man i'm sorry to hear that. i suppose i should clarify & say that the things i saw in the latest blow up were mainly by westerners incl myself & that by deliberate omission or ignorance ppl didn't think to look (once again incl myself bc of my lacking language skills)
Sorry, I didn't mean to give you grief, but the events of the past week already had me wondering why I bothered spending so much time over the past 6 (?) months on this stuff, and then the idea that I might as well not have bothered - aarrgh; long, long day....
This is maybe unfair, it feels like only now the bloody Hugos (which frankly I couldn't give a **** about) have been messed around with that people are paying attention to stuff I raised ages ago, and some of the Chinese fans long before that.
No-one seemed to care about the segregated hotel arrangements where (simplification) all the Anglophone invited guests were put up in the brand new hotel near the con, and all the non Anglo and domestic invitees (inc Hugo finalists) were put up much much further away
I wanna say here that it was only because of ErsatzCulture transmitting voices from Weibo to File770 that I thought to check over there! NGL as a diaspora Asian I was like, “I feel embarrassed about my language skills so I’m scared to navigate Weibo,” but seeing EC do it was a big inspiration
So, thank you for your long memory and all the work you put in, and for archiving all of this info and doing your best to boost the unheard voices of Chinese SFF fans!
don't be scared or embarrassed. you did the right thing... also if there's anything i know it's that this shit (the hugos, people screaming insane things about them) really doesn't matter wrt people's careers
