Actually, I HAVE met Orson Scott Card at that Boskone where he was the guest of honor. I found that I could deal with him just fine socially for short periods of time so long as we didn't talk about anything. If an actual conversation seemed like it would break out, I would just excuse myself and go elsewhere.
I avoided his GoH speech and any panels he was on. And with that, I was fine. Some of my friends avoided the con -- and Vericon this past year where he was also a guest -- and I do sympathize with their point of view. But I went to that Boskone, and I would have gone to that Vericon, if I ever went to Vericon. The presense of a guest whose beliefs I find distasteful will not prevent me from going somewhere, most of the time, nor will it, most of the time, prevent me from having reasonably civil discourse with that guest, nor will it, most of the time, prevent me from enjoying that person's work.
Most of the time. I don't claim that this would universally be true for me, or that it should be true for anyone else.
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I avoided his GoH speech and any panels he was on. And with that, I was fine. Some of my friends avoided the con -- and Vericon this past year where he was also a guest -- and I do sympathize with their point of view. But I went to that Boskone, and I would have gone to that Vericon, if I ever went to Vericon. The presense of a guest whose beliefs I find distasteful will not prevent me from going somewhere, most of the time, nor will it, most of the time, prevent me from having reasonably civil discourse with that guest, nor will it, most of the time, prevent me from enjoying that person's work.
Most of the time. I don't claim that this would universally be true for me, or that it should be true for anyone else.
But I don't