Larry Correia, Baen Books author of the Monster Hunter International Series, bragged on Facebook about getting into fights with other authors and billionaires online.
"Earlier this year, he picked on science fiction author Yakov Merkin, who made a comment on a post that didn’t even tag Correia saying, “If Larry really cared about new authors (outside his immediate friend group) "getting a chance", he'd help signal boost people via his large platform.”
I think Mr. Merkin got stepped on because "If you REALLY [x] , you would/wouldn't do [Y] is a basic verbal attack pattern.
If you attack a man out of the blue, expect a counter-attack. Especially, since VAPs like this are pure quill weasel/mean girl tactics: Verbal subterfuge, hiding the subterfuge in misdirection.
The goal is, in fact, to get a blow up, which then allows the weasel to say, "Why is it, you [Bad Category of Person] that whenever we try to have a reasonable discussion of an issue, you turn it into fight." Nasty. In this particular construction, it includes a 2ndary hidden assumption: You should feel guilty because you're doing/not doing [Y] the which our SJW AWFLs applied relentless to us during the Covid Panic.
"You don't care about [X], Mr. Correia!" is honest. But still, we all know if you walk up to a stranger and drop an accusation on them, you have to expect a bad reaction. Sneak attacks? Hiroshima time.
The charitable responses by the way are to address the hidden attack neutrally.
1. It's interesting that so many new authors feel unsupported by a writing community.
2. Have you always believed that more prosperous authors should support less prosperous ones they don't know?
3. You're having a bad day. I know it's tough out there. I don't have the bandwidth to help everyone, but here's a link to the Based Book Sale.
"What you feed will grow", and one can either respond as a Christian peacemaker (very hard when someone sneaks up and hits you), or use the pagan method of overwhelmingly violent response, "pour encourager les autres".
YMMV. Mind the gap.
Mr. Correia chooses the latter, in part because it's hilarious. And his fans like it because this verbal attack pattern is one that our SJW pals use on us relentlessly. And sometimes the old Adam rises,
and we enjoy watching one of these pests getting pummeled.
I think he can do whatever he wants, and find your lecturing about he should act ridiculous. Apparently, he doesn’t think you, or anyone else, is in charge of regulating his conduct. And I am fine with that.
Eh. Sometimes his online presence is a bit cringe, and sometimes he goes too hard, but that's just him. But granted, if he wants us to make these allowances for him, then in fairness we have to make them for the raging woke leftists he often tears apart.
I suppose the difference is that Correia is right, and standing up for real ethics and a kind of morality, as opposed to the ideological madness the left embraces. Still, if we're caring about optics, a little more savoir-faire might help.
Oh, I get it. He's just a generally punchy fellow, and those of us on the right -- or even just right-of-center -- are having to work some things out now as we try in our various ways, large and small, to fix as much damage as we can while hoping the destroyers don't find their way back into power. In that environment, culture warriors with Correia's no-nonsense attitude find that the combativeness that won them acclaim against the left, is pushing away potential friends on the right.
My main point in that regard is just that we cheered on Correia and those like him when they tore down the left, and part of what we cheered was this combative attitude. We encouraged him, and bear some responsibility for that if it's now coming back to hurt him, or us.
Not that I entirely agree that it *is* hurting him or us. Internecine squabbles come and go; that's something the left learned when theirs was the bigger tent. Now that it's us, we need to learn that same lesson. None of these relatively small things are worth losing allies over.
IMO there's way too much punching among the right. Not that we need to toe a party line (Heaven keep us from that!), but I've gotten to the point, while listening or reading someone I heartily agree with, that I just drop out when they feel the need to snipe at someone who only 80% agrees (let alone the snipes for stupid matters of taste, ethnicity, or style).
"Earlier this year, he picked on science fiction author Yakov Merkin, who made a comment on a post that didn’t even tag Correia saying, “If Larry really cared about new authors (outside his immediate friend group) "getting a chance", he'd help signal boost people via his large platform.”
I think Mr. Merkin got stepped on because "If you REALLY [x] , you would/wouldn't do [Y] is a basic verbal attack pattern.
If you attack a man out of the blue, expect a counter-attack. Especially, since VAPs like this are pure quill weasel/mean girl tactics: Verbal subterfuge, hiding the subterfuge in misdirection.
The goal is, in fact, to get a blow up, which then allows the weasel to say, "Why is it, you [Bad Category of Person] that whenever we try to have a reasonable discussion of an issue, you turn it into fight." Nasty. In this particular construction, it includes a 2ndary hidden assumption: You should feel guilty because you're doing/not doing [Y] the which our SJW AWFLs applied relentless to us during the Covid Panic.
"You don't care about [X], Mr. Correia!" is honest. But still, we all know if you walk up to a stranger and drop an accusation on them, you have to expect a bad reaction. Sneak attacks? Hiroshima time.
The charitable responses by the way are to address the hidden attack neutrally.
1. It's interesting that so many new authors feel unsupported by a writing community.
2. Have you always believed that more prosperous authors should support less prosperous ones they don't know?
3. You're having a bad day. I know it's tough out there. I don't have the bandwidth to help everyone, but here's a link to the Based Book Sale.
"What you feed will grow", and one can either respond as a Christian peacemaker (very hard when someone sneaks up and hits you), or use the pagan method of overwhelmingly violent response, "pour encourager les autres".
YMMV. Mind the gap.
Mr. Correia chooses the latter, in part because it's hilarious. And his fans like it because this verbal attack pattern is one that our SJW pals use on us relentlessly. And sometimes the old Adam rises,
and we enjoy watching one of these pests getting pummeled.
I think he can do whatever he wants, and find your lecturing about he should act ridiculous. Apparently, he doesn’t think you, or anyone else, is in charge of regulating his conduct. And I am fine with that.
I'll make a promise right now. If I ever become as famous as these infants, I'll keep my mouth shut and write for my fans.
Eh. Sometimes his online presence is a bit cringe, and sometimes he goes too hard, but that's just him. But granted, if he wants us to make these allowances for him, then in fairness we have to make them for the raging woke leftists he often tears apart.
I suppose the difference is that Correia is right, and standing up for real ethics and a kind of morality, as opposed to the ideological madness the left embraces. Still, if we're caring about optics, a little more savoir-faire might help.
Leftists we do not have to tolerate. Our goal here is to stop him from punching right, which he does a lot.
Oh, I get it. He's just a generally punchy fellow, and those of us on the right -- or even just right-of-center -- are having to work some things out now as we try in our various ways, large and small, to fix as much damage as we can while hoping the destroyers don't find their way back into power. In that environment, culture warriors with Correia's no-nonsense attitude find that the combativeness that won them acclaim against the left, is pushing away potential friends on the right.
My main point in that regard is just that we cheered on Correia and those like him when they tore down the left, and part of what we cheered was this combative attitude. We encouraged him, and bear some responsibility for that if it's now coming back to hurt him, or us.
Not that I entirely agree that it *is* hurting him or us. Internecine squabbles come and go; that's something the left learned when theirs was the bigger tent. Now that it's us, we need to learn that same lesson. None of these relatively small things are worth losing allies over.
IMO there's way too much punching among the right. Not that we need to toe a party line (Heaven keep us from that!), but I've gotten to the point, while listening or reading someone I heartily agree with, that I just drop out when they feel the need to snipe at someone who only 80% agrees (let alone the snipes for stupid matters of taste, ethnicity, or style).
I'm afraid I don't consider "being a dick" to be an admirable habit, nor a public performance to be applauded.
I dont think so. https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Mark-Pierce-ebook/dp/B0F7G1BXZ8