Again, Orson Scott Card

Well. I was getting ready to post another quote from Orson Scott Card's "The Originist," and I was starting to think I really needed to read some more OSC, since he seemed like a pretty wise fellow. But in my Googling around I came upon a reference to his "offensive" beliefs. I had no idea what that meant...and I thought that I probably should have a clue, since I'd read two novels and 1/2 of a long short story by him. Usually that stuff flashes out like shining from shook foil. Which is an ironic thing for me to say, since the quote I was thinking about posting was this:

"Nobody can lie for long about who they really are. Not even to themselves."

ANYway. I thought about it, and then I Googled "Orson Scott Card's Obnoxious Beliefs." And one of the first hits was an article from Wired * by one Rachel Edidin entitled "Orson Scott Card: Mentor, Friend, Bigot." There were several potent lines, but I think this was the big cut:

"Card's hate has come to color my experience of his fiction -- as, I think, it should. Neither fiction nor its creators exist in a vacuum; nor is the choice to consume art or support an artist morally neutral. Orson Scott Card is monstrously homophobic; he's racist; he advocates violence and lobbies against fundamental human rights and equates criticism of those stances with his own hate speech." 

Oh. Wow. And then I looked around a bit more and found this on  Wikipedia:

"In an August 2013 essay called 'The Game of Unlikely Events', which Card presented as an experiment in fiction-writing, Card described an alternative future in which President Barack Obama ruled as a 'Hitler-or Stalin-style dictator' with his own national police force of young unemployed men; Obama and his wife Michelle would have amended the U.S. Constitution to allow presidents to remain in power for life, as in Nigeria, Zimbabwe, and Nazi Germany. In the essay, first published in The Rhinocerous Times, Card attributed Obama's success to being a 'black man who talks like a white man (that's what they mean by calling him 'articulate' and a 'great speaker')."(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card)

So. 

Wow.

I think I'm finished with Orson Scott Card now.

* Wired.com, actually: CULTURE 10.31.2013 09:30 AM (https://www.wired.com/2013/10/enders-game/).