BasedCon Planning for Dozens of Attendees

BasedCon – A based sci-fi con, organized by author Robert Kroese to appeal to the “sci-fi writer or fan who is sick of woke politics,” is planned for September 17-19 near Grand Rapids, Michigan.

The list of confirmed guests includes two-time Prometheus Award-winner Travis J.I. Corcoran, Robert Kroese, J.A. Sutherland, Hans Schantz, Jason Anspach*, Milo James Fowler, J. Daniel Sawyer, Dan Gainor, and Nick Cole* (asterisk indicates attending virtually).

On the BasedCon website, Kroese explains what “based” means to him and why his con has that name.

Why “BasedCon”?

In internet parlance, “based” means something like “in touch with reality.” Based behavior is the opposite of social justice activism, which is about meaningless virtue signaling and beating up strawmen. Some based beliefs include:

  • Men cannot give birth
  • Guns don’t kill people; people kill people
  • A fetus is a human being
  • Socialism has failed everywhere it’s been tried
  • Discriminating against white people is racism

BasedCon isn’t about pushing any particular ideology, but honest conversations have to start with a shared understanding of reality. If you think people with a certain skin color can’t be racist or you expect people to use made-up pronouns when talking about you, you may want to do a reality check before coming to BasedCon.

The BasedCon “About” page also devotes several paragraphs to the now-familiar “lost cause” genre narrative, for example —

Sci-fi cons used to be a lot of fun. They were places where people of all colors and creeds could get together to talk and learn about science fiction and fantasy books, games, movies, and TV shows. Then, starting a few years ago, things changed. Cons became increasingly dominated by a small clique of authoritarian jerks who made them into venues for pushing social justice dogma and, in the name of “inclusiveness,” shut down any opinions that didn’t align with progressive orthodoxy. You may remember the Sad Puppies saga, which culminated in WorldCon voters selecting “No Award” in several categories of the Hugo Awards rather than reward people outside their tribe…

Venue: BasedCon 2021 will be held at a privately owned property in Norton Shores, Michigan. How many people are they expecting to attract?

We have nine bedrooms onsite with 2-3 beds per room. If you prefer a private room, you can stay at one of the hotels nearby

Here are some tweets from earlier in the year when Kroese was still searching for a place to hold the event:

Here is some of the social media reaction, both favorable and unfavorable.

[Thanks to Anne Marble for the story.]

100 thoughts on “BasedCon Planning for Dozens of Attendees

  1. I’m not sure he realizes none of us “woke” (ie, not asleep) genre lovers care if a small group of puppies jam themselves into a bunch of flea bitten motels so they can spend a weekend moaning about how hard it is for them to tolerate a more open and diverse fandom. More power to them. Hopefully that’ll keep them out of the other cons so we can enjoy them more.

  2. Those tweets get more and more cringe-worthy. And aren’t some of them really just “virtue signalling” for Sad Puppies?

    More power to them and all that. I’m sure they will have fun. But I thought SF was already fun. I had fun reading Murderbot. At first, I stayed away because of the name (silly me). Then I (gasp) read the first novella. And the next one and so forth.

  3. Jeff Reynolds says I’m not sure he realizes none of us “woke” (ie, not asleep) genre lovers care if a small group of puppies jam themselves into a bunch of flea bitten motels so they can spend a weekend moaning about how hard it is for them to tolerate a more open and diverse fandom. More power to them. Hopefully that’ll keep them out of the other cons so we can enjoy them more.

    Do puppies ever attention Worldcons and such? Yes, I know that they keep kvetching about the cons ad nuaseum but do they ever actually attend them? I’m seriously doubting that they do.

    I’m happy to note that not a single writer listed as taking part in this is in my digital library. A library that resembles a cat collecting and hiding away in corners whatever has caught its fancy over a long life.

  4. I hope they have fun. Seriously. And starting small is a good plan. No going into debt for facilities a brand new con can’t make good use of.

  5. Anne Marble on July 13, 2021 at 12:18 pm said: But I thought SF was already fun. I had fun reading Murderbot. At first, I stayed away because of the name (silly me). Then I (gasp) read the first novella. And the next one and so forth.

    Oh yeah, those novellas and novellas are wonderful! I haven’t read the latest yet, but it’s on my list. There’s so much good stuff out there these days, and it’s TONS of fun! I just finished The Calculating Stars and its follow up novel, which I adored. Oh, and Harrow the Ninth, which was…well.. A GOOD read, but man… what a ride after enjoying Gideon.

