Battletech Blaine Pardoe, Battletech Author Cancelled For Conservative Political Belief

[Husky_Khan]

Battletech author Blaine Pardoe just posted an entry on his Wordpress blog about how he had to endure a multiyear long campaign of harassment, death threats, defamation and attempted character assassination and cancellation at the hands of an anonymous troll who tried to whip up LBGTQIA activists and the whole Woke Movement into destroying this guys career.

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He had to remain silent about the whole thing which seemed to be all motivated by Blaine Pardoe's very mild Conservative leanings. The campaign to cancel him was anything but mild however. This crazy person contacted his publishers, other authors, made fake accounts on social media and on forums and even sent death threats to this Author. Of course this troll was able to get other like minded useful idiots to carry water for this hate filled cancellation campaign too.

It took a while but it looks like they did manage to cancel Blaine Pardoe over having Conservative Political Opinions. He's no longer writing Battletech novels.

When my last BattleTech novel, No Substitute for Victory, was released by Catalyst in February, my stalker and a small handful of people once again complained to Catalyst, Topps, and Fanatics. They took numerous statements from my social media out of context to paint me as an “insurrectionist, a seditionist,” and other outright lies.

The smear campaign was led by the man who had threatened my life. I was told that Fanatics asked my publisher to “make this go away.”

My publisher’s solution was to inform me he would no longer publish my work.

I asked if he had verified that the protest was not a handful of people using sock accounts to make their cause appear larger. He told me he had not checked and that it didn’t matter anyway. It also didn’t matter that the quotes in question had been taken out of context or fabricated.

I noted how other Catalyst contract authors and artists voiced radical progressive opinions far more offensive than anything I had ever posted. My publisher indicated he would talk to some of them. Conservatives tend not to complain, while the Left sees offenses everywhere.

He informed me that my beliefs were alienating half of his customers. I pointed out that sales and ratings for my latest novel were on par with previous works. He then told me that sales didn’t matter.

I offered to write under a pseudonym like several of his other authors. He refused. Then I pointed out the most egregious aspect: “You are literally siding with a person that threatened the life of one of your most productive and popular authors.” Ignoring that, he had assured me that he would communicate his decision to release me to the fans. He never did.

https://amgreatness.com/2022/07/29/my-publisher-canceled-me-in-favor-of-an-activist-who-threatened-my-life/

Here is Catalyst Game Labs Admitting They Cancelled Him Because He Was an Outspoken Conservative On the Internet.

 

[Cherico]

It took a while but it looks like they did manage to cancel Blaine Pardoe over having Conservative Political Opinions. He's no longer writing Battletech novels.

https://amgreatness.com/2022/07/29/my-publisher-canceled-me-in-favor-of-an-activist-who-threatened-my-life/

you know what we need to find out who these people are and give them a taste of their own medicine.

 

[Blasterbot]

sad i was thinking of buying more models and such from them. Guess I will just be using ironwinds and 3-d print the rest. apparently he publishes non battletech related works too so I think I will look into purchasing some of those.

 

[PsihoKekec]

From what I heard it wasn't exactly a consultation, Topps basically told the CGL (who previously stood by Blaine) to drop him or they they are pulling the franchise.

 

[Cherico]

From what I heard it wasn't exactly a consultation, Topps basically told the CGL (who previously stood by Blaine) to drop him or they they are pulling the franchise.

yeah we live in a pretty shit world.

But I look around and see that the tide is ever so slowly turning, this was a loss yes but this isn't over.

 

[Culsu]

There I was naively thinking Battletech to be a refuge from all this shit.

 

[Lord Sovereign]

There I was naively thinking Battletech to be a refuge from all this shit.

I fear there is no refuge. There is nothing the left and their raging universalism boner will leave alone, so the only option is to drive them off.

 

[Cherico]

I fear there is no refuge. There is nothing the left and their raging universalism boner will leave alone, so the only option is to drive then off.

It is really frustraiting waiting for the Grill bois and Soccer moms to accept this but nothing changes until the slow horses cross the finish line.

 

[AnimalNoodles]

There I was naively thinking Battletech to be a refuge from all this shit.

There are no refuges.

