This is why Hacker News should stick to Hacker News.
It's ridiculous to think Ender's Game has anything to do with "Nazi superiority", whatever that is.
I read the book as a kid and liked it immensely. As an adult I discovered that Orson Scott Card is a Mormon and that a lot of people just have blind ignorant hatred of Mormons. This was a sad discovery, but it did have the benefit of allowing me to dismiss their diatribes.
I dislike him because of his stated, explicit bias against LGBT folk, and his frequent rants about the "gay agenda". True, I think his Mormonism motivates these things, but many if not most Mormons feel differently (I have no idea the exact statistics), and were he still Mormon and not a homophobic bigot, then I wouldn't have a problem with him.
I also liked Ender's Game as a kid. I like it now. I just think the author is a jackass.
I'm Mormon, and OSC isn't representative, especially of younger generations. As Christians we should be welcoming to everyone, and I have a very hard time reconciling OSC's statements to his professed beliefs.
In fact, we consistently have had guidance from Church leaders about being welcoming and kind to everyone, and even some rather pointed reminders about following that guidance in regards to LGBT. You'd be hard pressed to find statistics, especially any that had a representative poll outside of Utah.
Of course, he is crazy in lots of other ways - read any of his political articles. He seems to revel in stating things in insensitive ways, and then likes to play the martyr afterwards.
Nonetheless, his fiction is almost always excellent, so I avidly read him.
You would be hard-pressed to find a serious contingent of people who dislike Card because he's a Mormon and not because he's a homophobic authoritarian and more than a little bit of a jerk.
It's ridiculous to think Ender's Game has anything to do with "Nazi superiority", whatever that is.
I read the book as a kid and liked it immensely. As an adult I discovered that Orson Scott Card is a Mormon and that a lot of people just have blind ignorant hatred of Mormons. This was a sad discovery, but it did have the benefit of allowing me to dismiss their diatribes.