    The world of SFF is just exploding with awesome these days. A shame these folks don’t seem to want to enjoy it for what it is. I’d chock it up to “getting old”, but I’m getting old and I think it’s incredible.

  6. Cat Eldridge on July 13, 2021 at 12:20 pm said:

    I’m happy to note that not a single writer listed as taking part in this is in my digital library. A library that resembles a cat collecting and hiding away in corners whatever has caught its fancy over a long life.

    Yeah, they probably don’t attend most of them. But I don’t know since, much as you said, none of these people are at all familiar to me. They certainly don’t show up on my book shelves either.

  7. Jeff Reynolds says Yeah, they probably don’t attend most of them. But I don’t know since, much as you said, none of these people are at all familiar to me. They certainly don’t show up on my book shelves either.

    I don’t read much in the way of MilSF and libertarian SF but I do keep an eye on it out of sheer curiosity. None of these names are in the least way familiar to me.

    The idea that oppressed by the woke end of the SF community is sheer insanity as I truly believe that hardly no one knows that they even exist.

  8. I do have one Kroese book, Out of the Soylent Planet, in my digital library, because it sounded goofy enough to possibly be entertaining. I think it was on sale, either free or 99 cents. It’s never quite made it to the top of my TBR pile for actual reading, a dusty fate it shares with hundreds of other books.

    For the record, I’m part of a bi-gender couple. Nothing wrong with that, but it seems kind of weird.

  9. Somewhat regrettably, I am busy that weekend. Wedding plans.

    Hope they have fun.

    Regards,
    Dann
    Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome. – Isaac Asimov

  10. I was reading the author bios:

    “After a childhood in academia, J. Daniel Sawyer declared his independence by dropping out of high school…”

    Had no idea kindergarten and grade school were “academia”.

  11. I’ve honestly never heard of any of those writers, and a quick Google search reveals that nobody else has, either. Seriously, all these guys are self-published, so that should tell you something.

  12. Iain days I’ve honestly never heard of any of those writers, and a quick Google search reveals that nobody else has, either. Seriously, all these guys are self-published, so that should tell you something.

    I suspect that their sales make JDA look in comparison the best selling author that he has claimed that he is.

  13. “Nobody loves us, everybody hates us, we’re gonna go eat Worms!”

    As in the Diet of Worms, which created a lot of trouble and gave European Christianity a near-fatal case of indigestion.

    As a political moderate who also enjoys much of SF’s past works and who honors the works of the Futurians, all I can see here is a revival of the ancient quarrel between that group and several sticks-in-the-mud who have been amply named elsewhere. There is room in our genre for just about everything except sloppy writing.

    As for the five points of the “Based” manifesto (or whatever it is), I have a bone to pick with every one of them. And yet, I am a center-left moderate, not a far-left crazy.

  14. Jeanne (Sourdough) Jackson notes As for the five points of the “Based” manifesto (or whatever it is), I have a bone to pick with every one of them. And yet, I am a center-left moderate, not a far-left crazy.

    The first point is just plain dumb, Heinlein not withstanding. And the rest are not ones that I ever want to have a conversation about with anyone Of their persuasionunder any circumstances. And like you, I’ve not been far left ever in my life.

  15. Okay, having got the snark out of my system, this is what concerns me about pretty much all these efforts: They tend to define themselves more by what they’re not than what they are or want to be. There’s very little sense of celebration to “we’re not [x]”, very little joy in “we don’t do [y]”, very little healthy community to be built around negativity.

    There will always be implicit criticism when you’re trying to do something differently, but when you centre it, the appeal is going to be limited to those who agree with you that x and y are no good horrible very bad fans/fannish behaviours, and I’m not sure there’s a whole heck of a lot of healthy, productive, fannish joy and longevity in getting together to complain about x and y.

    Maybe they’ll manage to transition to a more positive, pro-fannish attitude when they’re more established, one that allows them to stay the distance. I hope so. LibertyCon is perhaps a good model. But the Puppies withered on the vine when they tried to move from grievance to celebration, so I have my doubts.

