Which means that people should stop boycotting it as a matter of principle. As it happens, there are two features of D*C that would prevent me from going there as a matter of taste (too big, not my community), but were I likely to go, Mr. Kramer's involvement would no longer be a blocker.
It is right to boycott on principle when it means something. Boycotting D*C on principle did affect their bottom line and hence Kramer's defense fund. I've heard people wanting to boycott Worldcon because of things the Texas government has said or done and that doesn't work because Worldcon's are a drop in the state bucket. Even if the entire con didn't show, the state would hardly notice. The impact of individual boycotts on Kramer is at a very different scale. But equally so, once the boycott has achieved what it set out to do (or it was achieved in some other way), it is time to lay down the arms. Too often have I seen people with justified boycotts hang on to that anger long past when it should have been let go. Best, Glenn On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Deirdre Saoirse Moen <deir...@deirdre.net>wrote: > Breaking news: Kramer and DragonCon have gotten a divorce. > > http://t.co/GGw2BtgEfR > > -- > Deirdre Saoirse Moen > deir...@deirdre.net > > On Sun, Jul 7, 2013, at 09:41 AM, Tom Becker wrote: > > At 12:26 AM -0700 7/7/13, David Speakman wrote: > > > > > >As for the volunteers: The libertarian in me says that if volunteers > > >are willing to work for free membership and T-Shirt - then there is > > >no harm since they willingly do it. But the dyed-in-the-wool > > >pro-union liberal in me yells at the libertarian side of me to shut > > >up and says shame on me being an uncaring creep. (The conservative > > >side of me was exiled in a bloodless coup three decades ago and has > > >not been heard from since.) > > > > Kudos to your sides for getting along as well as they do, including > > the conservative side. A real conservative understands the value of > > not messing with something that's working. > > > > As for the volunteers, I'm writing this from Westercon where we > > volunteers paid for our memberships and don't even get a free > > T-shirt. But we're not being exploited; it's just a shoestring > > operation that we are doing for the enjoyment of our fellow fen, and > > because we're basically nuts. > > > > Tom > > > > -- > > Tom Becker <t...@fanac.com> > > Potlatch n. A science fiction convention where readers and > > writers meet on common ground. http://potlatch-sf.org > > _______________________________________________ > > Basfa mailing list > > Basfa@lists.basfa.org > > http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org > _______________________________________________ > Basfa mailing list > Basfa@lists.basfa.org > http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org >
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