The World Science Fiction Convention – or WorldCon – will be held this weekend in San Jose. But already Social Justice Warriors are resorting to a McCarthy-style approach towards anyone they wish to label as a “Nazi.”

In a Tweet from yesterday, the author of Gate Crashers, Patrick S. Tomlinson, threatened anyone who he felt was going to “disrupt” WorldCon. What does he plan to do? To put it simply, he says he’s going to label people and put them on blast online:

For the Nazis threatening to disrupt #worldcon2018 on Saturday.

-Many people, including me, will be escorting attendees into the building.

-You will each individually be watched, filmed, and photographed.

-Those photos and videos will be uploaded immediately.

-You will be known. — Patrick S. Tomlinson at WorldCon76 (@stealthygeek) August 16, 2018

But one has to ask, how would Patrick S. Tomlinson know who was a Nazi? I mean that label, rightfully, is a social weight that could ruin someone’s personal and professional life. So, of course, you have to be careful who you would claim was one, right?

It didn’t take long for people to question both his motives and means of identifying potential Nazis. The real question is, who could be considered something as vile as a Nazi? But instead of clarification, the Sci-Fi author just decided that everyone who didn’t agree was an “incel.”

For the pathetic little surge of incel twits who mistook this tweet as anything but a PSA, it isn't. It isn't an invitation for a lesson on what Nazi means today, or details on the escort plan. You're not owed anything, or welcome on my TL. — Patrick S. Tomlinson at WorldCon76 (@stealthygeek) August 17, 2018

It didn’t take much longer for someone to step up and inform him his inflammatory and dangerous commentary was going to be followed by silence:

I dont even know what this is about but my guy, your on the internet, youre not owed the public's silence just because you don't want to deal with it. Learn what a real Nazi was first before you start calling ppl such. Gtfo here with the tough guy act — KungFu-TakeOutMenu (@IroDayDream) August 17, 2018

Instead of taking what the user said, Patrick took a play right out of the SJW handbook and simply blocked the user for pointing out the obvious:

Oh, but I am owed your silence. Here, watch. — Patrick S. Tomlinson at WorldCon76 (@stealthygeek) August 17, 2018

Diversity & Comics‘ Richard Myer also pointed to how childish Patrick was behaving on Twitter. He rightfully pointed out that this isn’t how normal adults behave, you don’t just assume someone is something without any sort of evidence.

Do you realize how silly you sound to 99% of adults right now? https://t.co/emUnFmaJAX — Diversity & Comics (@DiversityAndCmx) August 17, 2018

Instead of addressing that point with a fair retort, Patrick chose to instead to claim that Myer wasn’t part of the 99% of adults in the following Tweet. Which is a nice way of saying he pulled the classic Kindergarten move of “No I’m not, you are!”

You are not part of 99% of adults and are not in any position to speak for them, child. — Patrick S. Tomlinson at WorldCon76 (@stealthygeek) August 17, 2018

Another user then pointed out Patrick’s own history if hypocrisy on the subject of race when he went after Jon Del Arroz for being a Trump supporter:

Oh neat! I love this game of name-calling! Let me try: You’re a racist because you used your white privilege to keep out @jondelarroz! What a swell game! — Amanda Lamela (@Lghtngfan) August 17, 2018

Which was followed by his attempt to absolve himself of his own actions by blaming the victim.

No, child. I did not. Jon used his poor behavior and decisions to keep himself out. — Patrick S. Tomlinson at WorldCon76 (@stealthygeek) August 17, 2018

Victim blaming, McCarthyism, and echo chambers have all become part of the general toolkit of the radical left. Both within the mediums of Entertainment as well as outside of it. As WorldCon opens this weekend, we can only hope that the radical push for violence and making false claims doesn’t give us another GenCon where we saw Youtuber The Quartering physically assaulted for the crime of WrongThink.

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