If we want a place of our own, we need to build it, then zealously guard it. Build our own verse. create our own games and stories in it. And keep out the Enemy.

 

[Culsu]

Certainly sours my idea of doing some BTech battle maps for Catalyst...

 

[Bear Ribs]

There's something intensely ironic about this happening to the author of Betrayal of Ideals.

Edit: Went to get more info on this. The level of censorship is amazing. The Catalyst forums have the discussion hidden behind a registration banner.

Meanwhile there were multiple Reddit threads on the matter, one positive.

The one that supported Purdoe had nearly every post deleted for being "off-topic" and was locked afterwards.


Somehow the ones that are filled with hate for him are totes on-topic, even the ones that claim he's a secret Russian agent.

 

[Lord Sovereign]

Culturally speaking, the Left stole one Hell of a march. It really boggles the mind as to how the Right of yesteryear were so incompetent as to allow this to happen.

 

[Spartan303]

It took a while but it looks like they did manage to cancel Blaine Pardoe over having Conservative Political Opinions. He's no longer writing Battletech novels.

https://amgreatness.com/2022/07/29/my-publisher-canceled-me-in-favor-of-an-activist-who-threatened-my-life/

Here is Catalyst Game Labs Admitting They Cancelled Him Because He Was an Outspoken Conservative On the Internet.

Razorfist has a few choice words.

 

[Knowledgeispower]

Honestly the real question becomes how long it takes for them to start loosing money on BT and sell the rights to someone who actually cares about the IP.

 

[Culsu]

Btech's great strength these past years, and one of the reasons why it was on an uptick, was that it was apolitical with regards to the real world. It's why so many Warhammer peeps ended up in the fandom. Catalyst, or their higher ups, shitting the bed now by doing this is... baffling. The IP isn't big enough to piss off much of it's fan base; it's just not mainstream enough for those shenanigans!

 

[AnimalNoodles]

Btech's great strength these past years, and one of the reasons why it was on an uptick, was that it was apolitical with regards to the real world. It's why so many Warhammer peeps ended up in the fandom. Catalyst, or their higher ups, shitting the bed now by doing this is... baffling. The IP isn't big enough to piss off much of it's fan base; it's just not mainstream enough for those shenanigans!

They'll cut off their nose to spite their face if it means a good esg score.

 

[S'task]

They'll cut off their nose to spite their face if it means a good esg score.

All the companies involved here are Private corporations. They likely don't even HAVE ESG scores and even if they do, the ESG score is meaningless. This is more likely the typical "mistaking twitter for the world" that keeps happening.

 

[Spartan303]

Btech's great strength these past years, and one of the reasons why it was on an uptick, was that it was apolitical with regards to the real world. It's why so many Warhammer peeps ended up in the fandom. Catalyst, or their higher ups, shitting the bed now by doing this is... baffling. The IP isn't big enough to piss off much of it's fan base; it's just not mainstream enough for those shenanigans!

Cowardice. If you're afraid of the woke mob, it doesn't matter how big you are. If you give in they'll not only destroy you, but you'll be an accomplice in your own destruction. It is baffling, yes. But fear often doesn't have reason behind it.

 

[Cherico]

Culturally speaking, the Left stole one Hell of a march. It really boggles the mind as to how the Right of yesteryear were so incompetent as to allow this to happen.

The world wars basically turbo fucked western civilization and gave it civilizational PTSD.

 

[Jormungandr]

This is why more and more people are going Indie, from publishers to game developers.

The woketard mob will eventually cower the companies and corporations that previously "had your back" -- it's only a matter of time.

It's getting to the point where the primitive way of thinking that "might makes right" is going to come back into play -- you won't try to "cancel" someone if there is the very real threat of them turning up at your house and just shooting you. You won't try to harass/shame someone on the street if there's any chance they'll turn around and put you into the hospital for six weeks, regardless of the judiciary consequences for them.

And, frankly? I think we need it, if it's the only way to stop this madness. Turning the other cheek is just going to get the other cheek slapped now.

A lot of activists aren't going to be activists if they know there's a good chance they're going to be injured or suffer consequences that'll disrupt their lifestyles.