{"id":202,"date":"2021-12-30T16:50:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T16:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patrickmay.me\/?p=202"},"modified":"2021-12-30T16:51:01","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T16:51:01","slug":"discon-iii-prefers-china-over-raytheon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.patrickmay.me\/index.php\/2021\/12\/30\/discon-iii-prefers-china-over-raytheon\/","title":{"rendered":"DisCon III Prefers China Over Raytheon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a stunning display of hypocrisy, the <a href=\"https:\/\/discon3.org\/news\/statement-and-apology-on-discon-iii-sponsorship\/\">chair of DisCon III apologizes<\/a> for accepting sponsorship from Raytheon, days after Chengdu, China was selected as the site for the 2023 WorldCon.  Apparently a dictatorship that is running actual concentration camps for Uyghur Muslims and implementing oppressive anti-free speech policies in Hong Kong is morally acceptable but the space exploration branch of a defense contractor is not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead of returning the money, the DisCon III leadership chose to make a donation to an unnamed &#8220;organization dedicated to peace.&#8221;  Ethics is clearly not these organizers&#8217; strong suit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a stunning display of hypocrisy, the chair of DisCon III apologizes for accepting sponsorship from Raytheon, days after Chengdu, China was selected as the site for the 2023 WorldCon. Apparently a dictatorship that is running actual concentration camps for Uyghur Muslims and implementing oppressive anti-free speech policies in Hong Kong is morally acceptable but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Madi-3g","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickmay.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickmay.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickmay.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickmay.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickmay.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickmay.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickmay.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickmay.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickmay.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickmay.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}