    PS. Peeps, whether you’ve heard of someone or not doesn’t dictate their worth (it can suggest their larger appeal/crowd-drawing potential, but even that is limited by the possibility that they might be popular with a crowd you’re not in). Nor do their publishing choices. Or their ability to afford nice accommodations.

  16. They’re already in a series of weird undignified Twitter fights with people so it’s exactly the caliber of people you would expect.

  17. I went to their website because I was curious about what events they were planning, and I noted something odd. Out of 15 panels listed, 7 of them are on topics that are only interesting if you are, or intend to be, a SFF writer. So if I am just a fan with no desire to write about half of the events are of no interest to me. (Yes, it is possible to be interested in listening to writers talk about how they create the stories I’m reading, but topics like Crowdfunding Your Novel or Advertising On Amazon are not what I do to a SF con for.)

  18. Nancy Sauer says I went to their website because I was curious about what events they were planning, and I noted something odd. Out of 15 panels listed, 7 of them are on topics that are only interesting if you are, or intend to be, a SFF writer. So if I am just a fan with no desire to write about half of the events are of no interest to me. (Yes, it is possible to be interested in listening to writers talk about how they create the stories I’m reading, but topics like Crowdfunding Your Novel or Advertising On Amazon are not what I do to a SF con for.)

    I think they have a fundamental misunderstanding of what a con is. A con is a community in which fans and writers engage in conversation, not a place that business in really get done. Oh I bet business gets done st almost every con but it’s incidental not by design.

    Being for the most part bottom feeders, they’re inclined to see everything as a financial necessity first and foremost. They don’t see a con as just being a time where folks come together for the sake of just having conversations.

    (My website host wants to know regularly why I’m not interested in making money off my site. Same principle. Money isn’t always important.)

  19. I rather reluctantly admit that one of the best times I ever had in my life, other than my wedding and honeymoon, was a small neo-pagan event I once attended thirty-five years ago with 40 or 50 other souls. Lots of hallucinogens, interesting conversations about how we could very well be the wave of the future, staying up too late, painting my face like David Bowie on the Aladdin Sane cover, listening to bad Hawkwind bootlegs, etc. Of course it turned out that we were not, in fact, the wave of the future. But still, a really good time.

    I do hope the attendees of this con enjoy themselves as much as I did lo those many years ago.

  20. @Cat Eldridge
    They seem to be more interested in making money than in writing good books or getting together with people who like to read books. So: puppy-adjacent.

  21. I get the vibe of the kind of self-published mediocrity who attends fannish cons in order to get on panels, then at each panel, stack up copies of all their books and try to turn every comment into an excuse to push their book. (And some of them claim they’ve been told by their “agents” that this is the only reason pros come to cons.)

  22. @Nancy Sauer

    Between that and the Puppies and the various abortive attempts to form groups in opposition to the SFWA there does seem to be a heavy focus on professionals – and generally lead by professionals – rather than fannishness for fannishness’ sake when it comes to right wing fandom organising.

    (Although on the subject of crowdfunding it breaks my heart every time I come across an aspiring author on Kickstarter trying to raise funds for “their share” of the publishing costs after they’ve been preyed on by some unscrupulous “publisher”, so I hope they’ll be warning people as part of that panel.)

  23. P J Evans says They seem to be more interested in making money than in writing good books or getting together with people who like to read books. So: puppy-adjacent.

    And like JDA, they have a deep rooted misunderstanding of the publishing industry. The publishing houses are not hostile to conservative or traditional ideas or values, they’re just not interested in anything that they don’t think will sell well. That’s how capitalism works. Like a finicky cat who turns her nose up at a dish of food she doesn’t like, they won’t touch anything that they think won’t appeal to a lot of readers. Hell Night Shade publish Neal Asher whose not by any means means a SJW but his Polity novels sell well. .

  24. Cat Eldridge said: “And like JDA, they have a deep rooted misunderstanding of the publishing industry. They’re not hostile to conservative or traditional ideas or values, they’re just not interested in anything that they don’t think will sell well.”

    Funnily enough ( or not) I just came across this idea in my re-reading of “Logic of Empire” where the guy who wrote the ‘expose’ of the conditions on Venus was accusing the last publisher that would see him of kow-towing to the powers that be because he wouldn’t print his book.

    Also, I wonder where he got the idea that he was “center-left”?

