-I know a lot of you avoid Facebook so I thought I’d bring these here for you (plus, being here means it can’t be pulled or buried by the Xuckbots)
On the recent MarsCon kerfulffle, David Weber had some thoughts to share. Enjoy
– Jack.
So someone is screaming about what a horrible person Larry Correia is.
Sigh.
It would appear not much has changed â for some people at least — over the last five years. Including their bigotry, their stupidity, and their hatred. In fact, I see that â golly gee, who would’ve thunk it? â it’s one of the SAME people! Why am I not surprised? Teeny tiny minds find it difficult to cling to more than a handful of thoughts at a time, and their storage capacity is so limited that they dare not waste any of it on something like, oh, I don’t know â a NEW thought or concept. And God forbid that they waste any of their limited neurons on something resembling open-mindedness, fairness, courtesy, or moral scruple. Hypocrisy, veiled character assassination, and vituperation are so much easier, you see.
To save some time, I am reposting below something of mine from May of 2018. Some of you may well remember it from then; those of you who don’t will still find what it says familiar. Sharon Rice-Weber and I stand by what I said then.
I will add this, however.
We have come to know Larry even better in the intervening years, and we are PROUD to call him and Bridget Litchford Correia friends. They are among the most decent people we know. They are compassionate, generous-hearted, and â allegations of their enemies notwithstanding â extremely open-minded. I cannot begin to count the number of times that I have seen someone call Larry “misogynist” or a “white supremacist.” Leaving aside his Portuguese ancestry (which, I think, qualifies him as a “person of color” when someone is interested in validating him, as opposed to assassinating his character), I’ve MET Bridget and his daughters. As the father of two somewhat . . . strong-willed daughters of his own, I will tell you flat out that a misogynist doesn’t marry that woman, doesn’t CONVINCE that woman to marry HIM, and doesn’t RAISE those daughters. It just flat doesn’t happen.
Of course, it’s much easier to ignore that and just slap on a handy derogatory label.
It is completely fair to point out that Larry pulls no punches in debate, in person or online. In a PERSONAL discussion, I have never known him to reach for the nuclear option until missiles are already incoming from the other side. Powerfully assertive? Yes. Provide backup facts/arguments and demand the same in response? Oh, yeah! Dismissive of false arguments or unsupported allegations? Yep. Not worry about stepping on someone’s ideological toes? Damn betcha, Skippy! But the gleeful, sometimes brutal, devastating, and ALWAYS colorful responses to specious arguments and character assassination? That doesn’t usually turn up in PERSONAL debate until the aforesaid specious arguments and character assassination reach critical mass from the other side.
It’s also fair to point out that his threshold for DEFCON 1 is quite a bit lower than it used to be. That, however, has something to do with the number of times he has been viciously and dishonestly attacked. When you get sucker punched often enough, you start swinging back more quickly. And when people go after your family â as people have gone after Bridget and even Larry’s kids â you not only start swinging quickly, you use a baseball bat when you do.
Now, none of the above is to suggest that Larry isn’t perfectly capable of being as deliberately provocative, aggressive, and incendiary as anyone could possibly want in blog posts or polemical books, like his new volume on the Second Amendment. In those cases, however, he is attacking not any individual, but propositions he finds ludicrous, asinine, false, or destructive of values and beliefs he holds dear . . . and the GROUPS which support those propositions. If you decide to go read an avowedly political article or book, you really shouldn’t complain if the author is just a TAD emphatic and assertive.
But to suggest for one moment that Larry would BEGIN a personal confrontation, or that anyone would be personally unsafe in his presence, or that he would subject anyone to harassment â or tolerate anyone else’s doing that in an effort to support him â without first BEING harassed, is disingenuous, dishonest, and â frankly â a damned lie.
I am proud to call this man a friend. I don’t agree with all of his viewpoints, but what’s far more important to me is that he is unswervingly and fiercely honest in the views he holds, the vigor with which he defends them, and his willingness to grant other views space so long as those who hold them are prepared to do the same for him.
Sharon and I were not planning to attend the con, given our schedule and the travel constraints.
If at all possible, we will be there after all, however. We will be there to show our support for the convention, for Joel Lyons, and for Larry Correia
If you can tell more about a person’s character by the company he keeps, Sharon and I know whose company we’d like to be in next January.
