Opinion: When Writers Punch — Up, Down, or Sideways

Cat Rambo
8 min readMar 1, 2021

This is, I hope, my final followup to earlier pieces on reactions to Jason Sanford’s post identifying hate-speech and similar posts in a specific forum of Baen’s Bar, Politics, and the subsequent DisCon action in removing Baen’s leader, Toni Weisskopf, as an Editor Guest of Honor. I want to address a specific phenomenon, which is writers punching people who displease them via their readers, which has been directed at Jason Sanford.

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Cat Rambo

World Fantasy and Nebula-nominated speculative fiction writer/editor. I read and write a lot.