  25. Michael J. Lowrey says I get the vibe of the kind of self-published mediocrity who attends fannish cons in order to get on panels, then at each panel, stack up copies of all their books and try to turn every comment into an excuse to push their book. (And some of them claim they’ve been told by their “agents” that this is the only reason pros come to cons.)

    As I said above, they’ve no idea that cons are really about community. They think everything is a matter of how much money can be made.

  26. It sounds like a less-polished version of a 20BooksTo50K conference (where they are still apparently whining about being deprived of the Nebula Awards they “deserved”) aimed at self-published authors. The “Based” beliefs listed, however, sound like a fundamentalist religious manifesto rather than a list of author/fan goals, which is kind of bizarre.

    As Meredith says, a con based on “We Hate This, and We Oppose That” doesn’t sound much like a celebration of anything – but if it meets their idea of fun and they enjoy it, I think it’s great. At least it’s doing something other than bothering fan conventions with their constant self-promotion and bigotry, or trying to brigade fan awards for themselves.

  27. @Cat Eldridge
    “If money’s all you want, then money’s all you’ll get.” A fictional princess-general

  28. And yet, I am a center-left moderate, not a far-left crazy.
    Haven’t you heard? The current view of their part is that moderate right is actually extreme left and anything to the left of that doesn’t bear mentioning.

    Also, for people who natter on and on about putting the fun back in SF, there certainly seems to be an awful lot of shoot-em-up violent war porn going on there.

  29. I’ve never made the decision to attend or not attend a convention based solely on the advertised guests, If they’re good folks, that’s just a bonus (and I’ve often found writers or artists I never heard of to be quite friendly and interesting once I talked to them). Some of my fondest memories are of smaller gatherings. The 2014 DeepSouthCon, for instance, only had about 50 attendees, but there were four parties Saturday night and I was a happy camper attending what was mostly a single track of programming there. The fun you have at a convention is largely dependent on you and other attendees wanting to have a good time. Going over the BasedCon website, I can say I would like to attend just to see how it turns out. Unfortunately, there are financial and travel constraints that will prohibit this.

  30. I won’t be able to attend – but I hope the Con is successful and everyone has a good time. SF/F should has a huge tent, and there’s room enough underneath for everyone.

  31. I suspect that their sales make JDA look in comparison the best selling author that he has claimed that he is.

    Nick Cole and Jason Anspach are pretty successful, probably the most successful of the self-published puppy/puppy adjacent authors, because their Galaxy’s Edge series appeals to audiences beyond the puppy sphere.

    J.A. Sutherland I vaguely know and I wouldn’t have pegged him for a puppy type. Travis Corcoran won the Prometheus Award with a novel where the blurb made me roll my eyes because of a massive scientific blunder. Hans Schantz hangs out with the superversive crowd, as far as I know.

    As for why so many panels are publishing and promotion focussed, a lot of self-published authors (and not just them, remember Larry Correia’s complaints that Worldcon wasn’t publishing focussed) apparently expect that SFF conventions are mainly about publishing and writing topics and don’t quite get the concept of a con, where fans gather out of the love for the genre.

    And conventions for self-publishers are usually focussed mainly on writing and particularly business matters. There are a couple of those. The 20Booksto50K conferences are probably the best known, but there’s also Inkers Con (for which I was graciously given a 50 US-dollar off coupon and when I went to check out their prices, a ticket cost more, even with the 50 dollars off, than my attending membership for Chicon), SFFCon (which I suspect was started in response to Worldcon not being “professional” enough) and others. Some of those cons put their panels online and while it’s possible to glean the occasional nugget of useful information, I vastly prefer Worldcon and other fan-run cons. BTW, the most value I ever got out of one of those self-publisher cons was a YouTube recording of a 20Booksto50K panel about post-apocalyptic fiction, which so infuriated me that I set out to write a story that was the exact opposite of those pronouncements.

    Nonetheless, I do wish BasedCon well.

  32. @Cat Eldridge – “I think they have a fundamental misunderstanding of what a con is.”

    Thank you, thank you, thank you.

    As did the puppies. Both groups seem to see in-gatherings as sales opportunities, like going to a family reunion to pitch your latest MLM scheme.

    ((But saying they aren’t fans would be exclusionary gatekeeping, right?)

  33. Sadly, I can’t wish BasedCon well. Given the current state of the American right, I must associate “being sick of woke politics” with the rather dire things coming from the GOP in 2021. For example, take a look at the proposed Texas abortion law. But I digress.

