This kind of behaviour
But wait, there’s more! (I didn’t wait. Wasn’t possible. I couldn’t leave that bit of Emptyspeak unmocked for one second.)
It’s genius, isn’t it?
WHAT KIND OF BEHAVIOR??
Did they forget, between the second tweet and the third, that they hadn’t said what “kind of behaviour” they were talking about? The word “remarks” doesn’t quite cover it. We can’t believe they would never knowingly book an artist known for making remarks. There must be something specific about the remarks that they disapprobate, but they haven’t said what that something is.
Trans ideology makes people stupid.
It’s funny how we automatically know from the phrasing that the Wrongspeak was a) about trans, and b) mild and completely innocuous. This is because if they’d said anything that was actually bad, it would have been shared in great and painstaking detail.
The reason they likely didn’t say anything specific is to avoid a potential lawsuit. There was a case in the U.S. where a science fiction convention (Worldcon) in 2018 revoked the membership of a writer deemed to be bigoted and they gave details about that individual and his offensive actions. That individual sued for defamation and the convention had to settle out of court for damages in 2021.
Still, there had to be a formal agreement between the festival and an act to perform there, and to renege on that based on nothing more than “someone said something we didn’t like” is not just unprofessional, it’s an opportunity cost for the act. Although I do expect the act to be outed by those who complained about them, as that’s what the cool kids do these days.
JA, was that the awful Vic Mignogna (an anime voice actor) or someone different? If Vic, I don’t know about the Con, but he used truely incompetent lawyers to sue some other voice actors, one of their boyfriends, and one of his employers for defamation and a bunch of other stuff including interference with his appearances at Cons. He was also silly enough to do it in Texas, which apparently has a pretty good anti-slap law. He lost. Comprehensively. All the way up to the Court of Appeal. Greg Doucette and a bunch of other very online lawyers followed the whole thing for years in a massive Twitter thread called the Threadnought. Never a good thing when an Appeals Court decision says you committed sexual assault and skeeved on little girls.