Ági Szabados Does Not Need to Apologize to Me
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Ági Szabados Does Not Need to Apologize to Me
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#2I really enjoy Scalzi’s books, and to the point: it is nice of him to try to take the heat off of a young content creator who has helped promote his works.
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#3I have a lot of respect for this. It would be so easy for him to just ignore the situation, not get involved. It is after all some controversy in a far away place in a different language/culture. Despite being "about" him, he arguably has nothing really to do with it. He does not need to be involved; he can walk away.
Instead he tries to stop the inernet mob from demonizing someone in his name who did nothing to deserve it. We should all aspire to act that way when thrown in such a situation.
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#4I really enjoy Scalzi’s books, and to the point: it is nice of him to try to take the heat off of a young content creator who has helped promote his works.
Did you read the article? She runs one of the biggest bookclubs in Hungary. That comment seems a little patronising. :)
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#6As far as I can tell, the story here is that
1. the person tasked with introducing an author talked more about her own initiative (getting people to read more) than the author;
2. the person was criticised for this; and
3. the author wants people to know that he doesn't mind not being talked about because he likes reading too, and he doesn't feel he needs help promoting himself.
So far, so boring. There's also some mysterious implication that the criticism was due to some kind of undercurrents in Hungarian politics. Is this another tedious culture war thing?
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#7Are there any Hungarians here who can enlighten us about what was controversial?
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#9I really don't understand how we are supposed to deal with this modern outrage culture
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#10Are there any Hungarians here who can enlighten us about what was controversial?
Author was the guest of honour for the opening panel of a book festival. An influencer was also present on the panel, and was expected to converse with the author. The influencer promoted herself instead of conversing the author. People who were there to learn about the author got outraged and demanded the influencer to apologize. The influencer apologized. The author says he wasn't offended, and doesn't think there was anything wrong.