  34. Tom Weiss wrote “SF/F should has a huge tent, and there’s room enough underneath for everyone.”

    Yes, SF should be a big tent. In fact, it’s been a big tent, so far as my personal exerience goes, for pretty much as long as I’ve been attending them, which started in 1972 or 1973.
    It does have flaws, among them learning over the past few years that its former understanding of “big tent” was not universally received as big tent (and working towards correcting that misunderstanding ever since), but:

    There are not “good people on both sides” in every debate. Inclusion does not have to include those who advocate against inclusion, and should not.

  35. One of those authors is/was on my kindle but not in the future, I think.

    Judging by both this and his recent tweets I’m thinking he really doesn’t like me.

    So sorry J.A. I’m going to spend time with my very good friend Murderbot instead.

  36. @Cat Eldridge

    They’re not hostile to conservative or traditional ideas or values, they’re just not interested in anything that they don’t think will sell well.

    That’s a bit of circular logic. Publishers are only interested in what they think will sell therefore only the works they publish are worth publishing. The books they publish sell well enough to earn a profit therefore only the books they sell are worth publishing.

    Publishing is centered in big cities and involves individuals that have been credentialed by universities and colleges that present a somewhat left-of-center perspective on the world. They also have a finite capacity for publishing new books. When presented with two mid-level books and only having room in their publishing schedule for one, which one do you think a publishing company will select? The one that affirms their culture or the one that challenges it?

    Alternatively, would they choose the next book in a series that has been well enough to cover the advance or a new book from a new author that might do better if that same new book challenges their culture?

    @Michael J. Lowrey

    I get the vibe of the kind of self-published mediocrity who attends fannish cons in order to get on panels, then at each panel, stack up copies of all their books and try to turn every comment into an excuse to push their book.

    That behavior isn’t unique to self-publishing. I’ve watched/listened to panels where there was an author that used (as in ignored) every question as an opportunity to turn the discussion towards their favorite hobbyhorse.

    @Meredith

    PS. Peeps, whether you’ve heard of someone or not doesn’t dictate their worth

    Indeed. +1. And similar such comments.

    @Iphinome

    Judging by both this and his recent tweets I’m thinking he really doesn’t like me.

    Examples? I checked his Twitter t/l and didn’t see any Tweets from him that were overly egregious in the last few days.

    Regards,
    Dann
    On the whole the English intelligentsia have opposed Hitler, but only at the price of accepting Stalin. – George Orwell

  37. steve davidson says Thank you, thank you, thank you.

    You’re welcome.

    As did the puppies. Both groups seem to see in-gatherings as sales opportunities, like going to a family reunion to pitch your latest MLM scheme.

    Yeah that’s my main kvetch with them. I’m not interested in spending time with anyone who’s primary reason for being with me is to sell me product. Don’t get me wrong — i buy a lot of product, too much product. But I like talking to people and that’s why I get together with other people. Product I can buy anywhere.

    ((But saying they aren’t fans would be exclusionary gatekeeping, right?)

    True. They’re just not my sort of fans.

    Now listening to Faith Hunter’s Junkyard Bargain

  38. ugh, that convention sounds way more political than the regular conventions. If you don’t want to hear about social justice issues, don’t go to those panels. The fact that they are promoting anti-choice, and other crap, would keep me away.

    I better go, I will be late for the panel on Afrofuturism!!!

  39. @Dann665 “That’s a bit of circular logic. Publishers are only interested in what they think will sell therefore only the works they publish are worth publishing. The books they publish sell well enough to earn a profit therefore only the books they sell are worth publishing.”

    Yes, it is, but it is not necessarily, not entirely, the fault of the editors but is instead mostly owing to the ascendancy of commodification over art.

    Where are the editors like Fred Pohl who brought us Cordwainer Smith, The Female Man and Dhalgren?

    They’re still out there, but instead of being told “if this flops you’ll never get to make independent choices again” they’re told “don’t make independent choices based on your knowledge of the field and your sense of what the readers want, choose what fits into our narrowly-defined set of profitable sales and help us stultify the growth of the field and undermine the reader’s ability to make new discoveries so that we don’t have to work very hard to justify our pay”.

    It used to be that marketing was handed a widget and figured out where it would appeal and how to make it so. Now they get to tell the inventors what the widget is going to be based on their (always outdated) market surveys.

