Taking a Side
I'm taking a side in a genuine Internet controversy: this letter and the fallout thereof.
If you are an editor for a major publication and you make blatantly racist comments (and his argument that he is just talking about terrorists does not hold up from the use of 'sheet-heads') then you deserve what you get. Writers have the right to report bad behavior of this magnitude.
If you are an editor for a major publication and you make blatantly racist comments (and his argument that he is just talking about terrorists does not hold up from the use of 'sheet-heads') then you deserve what you get. Writers have the right to report bad behavior of this magnitude.
posted by Spencer at 9:03 PM
2 Comments:
Ouch.
I agree, that's inexcusable.
Yikes. I'm going to come down firmly on the side of yikes.
I almost feel bad for the guy, since obviously that wasn't intended to be shown to an audience, and he was writing to a particular person and trying to give a nice rejection letter, but...yikes.
That comment about sheet heads is in no way directed only at terrorists (or, if it is, then Mr. Editor needs to take a writing class because his writing is so unclear that his meaning is totally lost). What he wrote is: " . . . most of the SF magazines are very leery of publishing anything that might offend the sheet heads."
As far as I know no one is really worried about offending TERRORISTS, so there's very little way to take that other than a racist comment against Muslims.
YIIIIKES.
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