Not all heroes wear capes. The heroes of East Coast Comicon hide in safe spaces. And no conservatives are allowed.
East Coast Comicon promoter Cliff Galbraith bragged on Facebook about turning Kevin Sorbo away from Comicon in New Jersey this year based on Sorbo's relationship with conservative talk show host Sean Hannity.
“I turned down Kevin Sorbo for East Coast Comicon,” organizer Galbraith wrote on Facebook over the weekend. “He’s pals with Sean Hannity. Just can’t do it.”
"Ah, the lovely Lefties who scream for tolerance and freedom of speech," Sorbo told PJM. "Too bad it is all a one-way street for them. They need their little safe spaces because I am too scary to them. I would love to debate these socialists who hate people who work hard for a living and want Big Government to baby them through their pathetic lives."
Cliff Galbraith, advertised last year’s event with a comic art poster featuring the Statue of Liberty wrapped in terms like “homophobia,” “misogyny,” “racism,” “xenophobia,” “voter suppression,”
Sorbo has been a well-liked figure at geek conventions throughout the United States, but like “Firefly” and “The Last Ship” star Adam Baldwin, Sorbo now suffers from exclusion simply because of heightened enmity toward conservatives among the progressive left.
You may know Kevin Sorbo as Hercules. Or from the movie, God's Not Dead. His latest movie is, Let There Be Light. He's a talented actor and a director. A quick look at East Coast Comicon's media lineup also makes it really clear that it's their loss. And the loss of anyone going to this thing. Not Sorbo's loss.
Kevin Sorbo, like Adam Baldwin and Nick Searcy, are thriving. It's the left's safe spaces that are losing ground. Conventions were already struggling even before the left decided to politicize everything. And the left's civil wars are burning down what's left of the comics industry and science fiction. and these purges inevitably turn on their own.
Just ask Neil Gaiman or Joss Whedon, once the objects of worship for the Trigglypuff crowd.
I was seriously disappointed in the people, some of whom I know and respect, who stirred other people up to send invective, obscenities and hatred Jonathan's way over Twitter (and the moment you put someone's @name into a tweet, you are sending it directly to that person), much of it the kind of stuff that they seemed to be worried that he might possibly say at the Hugos, unaware of the ironies involved.
I have won Hugo Awards, and I am incredibly proud of all of them; I've hosted the Hugo Awards ceremony, and I was honoured to have been permitted to be part of that tradition; I know that SF is a family, and like all families, has disagreements, fallings out. I've been going to Worldcons since 1987. And I know that these things heal in time.
But I've taken off the Hugo nominee pin that I've worn proudly on my lapel since my Doctor Who episode, The Doctor's Wife, won the Hugo in September 2012, and, for now, I've put it away.
No matter how to the left you are, eventually they will come for you. And eventually there will only be the smallest safe space. A safe space of one.