Re:From what I've read... (Score 1)

I'm not the person you're replying to -- nor had I heard of this controversy until this article -- but it's quite clear to me that Vox Dey (Theodore Beale) has used arguments that are straight out of far-right racist diatribes. Defending himself against the charge of being a racist, he called his opponent (a black woman) a "half-savage" and went on a rant about how societies founded by white men were more civilized than those founded by Africans. This is the exact language you find on Stormfront. There is no doubt in my mind that he's using racist arguments he got from racist sources.

I'm not familiar with the other authors involved with Sad Puppies, but the fact that Beale is among their supporters does not bode well. If they really aren't racist, they should distance themselves from him and anyone else espousing similar arguments. The idea that charges of racism are baseless slander is transparently false.