When I worked in Silicon Valley, I knew computer execs who couldn't, or just plain wouldn't, figure out how to use a computer, and were perfectly happy to leave those tasks up to their secretaries. Never confuse a product with its producer. Minkowitz was truly the naive one in this equation. I've read at least a half dozen of Card's books, plus various reviews, columns and essays he's written. Although I don't agree with many of his beliefs, none of Card's quotes in Minkowitz's article particularly surprised me.
Card is both outspoken and prolific.
Idolizing any fellow writer is a dangerous habit for a journalist. To get up on your high horse when an author's personality doesn't jibe with your willfully idealized vision of him or her strikes me as foolish in the extreme. Her interview with Orson Scott Card is all about herself. While I realize that's partly the point, I find it self-indulgent and much less entertaining than a serious talk with Card by a less prejudiced writer would have been. The rhetoric sounds very empty indeed after such a juvenile display of name-calling and demonizing.