Early this morning, Fan Expo Canada banned Honey Badger Brigade (HBB) from the Calgary Comics and Entertainment Expo (CalEx).  Security staff approached the HBB booth, ordered us to leave, and refused to state the reason why unless Alison Tieman agreed to speak to them away from the other members of the group, without recording.  They informed Alison that they had received complaints on social media, including 25 allegations of harassment.  No evidence was presented, no request was made for information from HBB, and no specific incident was cited until further questions were asked of security. 



Upon further questioning, security mentioned the Women in Comics panel discussion from the previous day, where Alison was given permission to speak.  Alison spoke briefly in relation to a topic brought up by the panelists.  Accusers, however, claimed that Alison derailed the conversation.  Alison and myself were in attendance, and you can listen to Alison’s statement in the panel here on YouTube.  You can hear Alison, myself and indeed the entire panel in the full discussion record. 



As you will hear, there was no harrassment.  Expo staff and mob rule, in their crusade for ending harassment against women, harassed the Honey Badgers despite having no evidence of any policy violation. 

The SJWs came for the Honey Badger Brigade yesterday:This is what we are up against.  This is why I will never back down, why I will never ever apologize for thinking, speaking, and writing freely.  This is why I am the Leader of #GamerGate and why you should be too. The real crime of the Honey Badger Brigade, for which they were successfully attacked, was not "reportedly disrupting panels", but rather "associating with GamerGate". Think about it.  A group of women were just harassed and driven out of a convention for being guilty by association.  And the SJWs claim that we are the intolerant ones, we are the uncivil ones, we are the ones harassing women, we are the ones trying to drive others from the public discourse.  Meanwhile, the moderates claim that the problem is our tone, that we're simply not being nice enough, that if only we didn't express our "problematic" views but kept them quietly to ourselves, everything would be all right. Horseshit.  Absolute and unadulteratedNotice that they wanted to isolate Alison, and speak to her away from the others and without recording.  Sound familiar?  Let's assume, for the sake of argument, that I am an arrogant, cruel, and ruthless badthinker who eminently deserves every "shitbag" "asshat" "jackass" "dipshit" insult and every denigrating and disqualifying "mentally unbalanced" "racist" "misogynist" "sexist" "anti-Semitic" "homophobic" "Nazi" "white supremacist" description that has been hurled my way by SJWs from New York City to New Zealand for the last 10 years.  Even if all of those accusations were perfectly true, how would that explain the coordinated assault on the Honey Badger Brigade?Did that take place in response to me?  If I was just a little nicer, if my rhetoric dripped with pure honey rather than pure contempt, if I lovingly laved Teresa Nielsen-Hayden's warty folds with my tongue and dutifully nominated John Scalzi and Charles Stross and Patrick Nielsen-Hayden for awards so those three giants of modern science fiction could add to their collective total of 39 Hugo nominations (only 8 more than Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Clarke combined), would that have somehow prevented the Honey Badgers from being attacked by SJWs and expelled from Calgary Expo?This is a cultural war, everyone.  And if you're not fighting it, you're losing it.  The reason the SJWs went after the Honey Badger Brigade instead of #GamerGate is the same reason they went after Sad Puppies instead of Rabid Puppies.  The more publicly acceptable the face of their opposition, the more they are determined to silence and separate it from their most implacable opponents. It didn't work with Larry and Brad.  It won't work with the Honey Badgers either. # GamerGate will not abandon them.  What do you say, Rabid Puppies?  What do you say, Dread Ilk?Support the Honey Badgers and join the #GamerGate email campaign against the sponsors of Calgary Expo.  Send one email, just one polite little email, to start.  I have.  That's all it takes... because we are legion. 

Labels: #GamerGate, SJW