beatrice_otter: Me in red--face not shown (0)
beatrice_otter ([personal profile] beatrice_otter) wrote 2019-09-09 02:29 am (UTC)

Personally, I don't think that Huntington supposedly wanting it is justification enough - my grandmother has been making comments about wanting to die for several years now, that doesn't mean I have the right to go put strychnine in her tea. Murder is murder.

Good way of putting it.

And more than that - and the more relevant thing, I think - is what kind of message keeping her name on the award sends to disabled people in particular.

On the other hand, pretty much everybody who knew anything about Campbell knew what a horrible person he could be about race and gender and authority, because it was a huge part of his role in the SF/F community. It's possible to be a huge Tiptree fan and not know anything about how she killed herself and her disabled husband. A lot of people (including myself) had never known about the murder/suicide before this discussion started. It's a lot less clear a message than having awards named after Campbell.

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