Helix again

In followup to this post it seems more than one author is requesting their stories be withdrawn from the site. In at least one case:

Sanders flounced off in a huff, stating that the story "never did make any sense" and that he only accepted it to "please those who admire your work"--what altruism!--"and also because (notorious bigot that I am) I was trying to get more work by non-Caucasian writers." If I were a writer currently submitting to Helix, I would kind of worry about that bit--all things considered, if a story really does suck, I'd rather have it rejected so I can fix it.

He then played psychic and claimed that I only asked for the story to be withdrawn "because, let's get real here, you feel the need to distance yourself from someone who is in disfavor with the kind of babbling PC waterheads whose good opinion is so important to you, and whom you seem to be trying to impress with this little grandstand play."

He closed with: "There was a suggestion I was going to make, but it is probably not physically practicable."

There is this too, although it seems the pages on the site itself have been taken down entirely now [Edit: Screencap available here].

This post suggests some interesting links between the behaviour of people called out on racism with stages of denial.

And I link to posts here and here because I like seeing people I respect (the others were previously unknown to me) not going along with this sort of thing.

And back to reading those latter three.

ETA: Ick, sexist too. Unsurprising by now.