Mercedes Lackey Ejected From Nebula Conference For Using Racial Slur

[The Myopic Sniper]

This is the same weekend she got named as a Grand Master. Their most prestigious award.

Statement on Removal of Mercedes Lackey from the Nebula Conference - SFWA

We are immediately removing Mercedes Lackey from the conference and the additional panels she was scheduled for, in accordance with SFWA’s Moderation Policy.

www.sfwa.org

 

[The Myopic Sniper]

Deleted for now. Waiting for press coverage.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Damn it.

 

[TerraDave]

 

[doctorbadwolf]

This is the same weekend she got named as a Grand Master. Their most prestigious award.

Statement on Removal of Mercedes Lackey from the Nebula Conference - SFWA

We are immediately removing Mercedes Lackey from the conference and the additional panels she was scheduled for, in accordance with SFWA’s Moderation Policy.

www.sfwa.org

I wish they’d indicated what she actually said, with censoring of course.

It’s gonna bug me.

Also dammit.

Edit: ok found out. Maybe I live in an oil town and I’m too used to this sort of thing, but i didn’t know that was classified as a slur. I know it’s not the preferred nomenclature, but it being a slur surprises me.

Still, it’s been outdated language, at least, for most of my life. I hope she makes a public apology.

 

[Parmandur]

Oh, "Colored?" Kind of bizarrely anachronistic, but is that actually a slur? My grandfather tended to use it, but he was a grown adult when the NCAAP was formed, so I think he was just using the word he thought was acceptable and polite.

 

[Parmandur]

I wish they’d indicated what she actually said, with censoring of course.

It’s gonna bug me.

Also dammit.

She called another writer "colored" during a panel.

 

[John R Davis]

She said the word " colored", and didn't realise she best not use such a word

 

[doctorbadwolf]

She called another writer "colored" during a panel.

Like I said upthread in an edit: “Maybe I live in an oil town and I’m too used to this sort of thing, but i didn’t know that was classified as a slur. I know it’s not the preferred nomenclature, but it being a slur surprises me.

Still, it’s been outdated language, at least, for most of my life. I hope she makes a public apology.”

 

[Parmandur]

Like I said upthread in an edit: “Maybe I live in an oil town and I’m too used to this sort of thing, but i didn’t know that was classified as a slur. I know it’s not the preferred nomenclature, but it being a slur surprises me.

Still, it’s been outdated language, at least, for most of my life. I hope she makes a public apology.”

Yeah, I mean, I came in the thread expecting M. A. R. Barker writing a Nazi novel levels of Scandal. Old person uses what was the correct term when she was young? Awkward and embarrassing, but Im6more relieved than scandalized.

But, yeah, I knew it wasn't in use anymore, but I hadn't ever heard it was a slur. Given that People or Person of Color is common now, thst she got a wired crossed with her youth. She's in her 70's.