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Originally Posted by Nate the great
And how is that bad? It sounds like a sensible business move to me.
OSC avoids writing about topics that will piss people off. Frankly, i find him less offensive than John Ringo and I actually agree with Ringo's politics.
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It's not bad in itself, and the homophobia in his books, which is very subtle, has nothing to do with why I boycott him. I don't read or recommend his books because of the sex-negativity and self-negating collectivism; I don't buy his books because of his political views, which I find so antithetical to my own life that I don't want to give him any money, even indirectly.
Ringo's on my list of "authors never to bother reading." That's hypothetically changeable, but it's not likely I'll run out of "authors I want to read but haven't found time/money for" when/if Ringo changes his writing style. (Which I don't expect, because he's making plenty of money with his current system.) There are thousands of authors I have no interest in that I don't keep track of, which I assume holds true for everyone. I'm consciously aware of Ringo because his name shows up on lists with authors I do want to read.