William Sanders: shooting himself in the foot since he learned how to speak!

[rachelmanija]

I realize that there are very serious issues going on here. But the sight of William Sanders digging himself in deeper and deeper has reached the point now, with his attempt at extorting money for the privelege of getting stories off his website, that it's also quite hilarious. He doesn't seem to have hit fandom wank yet, but he really should. Fandom wank was made for William Sanders.

PS. For the benefit of those not following the story, William Sanders edits an sf magazine called "Helix." He recently rejected a story in a letter which fulminated against Muslims in a crazy, offensive, bigoted, and totally unprofessional and also rabidly nutty manner. The author posted it. Outraged ensued. Several writers asked to remove their stories from the website. Sanders responded by writing them crazy, offensive, bigoted, and totally unprofessional and also rabidly nutty letters. (Paraphrase: "Your story sucked! I only published it because you're Asian-American! Neener neener dumpling!")

Then he demanded that they all pay him $ 40 if they wanted their stories gone. Context can be found via yhlee, ktempest, coffeeandink, and many more.

PPS. I shouldn't even have to say this, but don't even bother saying that Sanders was referring to terrorists, not Muslims in general. "Sheetheads" is an offensive religious and/or racial epithet even if he was referring specifically to terrorists (a defense which Nick Mamatas neatly debunks somewhere which I've lost.) For example, if you refer to Jews as "kikes," it is not a defense to say, "But I only meant that one Jew who held up a bank!" Even in that context, it is still a bigoted slur.

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[octopedingenue]

I will volunteer copy-and-paste coding time for a wiki of (legal) alternate links for Helix stories so that they may be read without paying Sanders either ad revenue or the $40 "fee" (which is among the most ridiculously bogus pieces of wankstrutting I have ever seen, and I would almost love to see this spawn legal battling and so have "pantiwadinous" enter public record).

[octopedingenue]

P.S. an earlier version of the wanksplosion hit unfunnybusiness, but I haven't seen updates with the current WTF.