    Editors no longer get to say “you will find a way to sell this”.

    (Please note that I personally can not think of a single time an editor like Frederik Pohl took a gamble on something and wasn’t right: even Russ’s Female Man was critically acclaimed and has had untold impact on the field; much else he championed was both financially and critically successful and more than made up for the financial disappointments of a surprisingly small number of works. But these days everything is being pushed towards immediate gratification…forget trends and history and prior body of success.)

    So yeah, that is circular logic that focuses on dollars and ROI and commodification and just about everything except the fact that writing ought to be treated as an art, not something stamped out by an automated cookie cutter.

  40. There is a certain sort of person (and the organizers of this event sound to me like they are such people) for whom everything is a cash transaction. That is, you never do anything unless it is profitable, and conversely, anything that does not generate a cash profit should never be done. It’s the kind of thinking that had someone assume that of course I was making Big Bucks chairing Worldcon, because nobody would ever do that much work without Getting Paid. When I said that bidding for and co-chairing the 2002 Worldcon cost me around $50,000* (admittedly spread over about nine years), they essentially said, “Wink-wink-nudge-nudge, we know you’re raking it in under the table, and all of those public statements of the convention revenue and expenses and governmental filings are Fake.”

    Many of the people who get into running genre conventions assuming that they’ll MAKEMONEYFAST end up having to run for the hills one step ahead of the sheriff coming to collect the debts.

    *Yes, a small amount of it in the final year was deductible against my income taxes as a charitable donation, but nobody does that much work solely to get a few hundred dollars’ worth of extra income tax refund. Besides, when I was reimbursed some of those final-year expenses from the convention surplus, I had to declare them as miscellaneous income and pay tax on it the following year anyway.

  41. Just my two cents about the con not related to the other isues, the ones that are fixable and could be problem for other cons, too:
    I don’t think the program sounds in any case interesting. One of the problems not mentioned allready seems to be that they want to be a con for writers (some of the pannels are only interesting to writers) or a con for readers of them. A small con with only one program track is difficult in another way than a big con were you have the problem that you have a lot of potential panelist but only that much space.
    I think it is fair to say that the programing could need a lot of work to be more interesting. (Not my cup of tea regardless)
    What I see here is that in the planning not a lot of taught got to the fans. They seem to me an aftertaught of the con, which is not a good idea.

    Re Dann: First of the book of a new writer is not in a fight with Steven King for shellspace. Big writers are allready planned in, then new writers get considered. I doubt that the decision is ofen between book a and book b and the more in acordance with the view of the one making the decision wins. And this is perhaps a German view, but it depends on how far right someone is, to determain if their chances are hurt. There are still a lot of conservatives writers published. Two thinks imho hurt writers: 1) Beeing dificult to work with (it is not a good idea to insult your publisher) and 2) Having so extrem views that publishing your work hurts the publisher.
    Re seeling their books. I would bet that writers who don’t push their book every minute are more succesful in getting sales then the other ones.

  42. @Dann665 what I find egregious are likely the things you cheer on.

    Did you note his retweets? Pictures of Texas Democrats in prison jumpsuits. Babylon frakking bee retweets about how other states are looking for ways to get rid of Democrats. Retweets of @MorlockP threads where he dismisses people for being “low status.”

    #Approximatly 300 words omitted#

    Anyway, his tweets and choice of tribal signifiers indicate that he doesn’t care for people like me. That’s fine, I can move on and he can do whatever it is he’s going to do.

  43. @Meredith: Between that and the Puppies and the various abortive attempts to form groups in opposition to the SFWA there does seem to be a heavy focus on professionals – and generally lead by professionals – rather than fannishness for fannishness’ sake when it comes to right wing fandom organising.

    It reality does confirm my impression that one of the major grievances of the Puppies and Puppy adjacent was monetary- they weren’t getting a chunk of the sweet, sweet publishing contracts, and since it couldn’t be a matter of taste, it had to be a conspiracy. In this view the Hugos were seen as publishing awards, designed to promote the favored authors.

    And to be a bit cynical, the Puppy crusade worked. It gave publicity to and supported the publishing efforts of several D-grade authors, and promoted at least one alt-rights publisher.

    The bottom line is that promoting factionalism is a profitable strategy for the alt-right. So there’s a good chance the creators of this con and the invited authors will make a profit.

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