On Elizabeth Moon, perceived anti-Muslim bigotry, and being uninvited as Guest of Honor at WisCon

WisCon prides itself as the leading Feminist Science Fiction convention (and
just happens to take place in Madison, WI, just up the road from where I
live). On 9/11/2010, sci-fi author Elizabeth Moon made a post that she
thought was even-minded and rational (and which touched on the proposed
mosque to be built near Ground Zero), but which quickly took a hard turn and
attracted a lot of heat. After a day or so of trying to defend herself, Moon
took down the long and heated comments thread. A month or more later, as a
result of the combination of her original post and her subsequent comments,
WisCon uninvited Moon, setting off a firestorm of discussion.

This is her original post: http://e-moon60.livejournal.com/335480.html

These are some followups:
WisCon Disinvites Gues-of-Honor Elizabeth
Moon<http://sf3.org/2010/10/elizabeth-moon/>.
Reactions from Eleanor
Arnason<http://eleanorarnason.blogspot.com/2010/10/elizabeth-moon.html>,
Mike Glyer <http://file770.com/?p=4591>, Cheryl
Morgan<http://www.cheryl-morgan.com/?p=9663>,
Lawrence Person <http://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=2744>, Cat
Valente<http://yuki-onna.livejournal.com/613791.html>,


Nancy Kress was late to the debate, but some of the best comments
after-the-fact have appeared here (I'd read Moon's post and go straight
here, in fact):
http://nancykress.blogspot.com/2010/10/late-to-debate.html

Will Shetterly:
http://shetterly.blogspot.com/2010/10/6-reasons-wiscon-should-not-have.html

Johne Cook
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