Because more people need to suffer.

[theweaselking]

James May's "why people who object to racism in SF/F are THE REAL RACISTS".

(no, not the famous James May. A completely different James May. Not one you've heard of, I think, although I could be wrong. Point is: Not the famous James May.)

You may, as I did, feel a sense of deja vu at a number of his idiotic statements. That's because his previous many-thousand-word-salad was directed at John Scalzi, who summarised it as "Overthinking, Done Poorly and At Length"

May has not improved either his thinking or his length in the year since that: At the far end of the link is what Word tells me is *one hundred and twenty-seven THOUSAND* words of word salad about how people who object to racism in SF/F are totally as bad as Hitler[1]. And this is "Part 2". One shudders about "part 1".

Ping: james_nicoll, this seems like the kind of thing you'd enjoy laughing at/linking to the unsuspecting/would cry over. And, because of your MPR tag, I feel you deserve this one.

[1]: Bonus: I'm not exaggerating. I dare you to search for the word "Hitler" and see his various sentiments and his followup sentences. Memetic prophylactic recommended.

Comments

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

It's more than five hundred pages long. I certainly would never suggest anyone reading any more than their own personal Train Wreck Syndrome demands, and I will happily admit that for someone without Train Wreck Syndrome there's nothing worth reading there at all.

[cleodhna.livejournal.com]

It's FIVE... HUNDRED...
That's just. No. Just no.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

127,000 words, at approximately 250 words per page, makes ~500 pages.

For comparison, "a novel" is anything over 40,000 words. The first Harry Potter was 77,000 words. John Galt's speech in Atlas Shrugged is a 33,000 word nonstop monologue. Stephen King's "Cujo" is 120,000.

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

I'd rather read Atlanta Nights.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

I'd rather read that book which began by outlining the two-thousand-year-old Muslim plot against America and had the protagonist shooting a machinegun at a statue's crotch. (Or something. The details are mercifully vague.)

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Jon Land's "The Vengeance Of The Tao"!

silmaril You must read this book, it is THAT TERRIBLE.