That is one scary story. To be fair to WisCon (I have no need to be fair to Republican registration-shredders), all of the angst that I was aware of was after the convention and fomented by one particular person.
Maggie Hogarth haikujaguar came to WisCon for the first time and felt extremely marginalized by the following facts: there were anti-Bush signs posted around, there was an anti-Bush button/bumper sticker seller inside near registration for some of Saturday, and Ellen Klages made an anti-Bush joke at the auction.
She made a lot of noise about this, some in her own journal, some in wiscon, some on the Broad Universe mailing list, etc., etc. I started out at least mildly sympathetic, but began to notice that she rejected every suggestion for how she could participate in changing the dynamic, and continued to take a victimized stance of "someone else should fix this because people were mean to me" (paraphrase, of course).
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Date: 2004-10-13 04:15 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-13 04:59 am (UTC)"If we do not suppress the Detroit vote we're going to have a tough time in this election."
--John Pappageorge (Republican, MI state rep) Sept 2004
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Date: 2004-10-13 08:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-15 03:10 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-15 05:30 am (UTC)In this context ...
sure.
Maggie Hogarth
She made a lot of noise about this, some in her own journal, some in
*sigh*