all the expected accompanying misogyny and homophobia.

[jerem-morrow.livejournal.com]

It irritates me to no end that the man who wrote one of my fave books, is such a mindless prick.

[neobitch.livejournal.com]

Ugh. Likewise. :P

[matgb]

Agreed; I still like most of the Ender books, but whenever I read his RW views, I wonder why. Ah well.

[jerem-morrow.livejournal.com]

There are definite points in the Ender series that note his world view. He just seems to not want make it so blatant in his characters. As if to keep them from blame.

[publius1.livejournal.com]

It kinda makes sense though; genius in one form doesn't denote genius in all forms.

Indeed.

[jerem-morrow.livejournal.com]

Very well put.

[jirel.livejournal.com]

I have been telling people for years that you can tell by his books he's bigoted and stupid and they keep telling me "You can't tell that from his books! Its just the way he writes not necessarily the way he thinks." Well, hellooooo!

[gothpanda.livejournal.com]

You should join me in being stompy at unnamed525, who reposted your article and thinks that OSC has a point.