Timber said:
The only power we can exert is our power to not give money to people who might use it for purposes we find offensive. That's not a power trip; that's common sense. And you seem to imply that this decision extends only to Shadow Complex.
I agree with this entirely, and I never implied that your decision extends ONLY to Shadow Complex, but that *is* what this thread is about, and its what I'm talking about.
But sometimes doing what seems reasonable or right or just only serves to have the opposite effect. Good intentions and all that.
As somebody who has a great many gay friends as well as family filled with closet bigots, I can easily imagine their reactions. People on the fence, who are not pro-gay rights, but aren't
against it either will see something innocuous being targeted unreasonably, and gain OSC some sympathy.
Prop 8 didn't pass because of Orson Scott Card, or video games related to him, or his books, or any of a million tangential reasons. It failed because the campaign was flawed and mismanaged, and riled up the opposition prematurely, and forced people to take sides too early into this movement.
*If* this thread's boycott happened on a wide scale, made the press, was "successful", it'll do more harm than good. That's what I mean by picking battles. Its also what I meant by spite instead of strategy. This is all of course, opinion.