Jack here again. So someone decided to weigh in on the comments section of Mr Weber’s post. To their surprise, Larry decided to reply to them directly. As always, Larry’s responses are in bold…
You know this dumb shit right here, says a lot more about the accuser, than the accused, right? I’m going to demonstrate to the audience exactly what kind of person you are, then afterwards you’ll cry more about my cruel bullying nature against super honest and unbiased good people. đ
{His choice to belittle investigations into the 1/6 insurrection,}
– Yeah, that was a fucking clown show. đ To see how Americans where I live feel about that Stalinistic show trial, check out Liz Cheney’s record shattering primary loss in my next door neighbor state.
{harp on conspiracy stories like the Hunter Biden notebook,}
– Hold on now. Every single thing I said about that “conspiracy” turned out to be perfectly accurate. Verified. Documented. Now confirmed. No longer in question.
Sorry. Just because it makes democrats look bad that doesn’t make a news story a conspiracy theory.
{and generally be an alt-right tool doesn’t make him appealing either.}
I’m not “alt” anything. My politics haven’t changed. Your loaded description is stupidly inaccurate.
{Likewise I regularly see him call people idiots, losers and worse}
And every one of you probably deserved it, Mr. Wade Into A Political Fray Being An Asshole Then Cry About Tone.
{he has no problems being misogynistic if one is a woman who supports abortion or a Democrat.}
Is it “misogynistic” when you abort the girl babies? Just checking.
Disagreeing with angry liberals women? Misogyny.
Killing female babies? No biggie.
{The writer here claims he only hits hard if hit first, but that’s definitely not true. Correia is constantly attacking.}
Declares the random asshole who shows up to write paragraphs about how horrible I am because a good friend of mine who I’ve known for many years said something positive about me on the internet. đ
{I liked his Hard Magic series. His Monster Hunter book (read 1st one) struck me as a Mary Sue story.}
My very first book struck you (obviously an honest literary genius) as a Mary Sue story, which then turned into an 8 book series with 3 spin offs (and more coming), which has sold millions of copies around the world… So apparently Mary Sue stories pay fucking awesome.
{I won’t be supporting him in any way by buying his books.}
Declared the guy who later claims to be reading my gun book which came out last week. He must have got a library copy.
{I guess if you don’t count him calling women whores, pussies, idiots, crack heads and other insults misogynistic ok.}
I think this dude has mistaken me for MadMike Williamson. đ The only person I’ve called one of those things in the last decade is Pearl the Vampire from File 770.
{I’m not giving him a dime otherwise, any more than I do Rowlings, Card, or the Goodkind or Bradley estates.}
And once again, that says a lot more about you than it does me.
Especially on the first two. I don’t know what Goodkind did to piss off liberals. And Bradley was one of you, and when people on my side first started talking about what a monster she was, your side complained that we were rude and insulting misogynists, at least until she became indefensible and then you suddenly flipped to condemnation. Moral consistency is not your side’s strong suit.
{His excuse that he has a long history of training women to shoot doesn’t make up for his antagonistic attitude he expresses daily.}
That only comes up because when the shit heads on your side decided to try and destroy my career, they needed to come up with some real life example of my dangerous misogyny that you dorks keep whinging on about. So the Guardian, a British newspaper, crowd sourced a witch hunt to go through everything I’d ever written or done to try and find examples of my alleged women hating. The ONLY thing they could find was that me teaching free self defense shooting classes for women was “victim blaming”.
And you fuckers pretend to be confused why I insult you. đ
{He was banned from Facebook for a time because of his insults and his cheering section is usually far worse.}
13 thirty days now, and still going strong! đ
{Perhaps you’re not personally that way, but you can’t attack women defending reproductive rights or gay or trans men using insults and not be tarnished with the brush of misogyny if you resort to childish taunts.}
Lol. When somebody comes in swinging, I don’t check their profile. I don’t ask them what their background is. I don’t know who is gay or trans or whatever. I honestly don’t give a shit. You could be every protected class in the history of the universe, but the only thing I care about is that everything you said is dumb and mockable. đ
But how is it, again, from you morally consistent types, that whenever I disagree with an angry liberal, that’s attacking (whatever group that person belongs to) but when my fans who are gay, trans, some minority group, whatever, respond to you guys, they’re just part of a [vicious] attack mob?
Hmmmmm… it is almost like there’s a pattern used by profoundly dishonest people like you.
Yep. I can’t possibly imagine why after a decade of this I just jump straight to the place where I know we’re gonna wind up anyway.
